By FATIMA HUSSEIN The Associated Press WASHINGTON Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program, or s...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - A Special Report will air Wednesday as September marks Suicide Prevention Month, a time to honor those we’ve lost to suicide, remember those affected, and raise awareness about suicide prevention. An Odessa-based nonprofit is working to do that year-round w...
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ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) - A man has been arrested for multiple sexual assault charges in Ector County. According to the arrest affidavit, on Wednesday, September 2, an Ector County sheriff investigators responded to Medical Center Hospital about a sexual assault. When the investigat...
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President Donald Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, shortly after he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end nearly seven-month war. Trump told reporters about the mee...
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MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Polo grew increasingly powerful Tuesday and could gain more intensity as it skirts Mexico's southwestern coast as a Category 5 cyclone, weather experts said. Polo was an “extremely dangerous” storm with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (290 kph), the Miam...
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming “increasingly cavalier, dangerous and risk accepting,” as his war in Ukraine drags on and as he seeks to divide Western allies, NATO's deputy commander in Europe said Tuesday. Air Chief Marshal Sir John Stringer...
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The Odessa Police Department is advising motorists to avoid Dixie just south of 2nd St. as both southbound and northbound lanes are currently shut down. Please use alternative routes as power lines are currently blocking the road. The post OPD issues Dixie traffic alert appeared ...
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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer No. 11 Texas Tech is 3-0 for the second straight season, something the Red Raiders haven’t done since a three-season run 13 years ago. This season has a different vibe than last year’s run to the College Football Playoff. “We don’t look the same,...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Texas was back in a federal detention center Tuesday after being taken to a hospital for a second time with a bullet still lodged in his back, according to his attorney. A federal ...
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Crude Oil: 94.59 (-1.19). Nymex MTD AVG: 96.9541. Natural Gas: 2.965 (+0.129). Gasoline: 3.4875 (+0.0176). Spreads: October/November (+4.07) November/December (+2.54). Plains WTI Posting: 91.07 (-1.19). The post DAILY OIL PRICE: September 22, 2026 appeared first on Odessa America...
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By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer Communications failures that snarled hundreds of flights across the Northeast on Monday have put the spotlight back on the aging systems that air traffic controllers rely on in the U.S. Congress already handed the Federal Aviation Administrat...
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Sul Ross State University received almost $3 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Labor through the SRSU RISE Strengthening Institutions Program, a five-year initiative designed to expand workforce readiness, educational opportunity and institutional capacity acro...
