Fort Stockton News

A Pecos County intersection now has a major upgrade. TXDOT has opened the new U.S. 285 bridge over F.M.1776 northwest of Fort Stockton.

In her bedroom, Jessica Silverman keeps a painting stashed away, covered in protective bubble wrap and placed in a simple white box.

Visitation will be held on 10:00 A.M. Tuesday, May 22 in the Chapel of the Divine Mercy at Heritage Funeral Home of the Big Bend with a Rosary to be said at 7:00 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, May 23 at Saint Joseph Catholic Church in Fort Stockton with Father Joseph Mamachan officiating.

Eleven members and guests of the Odessa Downtown Lions Club recently attended the District 2T3 Convention in Fort Stockton.

Texans, especially us who are west of I-35 and in either dry country or desert, need to get realistic and quit trying to get water from more fortunate neighbors or East Texas.

Shelley Childers schilders@cbs7.com CBS 7 News May 18, 2012 If you're hitting the roads this morning or will be heading out of town the Texas Department of Transportation tells us an exit ramp in Fort Stockton off I-10 is closed.

As sheepshearing season winds down across West Texas, wool fleeces delivered to the warehouse in Mertzon are surprisingly clean and healthy despite hardships brought on by the drought during growing season, said Ronald Pope, general manager of Producers Marketing Cooperative.

Last summer, Josh Berry, 41, and Robin Berry, 40, were killed when a car veered into oncoming traffic on Highway 285 in Fort Stockton and struck their minivan head-on. The family was on their way home from a vacation in Colorado.

Drug traffickers are making their way through Fort Stockton. Fort Stockton Police Chief Art Fuentes tells Big 2 that illegal drugs are making their way through the city along the many roads and highways that pass through it.

A West Texas man was sentenced to 75 years in prison for killing his wife by stabbing her more than two dozen times.

FORT STOCKTON A Fort Stockton man found guilty of murder in March in the July 9 murder of his wife was sentenced Thursday to 75 years in prison, District Attorney Jesse Gonzales said.

CBS 7 News May 10, 2012 FORT STOCKTON, TX - All this rain is actually a cause for concern for some wild life experts.

The much-needed rains are a blessing, but drivers need to remember that wet roads make it a bit more difficult to stop and/or control a vehicle.

Services are scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday at Jehovah Witness Kingdom Hall Church in Fort Stockton with the Rev.

More than 2,500 faithful gathered in Lubbock Saturday and Sunday for the Spanish-speaking Jehovah's Witnesses Texas Circuit 27 A and B assembly.

A Coyanosa man has been convicted a murder that happened more than 13 years ago.

Jesse Gonzales, 83rd District Attorney, said the jury convicted Fabian Douglas Castaeda at 8:45 p.m. Thursday.

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