THE STORY: Records show that Santiago Lara Jimenez telephoned the Ector County Sheriff’s Office at least eight times over the past two years to report multiple broken windows, property damage and other misdeeds that he blamed on the two neighbo...
THE STORY: The city of Midland has settled a police brutality lawsuit with a 69-year-old woman who sought millions of dollars in damages after she was forcibly detained and injured by a veteran police officer at the Midland International Airport....
THE STORY: Some elected officials and candidates for office have not been paying their property taxes. The Ector County Appraisal District is suing Stellar Media Inc., which City Councilman Benjamin Velasquez has claimed to own. Abraham Torres of the...
THE STORY: The FBI has unearthed new evidence in the Yolanda Jean Madden proceedings that could turn the contentious case on its head and land the Odessa woman back in federal prison before she is retried. Prosecutors said the evidence contradicts Ma...
THE STORY: Ector County’s 2010 Warrant Round-Up has been the most successful in its three years. Odessa City Councilman Benjamin Velasquez has even taken advantage of the offer....
THE STORY: Former Odessa resident, “Williard” was visited by a small group of U.S. marshals after they say he made violent threats on the Odessa American website....
THE STORY: New curriculum requirements for ECISD include four years of science and math....
THE STORY: CrossRoads Fellowship joined with Mid-Cities Church to bring in the nonprofit evangelical organization Silver Ring Thing and have the group put on a live event to entertain and spread its message of abstinence and purity rings to young peo...
THE STORY: Flint Hills Resources officials have said the company intends to demolish the 53-year-old facility in a letter sent to the city in response to a letter from the city asking Flint Hills to enter negotiations on the possible restart of its s...
THE STORY: Larry Neil White, who is charged in connection with the 2007 shooting deaths of three Odessa police officers, will stand trial in Howard County after a judge granted a change of venue in the case....
THE STORY: A jury in Andrews acquitted a former Kermit nurse who was indicted after she reported a Winkler County doctor to the state medical board for questionable practices....
THE STORY: Two Ector County court reporters will be taking a mandatory training session on a cruise to Mexico at taxpayer expense....
THE STORY: A Winkler County nurse will be in court alone on Monday in Andrews County....
THE STORY: Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina spoke during a campaign stop at The Midland Center. Medina faces incumbent Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the upcoming March primary election....
THE STORY: Clarence Edward “Bunky” Hunt, 80, was arrested at the Lincoln Tower Retirement Home in Odessa after police said he fired a handgun at a fellow resident....