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The Odessa Police Department is searching for a man suspected of using a stolen credit card. According to an OPD news release, a man used the victim’s credit card information to make approximately $4,000 worth of fraudulent purchases at the Verizon located at 4041 E. 42nd St. Any...
The Odessa City Council will consider accepting a 5-acre parcel of land from P Bar Parks Bell Ranch for a new fire station during its regular meeting on Tuesday. According to materials provided to the council, the Bell family’s donation would allow the city to build a new station...
AUSTIN Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitive Anthony Dewayne Oliver, a violent repeat offender with a lengthy criminal history, is this month’s Featured Fugitive. The reward for information leading to his arrest is increased to $4,000 during September if the tip is received this month. A...
Two Odessa men were arrested Friday after being accused of attacking another man with a knife and a rake handle over a parking space. According to an Odessa police report, officers were dispatched to Clifford Street shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday for a disturbance. On their way ...
MIDLAND, Texas (KOSA) - The Permian Basin Petroleum Association calls to support “Sponsor a Fire Truck.” The Midland Fire Department’s ongoing effort to transition away from firefighting foam containing PFAS, most commonly know as “forever chemicals”. Through its “ Sponsor a Fire...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gunfire could be heard throughout a downtown Minneapolis apartment building as police responded to an active shooting Wednesday that left three people dead, including the suspect, and five others wounded, authorities said. The five wounded by gunfire included t...
The Odessa Police Department is investigating a theft from Northern Tool + Equipment. According to an OPD news release, a man stole approximately $572 worth of merchandise from Northern Tool + Equipment, 6151 TX-191. Anyone who recognizes the suspect shown in the surveillance foo...
AUSTIN The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is stepping up enforcement efforts for Labor Day weekend. To keep everyone safe this holiday weekend, more Troopers will be out on the roads, including for the Operation Crash Awareness Reduction Effort (CARE), which runs Sept. 4...
BERLIN (AP) — An explosion near a German train station followed by the discovery of a suspicious object caused police to temporarily close the transport hub in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday morning. Later in the morning, police said the suspicious object had been ide...
STUART, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods plans to change his not guilty plea in a DUI case stemming from a rollover crash in Florida, according to court documents filed Tuesday. In March, Woods' Land Rover clipped a truck, rolled onto its side and the legendary golfer was arrested, offici...
Deadly flooding at the Grand Canyon is damaging the area's economy, with a washed-out pipeline severing the South Rim's water supply and shutting down lodging at the popular tourist vista for an indefinite period. The national park remained open Tuesday but tourists who planned t...
NEW YORK (AP) — The woman killed in a random stabbing in Times Square was a Bank of America employee, the bank confirmed Tuesday. Police identified her and the attacker, who was killed in a confrontation with officers shortly after the rampage. The woman who died, Erin Piacenti, ...
The Ross fire started in Palo Pinto County on Aug. 24, 2026 and has since grown to more than 80,000 acres across Palo Pinto and Jack counties. Credit: A. Turner/Texas A&M AgriLife By Alejandra Martinez and Alex Nguyen, The Texas Tribune FORT WORTH Over a week since the Ross Fire ...
Odessa police are searching for a man on suspicion of criminal mischief. According to an Odessa Police Department news release, a man poured an unknown substance into the gas tank of a vehicle while it was parked in the 800 block of E. 8th St. Approximately $3,150 worth of repair...
By BEN FINLEY The Associated Press WASHINGTON The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday and Tehran fired missiles and drones in response as hostilities flare once again in an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months. The U.S. strikes followed others on Sunday ...
By STEVE MEGARGEE AP Sports Writer CBS NFL analyst and former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has pleaded no contest to a charge of operating while intoxicated and has issued a statement apologizing for the actions that led to his July arrest. Romo was arrested July 23 follo...
U.S. and Mexican officials announced the arrest of a key member of one of the leading factions of the Sinaloa cartel.
GENEVA (AP) — A suspect has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a rave in northern Switzerland that left one person dead and five wounded, police said Monday. The 43-year-old Swiss citizen was detained shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, police in Aargau canton (state) said in a ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before. SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-f...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani nurse who rescued the sole surviving newborn from a hospital nursery fire that killed 14 other infants will receive one of the country’s most prestigious civil awards. Fire engulfed Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, a major government hospital i...
DHADING, Nepal (AP) — Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in flood-affected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River. Flood warning notices were sent to people's phones early Sunday as rescu...
British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos was deported to the United Kingdom after his arrest by American immigration authorities, U.S. officials said Saturday. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Yiannopoulos was returned to his home country Friday after being ac...
FILE – CBS broadcaster Tony Romo, left, calls the game during the second half of a NFL football wild card playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos in Orchard Park, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus, File) The Associated Press Tony Romo is facing thr...
AUSTIN An Arizona man will soon be extradited to Texas on capital murder charges after modern forensic testing identified him as the person responsible for a 1981 sexual assault and murder. The suspect, Kelly Lee Brower, 68, was arrested on Aug. 19 in Cottonwood, Ariz. According ...
A 17-year-old Odessan accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in February is now accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. According to an Odessa Police Department report, the younger girl told authorities on Feb. 9 that Jessie McCafferty, a friend, sexually as...
MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - A man was arrested by the TAG Center - Permian in Midland for federal and drug-related charges on Wednesday. TAG Center members conducted a traffic stop on Joseph Patterson in the 5000 block of State Highway 349 in Midland County. Patterson was arrest...
As Texans gather with friends and family to celebrate Labor Day and the end of summer, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is reminding motorists to always drive sober. Sadly, Texas saw a significant spike in crash fatalities that were drug- or alcohol-related over las...
MIDLAND COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) - Members of the Texas Anti-Gang Center – Permian Basin arrested Luis Greenhalgh on Wednesday after finding his connection to a hit-and-run earlier that day. The release said Greenhalgh, who authorities described as a documented gang member, was invol...
The Ross fire started in Palo Pinto County on Aug. 24, 2026 and has since grown to more than 80,000 acres across Palo Pinto and Jack counties. Credit: A. Turner/Texas A&M AgriLife By Alejandra Martinez, The Texas Tribune FORT WORTH The Ross Fire has grown into one of the largest ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general whose forces besieged the Bosnian capital for several years in the 1990s and carried out the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, died Thursday while serving a life sentence for his crimes, U.N. offici...
A 41-year-old Odessa man who led police officers on a high speed chase through Odessa late Monday night is facing two counts of kidnapping and several other charges, according to the Odessa Police Department. Shortly before 11 p.m. Monday, dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call and th...
An Odessa mom accused of failing to report the sexual assault of her child was arrested last week. According to an Ector County Sheriff’s Department report released Wednesday, a woman told deputies on Aug. 8 that she’d learned her niece had been sexually assaulted around 3 p.m. t...
An Odessa woman was arrested Friday after her common-law spouse told Ector County Sheriff’s deputies she hit him in the face with a frying pan and sliced him with a knife. According to an ECSO report, deputies were dispatched to a disturbance in the 7500 block of West 42nd Street...
A 22-year-old Midland man and convicted felon was arrested in San Angelo after a Tom Green County sheriff's deputy discovered drugs and three firearms during a traffic stop on August 22....
Odessa Fire Rescue responded to a grass, trash and old vehicle fire Tuesday in the area of 57th Street and West County Road. According to a news release, the fire began while someone was burning trash and spread to an adjacent property, damaging vehicles. OFR crews contained the ...
By REBECCA SANTANA The Associated Press WASHINGTON U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July, the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration, according to new figures. The spike in immigration arrests shows that...
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PRESIDIO, Texas (KOSA) - Deputies arrested a passenger found to have an outstanding warrant connected to a homicide case after a traffic stop on Highway 67 on August 24. According to the Presidio County Chief Deputy Sheriff, deputies stopped a car around 7:00 p.m. after it was se...
ECTOR COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - An Ector County man was arrested for discharging a firearm Saturday night near the 2400 block of FM 1936. According to the Ector County Sheriff's Office, ESCO deputies heard gunshots fired while conducting a nearby traffic stop near the 2400 bloc...
ANDREWS COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - An Andrews man was arrested by the Andrews County Sheriff's Department Saturday on multiple felony charges. The man was identified as 34-year-old Nicholas Powell. According to the ACSO, deputies received a call from the FBI Midland Resident Age...
National Night Out is scheduled from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, October 6. The deadline to register is Friday, October 2, at 5 p.m. Visit tinyurl.com/mwcdr6jn to register or email odessapd@odessa-tx.gov with any questions. National Night Out is designed to heighten crime and drug preventi...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The bookends of California Gov. Gavin Newsom's nearly eight years in office have been defined by a crucial question: Who should cover the cost of damage from wildfires caused by utility equipment? The most destructive wildfire in state history, a blaze t...
The Odessa Police Department is investigating a theft from H-E-B. According to an OPD news release, a man stole approximately $379 worth of merchandise from the H-E-B located at 2501 W. University. Anyone who recognizes the suspect shown in the surveillance footage is encouraged ...
A head-on collision between a pickup truck and a semi-truck on US-285 in Reeves County, Texas, left one man dead and another injured on Saturday morning....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police on Sunday arrested 72 people suspected of starting some of the recent forest and peatland fires as huge blazes in central and western parts of the country triggered a harmful cloud known as a choking haze. Indonesia has been battling fi...
ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - Odessa firefighters and Odessa police officers helped a driver stranded due to issues with their pickup truck this morning. The incident was captured in a video around 9:19 a.m. at 52nd Street and Grandview. Officers from the Odessa Police Department also a...
