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Candidate Night will feature MISD and MCAD races in a nonpartisan forum
MIDLAND Campaign signs can tell voters a name. Mailers can deliver a message. But on Tuesday, September 15, Midland residents will have an opportunity to hear directly from the people asking for their vote. The Permian Basin Board of REALTORS (PBBOR), 3114 Sunburst Drive, will ho...
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Odessan killed in rollover Monday morning
A 30-year-old Odessa man was killed Monday morning in a rollover crash on US 385. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Francisco Roque Benitez was driving north on 385 in a GMC Denali when he veered into the center median for unknown reasons near mile marker 344 ar...
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Woman accused of sexually assaulting 3-year-old
An Odessa woman was arrested Friday after being accused of sexually assaulting her girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter during a bath. According to an Ector County Sheriff’s Office report, deputies were dispatched to Medical Center Hospital on Friday to meet with the mother of the ch...
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Man accused of kidnapping, threatening former wife
A 41-year-old Odessa man was arrested last Wednesday night after his former wife told Ector County Sheriff’s deputies he held a knife to her throat and told her he was going to kill her. According to an ECSO report released Monday, a 47-year-old woman told deputies she was walkin...
safety
Motorcycle passenger killed in crash
A 26-year-old Burnet woman was killed early Sunday morning in a two-vehicle crash in Ector County. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Mindy Lane Harris was on the back of a Harley Davidson motorcycle when a 22-year-old Midland man traveling west on East Cottonwoo...
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schools
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK: Bronchos still 2-0 after last week
The good news for the Odessa High football team? Last week’s game against San Antonio Johnson won’t officially count. That’s because only one half of the game was played. For it to officially count as a loss, the teams would’ve needed to play one play in the second half. However,...
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Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas water agency to penalize data centers that don’t report their water usage
Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a press conference at the Texas Department of Emergency Management headquarters in Austin on Aug. 31, 2026. Credit: Jacob Lujan/The Texas Tribune By Alejandra Martinez and Alex Ford, The Texas Tribune Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Water Develo...
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Ryans: Texans must cut explosive plays after giving up 36 points to the Bills
By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON Sunday’s shocking defensive debacle by the Houston Texans in a 36-31 loss to the Buffalo Bills proved what coach DeMeco Ryans always preaches to his team. “You have to put your stamp each and every year on who you’re going to be,” he sai...
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Man pleads not guilty in the hanging death of a Mississippi woman
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man charged with murder in the hanging death of a Black woman in Mississippi pleaded not guilty Monday during his first court appearance. The body of Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in Jackson, the state capital, o...