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LUBBOCK, Texas — It was a petrifying morning for Brynn Stewart – who escaped an attempted kidnapping at 9 o’clock this morning right down the street from Rush Elementary School.

“I was just in doubt, like, you always see them on Facebook, but you never think it’s actually gonna happen to you,” said Stewart.

Stewart was walking on 17th and Salem when she felt like a man wearing a hat and a mask was following her. She crossed the street to get out of his way, but then followed her.

“You don’t ever know how you’re actually going to react in one of those situations until you’re in that situation,” said Stewart.

It wasn’t long after that he quickly approached her and said ‘Are you scared?’ before grabbing her from behind. Stewart kicked and screamed to get away from him — and luckily she did. 

She saw a Ring doorbell on a nearby home and ran there to make sure the situation was caught on camera. 

Read the full article published on everythinglubbock.com on March 16, 2021.

LUBBOCK, Texas — More local pharmacies have received doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week. 

“We’re just so happy to get people vaccinated and hopefully get out of the pandemic and just have a lot less deaths and hospitalizations from this disease,” said Chris Hobart, Pharmacist in Charge at Twin Oaks Pharmacy.

Twin Oaks, Highland and Slaton Pharmacies each received 100 doses, and they were hopeful about what that means for the future of this pandemic.

“It felt like a sense of relief,” said Benjamin Xie, a pharmacist at Highland Pharmacy. “It’s something that we’ve been waiting, and everyone has been working very diligently on.”

Pharmacists said a lot of folks were interested in getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine because it only required one dose.

“There was actually a lot of people that were waiting for the Johnson & Johnson,” said Hobart. “That’s about half the people we’ve done so far, that were waiting specifically for the one shot that may have had some issues with vaccines in the past or things like that and wanted to do this shot instead.”

Read the full article on everythinglubbock.com, published March 11, 2021.

LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Parks and Wildlife officials have asked the public to look out for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The neurological disease has spread throughout deer in Texas, attacking their brains and causing them to act almost like zombies before eventually killing them.

“It overwhelms the population and pretty well turns these deer in zombies,” said Judd Blanchard, a local hunting guide.

It can sometimes take up to two years for symptoms to show in deer, making the disease especially insidious because it can be difficult to track before then. 

“The deer are real skinny, or it looks like they’re foaming out of their mouth, and kind of like they’re wandering around lost, like they just, they have no sense of direction,” said Blanchard.

If it is not caught early and contained, the disease can decimate populations.

Read the full article on everythinglubbock.com, published March 7, 2021.