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Gold Performance

ODESSA AMERICAN

Twenty-three ECISD schools earned a total of 45 Gold Performance Acknowledgments from the Texas Education Agency this year. TEA released the names of the award winners this week. Gold Performance Acknowledgements recognize districts and campuses for... Full story

Food for thought

PHOTO BY MARK STERKEL

Odessa Catholic Charities president John Wilkins, right, and board member Bob Slider, get help Friday from UTPB softball player Samantha Baeza as they load some of the 2,166.6 pounds of food donated by Weight Watchers members during the... Full story

Student ministry

BY VERONICA SANDATE CRAKER

Walk by faith, not by sight. This message can be seen on shirts worn by members of the UTPB Catholic Student Association. Coincidentally the message — from 2 Corinthians 5:7 — reflects the exact situation the group finds itself in, as... Full story

Food for fines

ODESSA AMERICAN

Wipe library fines clean by donating to a good cause. The Ector County Library is trading food for fines until Nov. 30. The event is part of a partnership with the library and the West Texas Food Bank. For every eight-ounce can of food donated,... Full story

UPDATED: Gardendale deaths

Neighbor said husband was depressed

BY DOMINIC GENETTI

The bodies of two Gardendale residents are on the way to Fort Worth for autopsy after they were discovered in their home by family members Thursday afternoon. Ector County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the double homicide in... Full story

M.A.S.H.

ODESSA AMERICAN

MIDLAND Both the West Texas Food Bank and the United Blood Services of West Texas will benefit during the Ninth Annual M.A.S.H. or Make A Special Holiday event. The West Texas Radio Group will be collecting perishable and nonperishable foods while... Full story

Scholarship award

ODESSA AMERICAN

UTPB President David Watts will present the E. Grace Osadchuk Memorial Merit Scholarship in music to student Trenton Davis. Davis is a member of UTPB’s music program. Davis has already performed worldwide. Watts will present Davis with the... Full story

Snow in Odessa?

ODESSA AMERICAN

Joe Villa, left, and Melchor Avalos with the City of Odessa Parks and Recreation department hang snowflake wreaths Thursday afternoon on the Grant Avenue light poles.... Full story

Senior Center fundraiser

BY DOMINIC GENETTI

Shoes, clothing, household items and books are just a few of the things you’ll find at the South Side Senior Center’s Christmas fundraiser. The center at 900 S. Dixie Blvd. collects donated goods and sells them to the seniors that visit... Full story

Skate park could close

BY DOMINIC GENETTI

He doesn’t want to, but if it leads to a lesson taught, City of Odessa Parks Director Steve Patton will close the new Ruben Pier Memorial Skate Park at Sherwood Park. “I’ll put up a temporary fence, and it’ll be... Full story

Mustang races down BR-20

BY DOMINIC GENETTI

A Mustang caused problems on Business 20  Thursday night, however, a Ford sports car was not involved. Derrell Ervin was transporting his 10-year-old Mustang horse from his farm to another when it got loose and got caught in the yard at... Full story

Police Blotter 11/6/09

The following is a list of felony criminal activities reported to the police

ODESSA AMERICAN

Numbered addresses of locations where crimes occur are rounded to the nearest hundred block.   ASSAULT >> An Odessa woman reported someone hit her with an open fist between 2 a.m. and 2:20 a.m. Monday at Taylor Place Apartments, 1322... Full story

Fort Hood slayings hit close to home for UTPB volleyball player

BY JOEL A. ERICKSON

Jamie Rodell had no idea what to think. All she had was a text from her little brother, a student at Killeen High, and another text from her best friend telling Rodell to call her mom, her dad, her boyfriend, anybody from back home. Fort Hood had... Full story

Cha-Cha slide

BY DOMINIC GENETTI

  Renovations are coming to the Bowie Junior High School lobby, but there are several twists…about two stories high. The school is doing its own independent fundraising to install a slide into the lobby of the West 21st Street building.... Full story

FH shooting suspect alive

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

UPDATE: WASHINGTON (AP) — AP source: Fort Hood shooting suspect is Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan. ORIGINAL STORY FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post... Full story

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