Pecos News

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News January 5, 2010 Pecos, Texas - "We always prepare for the worst and hope for the best," said Ricky Herrera, Emergency Operations Supervisor for The Town of Pecos City.

Jay Hendricks CBS 7 News January 4, 2010 Pecos, Texas - El Paso attorneys are working on a lawsuit they say they plan to file against the company that operates the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos.

Alan Waltrip CBS 7 News December 30, 2009 Pecos, Texas - Pecos Police and crimestoppers are offering rewards for a string of recent crimes.

The city of Waco's Solid Waste Offices and Cobbs Recycling Center will be closed Thursday and Friday.

All the Day Holiday plays the 20th Century Theatre Saturday. Just in time for the winter holidays, we get to speak to appropriately named local band All the Day Holiday.

Five cotton farming families and several Marine families shared a meal Wednesday night at the National Guard Reserve Center to celebrate the holidays and bond before the next deployment.

I guess it's the weather, but it surely seems like Christmas already and maybe because it is a fact that this is my favorite time of the year.

About 20 human rights activists gathered outside the New Braunfels office of a private prison-management company on Thursday to demand that it improve conditions at the Reeves County Detention Center.

The organization ranked Texas as number 46 on their list, with North Dakota and Alaska taking the top 2 spots.

Heavy winds gusted through the Permian Basin Tuesday downing power lines, snapping trees and leaving hundreds without power for much of the evening.

Beau Berman CBS 7 News bberman@cbs7.com December 10, 2009 Pecos, Texas - The Pecos City Council is considering adoption of an ordinance that would outlaw chaining dogs and advocates are coming all the way from Big Spring to speak out.

On December 12th 2008, 32 year old Jesus Manuel Galindo died in solitary confinement at Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas.

Civil rights activists say they're taking their attack on conditions in a privately run West Texas prison to the prison operator's New Braunfels offices.

Jordan Reagan CBS 7 News December 8, 2009 Pecos, Texas - Now it doesn't sound like we really got it as bad over here in Pecos, but the wind has been blowing anywhere from 52 to 58 miles per hour all day.

TxDot Press Release November 30, 2009 TxDOT Roadway Weather Advisory, Monday, 4:35 p.m. The National Weather Service forecast says that rain, freezing rain and snow could affect portions of the Permian Basin tonight [Monday, Nov.

Gary Hinterlong CBS7 Morning News December 1, 2009 8:20 AM Officials tell us Interstate 10 is now shut down in both directions from mile marker 141 to mile marker 187.

The Palo Pinto, Parker, Jack and Young County Extension offices would like to encourage pecan growers to enter their pecans in the up-coming 2009 Pecan Show on Monday, Dec.

Looking for a holiday gift idea? Pecan Ridge can help! Pecan Ridge has gift baskets and boxes filled with delicious Texas products perfect for family, friends, or business associates.

United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that this afternoon in Midland, 28-year old Katherin Elizabeth Terry of Pecos, Texas, a former corrections officer at the Reeves County Detention Center, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling iPods to an inmate at that facility.

Right now, pecans are falling to the ground all over the Permian Basin. And that means it's time to harvest those nuts, take off the shell and put them in a pie for the holiday table.