Southwest

After a lengthy search, Texas Tech University has decided to keep interim chief financial officer Noel Sloan on a permanent basis.

A building damaged by the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing will be redeveloped with $4.75 million in tax-increment financing.

The Carlsbad, N.M., Municipal School District will ask voters to approve $60 million of bonds in a February election.

Budget weakness brings a Standard & Poor's downgrade to Sedgwick, Kan.'s, general obligation rating to BBB-plus from A-minus.

Phil Wilson, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation and former aide to Gov. Rick Perry, will become general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority Feb. 1.

Moody's Investors Service lowered the outlook on its Baa1 rating for Galveston Wharves to negative, citing reduced cargo and passenger volumes.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court overturned state legislation that cut the state's personal income tax and provided $120 million for repairs to the Capitol.

Laredo Independent School District will refund lease-revenue bonds with long-term debt that does not carry the state's Permanent School Fund guarantee.

Arizona counties are organizing a 2014 effort to restore local highway and road funds lost during the budget crises of the past five years.

Moody's Investors Service on Monday upgraded the sales-tax-supported debt of Corpus Christi, Texas, to A1 from A2, citing an increase in pledged revenues.