• Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes?

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Lubbock, Texas

• Lubbock accountant Charles Perry unseated Delwin Jones, the oldest member of the Texas House of Representatives, in the Republican runoff held on April 13, 2010?
• Lubbock attorney Warlick Carr filed some thirty civil suits within 24 hours against the Pecos, Texas, financier Billie Sol Estes?
• Edwin "Big Ed" Wilkes, a Lubbock, Texas, radio talk show host, and a colleague, Bud Andrews, produced the first albums of the country comedian Jerry Clower?
• Bidal Aguero, a civil rights activist in Lubbock, published El Editor, the oldest-running Hispanic newspaper in Texas?
• J.T. Alley, police chief of Lubbock, Texas, vowed in 1970 to shoot looters taking advantage of his city's devastating tornadoes?
• Kevin O'Brien, an Independent Baptist minister in Lubbock, Texas, was among the founders of the fundamentalist Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City?
• Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the mayor of Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the West Texas city faced devastating tornadoes in May 1970?
• Virgil Johnson, the lead singer of the doo wop group The Velvets, retired from his career as a school principal and is now a deejay in Lubbock, Texas?
• the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of Lubbock, Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?

Marfa, Texas

• the Prada Store in Marfa, Texas, is never open?

Amarillo, Texas

• Texas produces the most helium in the United States, all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo?
• a rules dispute during the first all-cowgirl rodeo, held in 1948 in Amarillo, Texas, led to the formation of the first rodeo association for women?
• author Laura Vernon Hamner, informally known as "Miss Amarillo", lived over thirty years in an Amarillo, Texas hotel?
• on the debut episode of Man v. Food, host Adam Richman completed the 72-ounce (2 kg) Big Texan challenge at The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas?