Odessa News

Many roads across West Texas are slick from the sleet and ice Sunday. Multiple accidents are being reported in the Midland and Odessa area.

Kevin Donald Collins, age 46, of Odessa passed from this life on Friday, February 10, 2012 at Medical Center Hospital, with the love of his life, Lisa, by his side.

Gordon Nolan Howard, age 63, passed from this life on Friday, February 10, 2012 at his Odessa residence.

The Board of Aldermen has tapped a municipal budget and management veteran from Arizona to become the town's new manager March 15.

LibertyFest West 2012 showed that to "Party like it's 1776" meant decrying gun control laws, the Federal Reserve System and the government, among other things.

My wife and I have lived in this east Odessa neighborhood for 14 years and each year we have enjoyed the Neves family Christmas display, and as I drive by his home each day, I still envy his Texas-sized and Texas-colored mail box.

A Winter Storm Watch has been issued from 6AM-6PM Sunday for the following counties: Gaines, Dawson, Borden, Scurry, Andrews, Martin, Howard, Mitchell, Reeves, Loving, Winkler, Ector, Midland, Glasscock, Ward, Crane, Upton, Reagan, Davis/Apache Mountains, and Upper Trans-Pecos, TX & Guadalupe Mountains, Eddy County Plains, and Lea County, NM.

Odessa is growing - literally, as the Odessa City Council considers an annexation request during their meeting 7 p.m. Tuesday in City Hall.

CBS 7 News Robert Guaderrama rguaderrama@cbs7.com February 10, 2012 Midland, Texas - The cost of housing in west Texas continues to rise.

Johnnie Fields' watercolors, such as this one of spinnaker sailboats, will be on view Feb.

U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office Western District of Texas Press Release February 10, 2012 United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced that 42-year-old Guy Liston Kidd, of Odessa, Texas, faces a minimum of ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty today to one count of persuasion and enticement of a minor to engage in ... (more)

Odessa Police Department Press Release February 10, 2012 At approximately 1514 hours officers responded to a vehicle pedestrian accident in the 600 block of East 36th Street.

MIDLAND A 45-year-old McAllen man pleaded guilty Friday in Federal Court to one count of using the Internet and cell phone to promote his business of prostitution in Odessa and Midland, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

MIDLAND Local law enforcement agents arrested a suspect early Friday morning at an Odessa hotel, several hours after a Midland bank was robbed.

Ector County Sheriff Mark Donaldson, right, talks with Capt. Billy Clark where FM 554 is closed during the investigation of a deceased body that was found Nov.

A 21-year-old Odessa woman was arrested and charged with sexual performance by a child after, arrest documents state , she was identified in a nude picture with a 16-year-old female and filmed the girl while she stripped.

Update: 10:15AM The FBI is confirming that the bank robbery suspect from the Bank of America Thursday afternoon has been arrested and is in federal custody.

Wes Pitman of Odessa was the drawing winner of 2012 GMC Sierra 1500 at the Odessa High School Choir 14th annual truck drawing that took place Jan.

Services are scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturday at Acres West Funeral Chapel. Burial will be at Rose Hill Garden of Ector County Cemetery.

Tim Coburn is the creator/director of a new Master of Energy Business degree program offered online through the University of Tulsa.