def METHOD_NAME(text):
    """
    Textbox extractor function to preprocess and extract text
    Args:
        text: Raw Extracted Text from the News Article
    Returns:
        text: Preprocessed and clean text ready for analysis
    """
    text = text.lower()
    text = re.sub(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]', ' ', text)
    text = re.sub("(\\r|\r|\n)\\n$", " ", text)
    text = [text]
    return text