LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – On Daybreak Today, <\/p>\n
Creighton defends higher education policies <\/p>\n
Brandon Creighton is preparing to take over as chancellor of Texas Tech University System next week He replaces Dr. Tedd Mitchell, who will hold his final meeting as chancellor today with the Texas Board of Regents WATCH: Abner Euresti sits down with Texas Tech Chancellor-elect Brandon Creighton<\/a><\/p>\n New veterans cemetery delayed<\/p>\n The grand opening of the West Texas State Veterans Cemetery is being postponed due to construction delaysThere is no word on when the cemetery will open Details here: Opening of West Texas State Veterans Cemetery postponed due to construction delays<\/a><\/p>\n Dozens ill after ammonia leak <\/p>\n Dozens remain hospitalized after a tanker truck leaked ammonia gas into a hotel in Weatherford, Oklahoma Authorities evacuated 500 people from the area and 11 are in critical condition Read the latest here: Ammonia gas leak from tanker truck sickens dozens of people, forces evacuations<\/a><\/p>\n Lindsey Halligan dismissal hearing <\/p>\n Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a federal judge to dismiss the case against them They say Lindsey Halligan\u2019s appointment as acting U.S. attorney was illegal Read the latest here: James Comey and Letitia James press for dismissal of their cases, challenge prosecutor\u2019s appointment<\/a><\/p>\n Government reopening challenges <\/p>\n The government is now working to provide back pay to more than one million federal employees Airlines are still dealing with delays as air traffic controllers return to work Read more here: Federal workers question whether the longest government shutdown was worth their sacrifice<\/a><\/p>\n For more news, local and national, stick with KCBD on its free app and website; just look in the News<\/a> section.<\/p>\n As always, be sure to join Angie Winn<\/a>, Joshua Ramirez<\/a> and Steve Divine<\/a> for your top headlines. Download the free KCBD NewsChannel 11 app, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – On Daybreak Today, Creighton defends higher education policies Brandon Creighton is preparing to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2629,319,251,168,170,169,2632,2631,2630,2053],"class_list":["post-49472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-daybreak-today","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-morning-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-state-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}