Agriculture

• With prices up, more farmers may start planting peanuts

Anniversaries

• Mr. and Mrs. Cobb
• Mr. and Mrs. Gonzales
• Mr. and Mrs. Kerr
• Mr. and Mrs. Hasie III
• Mr. and Mrs. Messer
• Mr. and Mrs. Gonzales

Business

• Commercial Construction Permits
• Residential Construction Permits
• Business Calendar
• Bankruptcy filings
• Convention Calendar
• Why are toys selling out? Might be mommy blog buzz
• New sales tax licenses
• Business Bulletin Board
• Praters sets new food choices
• Recalls this week
• Chamber event
• Get ready to bring home post-Christmas bargains
• Pros see stocks up in 2012, but also big risks, too
• Investors learn lessons in 2011 on hot stocks, IPOs
• Technology: 'Portal 2,' 'Skyrim' top thrilling year in video games
• Top business story in 2011: Europe financial crisis
• 2011 showed small but steady changes in employee health insurance plans

Death Notices

• Death Notices

Editorial / Columnists

• Greenberg: Harlon Voyles schooled all of us in grid game
• Cepeda: Hispanics blessed with no fewer, no more bad apples than others
• Thomas: Celebrate Christmas reaching out to families who've lost loved ones
• Pettit: Memories make Christmas more than a holiday

Editorial / Letters

• Letter: Perry can double-dip, but it's denied teachers
• Letter: Christians came lately to celebrate Christmas
• Other Views:
• Letter: Good to see sane voice taking culture to task
• Letter of the Day: Lost wallet finds some of city's great folks
• Letter: Texans shortchanged when they won division

Editorials

• Our View: Christmas brings out best in people in spirit of peace, goodwill, sharing
• Quick Opinion
• Area Opinions

Entertainment

• Entertainment Briefs

Filed online

• Pope's plea for peace this Christmas marred by Muslim bombing of Catholic church
• Tests on newborn infant formula blamed in Mo. baby's death shows no trace of bacteria
• Obama and his challengers fighting to win over unhappy American middle class voters
• Italian government hunts down women with rupture-prone French silicone breast implants
• Spiraling food prices in Kenya leave HIV families to choose between medicine and food
• Victims claiming health issues from 9/11 smoke, dust must decide on dropping lawsuits
• SC Army veteran still eager to donate blood as he turns 96 marking 75 years of giving
• In GOP race for presidential nomination, wives and children pitching in as voting nears
• Decades later, secrets from space spy satellite program of Cold War era finally revealed
• Royal grandchildren visit Prince Philip at hospital as he recovers from heart procedure
• Texas police find 7 dead in Dallas-area apartment

Life

• Many kinds of best-sellers on the bookshelves in 2011
• Tips to keep your pets safe during holiday travel
• Holiday season can bring in the creepy crawlies
• Autism-friendly Santas a hit at malls, parties
• Five movies that may not seem like Christmas movies
• 1941 fruitcake in Ohio sells for $525; money to benefit homeless
• Downsize, simplify to ease garden workload

Life / Columnists

• Levelland started with a single store and a small courthouse
• Annie: 12 days of Christmas items add up to be quite pricey
• Dromgoole: How the lost Texas buffalo heard was preserved

Local News

• Community Briefs
• Despite recent snowfall, Lubbock not normally known for White Christmas
• Local family continues Christmas tradition of volunteering at Salvation Army
• Christmas on the margins
• Goodfellows contributors
• From The A-J's Pages

National News

• Across The Nation
• Obamas spend low-key Christmas Eve in Hawaii
• Nation briefs
• Unprovoked attacks at heart of 'Knockout King'

Not For Web

Obituaries

• Lena Burleson
• Claudell Applegate Hardeman
• Anne Robison Huffman
• Bobby Lee Hughes
• Oscar Knowles
• Dorothy Mae Arnold Lamb
• Johnny Joe Martinez
• Elvin Ray "Fuzzy" Moore

Sports

• Leafs coach gets contract extension
• Dirk, Kidd help Mavs raise championship banner
• Missouri, UNC meet in Independence Bowl
• Packers win, clinch No. 1 seed
• LeBron's 37 lifts Heat past Mavs 105-94
• NBA season finally set to tip off on Christmas
• Vikings RB Peterson hurts knee against Redskins
• NFL Roundup: Blocked field goals, penalties doom Chiefs in OT loss
• Defending champs rise from worst to first
• Late 4th-quarter touchdown sends Southern Mississippi over Nevada at Hawaii Bowl

Sports / High School / Football

• Eight Plainsmen, one Westerner on 2-5A's first team
• Eight Plainsmen, one Westerner on 2-5A's first team

Technology

• Personal finance tech trends for 2012
• TechBits
• Cellphone towers fade into landscape
• Review: Take the time to curate Facebook Timeline
• Review: 'Rocksmith' the grown up 'Rockband'
• Speak and these apps will listen and transcribe
• Give your plasma's pixels some R&R

Texas

• Christmas card rests for first time in 61 years
• Lawmakers: patients need better protection
• Officeholders tap pensions to run
• Texas man pulls gun, chases wrong guy
• Texas and region briefs
• Last combat troops out of Iraq back at Fort Hood
• Pearl Harbor survivor ashes interred at battleship
• Lost last month, blind dog gets home for Christmas

Uncategorized

World

• Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem
• Around the World
• Troops hit protesters marching into Yemen capital