With Social Security’s COLA on the line, the Trump administration plans to release inflation data delayed by the shutdown ...

On Monday, OPD detectives performed a narcotics search warrant in the 9900 block of West Tisdale Road, where around 41.7 ...

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The red donation buckets and ringing bells may be one of the most recognizable signs of the Salvation Army. But inside its West Texas shelter, the work of the Salvation ...

An Armenian family whose destiny is intertwined with photography and Turkey's complex history. An interview with Armen Marsoobian, professor of philosophy and editor of Metaphilosophy magazine, a ...

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Last November, around seven hundred people packed into the Ector Theatre, a renovated movie palace in downtown Odessa, to watch the swearing in of Mayor Cal Hendrick and three city council members.

Odessa City Council Member At-Large Craig Stoker says he takes homeowner William Dorman's concern seriously, but the city legally can't do much about the complaint as of now without action from the ...

WEST ODESSA, Texas — Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis confirmed with NewsWest 9 that an officer-involved shooting occurred in Odessa, leaving one man dead. Around 2:15 p.m., an Ector County Sheriff's ...

Ask Odessa Young what she does for a living and she might not say she’s an actor. Especially when she’s doing this: chatting with a journalist over breakfast at the sceney Sunset Tower. Young is ...