Ector County Commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday for a regular meeting, which was scheduled this Thursday rather than Tuesday due to Spring Break. Several items on the agenda deal with the ...

Ron Inge, the former chief investigator with the Ector County Medical Examiner's Office, was arrested last week on suspicion of child grooming, a third-degree felony. According to City of Odessa news ...

Ector County ISD Trustees voted 5-2 to approve a four-year contract for Keeley Boyer to become the superintendent of schools.

Martin A. Holguin Duran, 59, of Odessa, died in a two-vehicle collision on Loop 338. The crash remains under investigation.

The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a crash that left a Midland bicyclist dead last week. According to a ...

The crash happened at FM 1936 and Blair Street on Friday evening. Kroger CEO resigns after investigation into 'personal ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent details the decision to escort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White ...

The Odessa Police Department arrested two people earlier this month after a seven-month-old tested positive for cocaine and ...

Measles is highly contagious and can spread from one person to nine out of 10 people close to them, according to the CDC, ...

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Measles has sickened nearly 150 mostly unvaccinated people in rural West Texas, and a school-age child has died.