Andrews County News

After rising much of the year, Odessa saw its jobless rate decrease for the third consecutive month when statewide figures were released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission.

So far, area officials say they are having a tough time keeping the H1N1 vaccine in stock.

Andrews City officials are working hard to re-route truck traffic around the city, but they're meeting some resistance from residents near the road where they'll construct the new route.

The Milken Institute ranks the U.S. metro areas by how well they are creating and sustaining jobs and economic growth.

An Andrews man shot and killed Thursday has been identified. According to a news release from the Andrews County Sheriff's Office, Paul Winslow Adair III, 28, died in the driveway of his home at 960 SE FM 1601 in Andrews.

Andrews County law officials are on the scene of an apparent homicide on southeast FM 1601.

Members of the Comanche Trails District of the Buffalo Trail Council Boy Scouts of America, which includes Ector County and Andrews County, participated in a flag retirement ceremony on Sunday at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Elias Hernandez CBS 7 News November 3, 2009 Andrews County Andrews ISD Trustee Election *Peter C. Francis *Michael A. Crow *H. Ernest Falcon *Charles Simpson Midland County City Council, District 1 *Jeff Sparks *Charlie Spence State Propositions: Proposition 1 - 'The constitutional amendment authorizing the financing, including through tax ...

This week's oil and gas lease sale may be a sign of good things to come. October 31, 2009 6:16 AM ODESSA AMERICAN It's no secret that the economic roller coaster has all of us on board.

It is being called one of the largest environmental cleanups in the country. Nearly 250 thousand cubic yards of sediment from New York's Hudson River is now in Andrews County, Texas.

A Palo Pinto County grand jury returned 25 indictments Wednesday against 20 named individuals, including a man accused of repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl.

The case of two Winkler County nurses is being moved to some-where outside Winkler County and an indictment has been quashed.

Elias Hernandez CBS 7 News October 26, 2009 The November 3rd constitutional amendment election is just around the corner, but many people are casting their ballots early.

Shelley Childers CBS 7 October 12, 2009 Midland, TX - There was plenty of crying this morning at the Midland Health Center.

A major accident has closed a 2-mile stretch of F.M. 1788 in Andrews County this morning, a news release issued by TxDOT public information officer Glen Larum said.

State Rep. Tryon Lewis expresses his gratitude after being recognized by Andrews and Ector counties as a Friend of County Government.

The first shipment of H1N1 vaccines is expected to be available to the Ector County Health De-partment by Oct.

Texas State Senator Glenn Hegar and Rodney Baltzer, President of Waste Control Specialists, LLC, spoke to Matagorda County citizens at VFW Post 2438 on Wednesday, Sept.

It appears Vermont Yankee is getting an out-of-state site to store its low-level nuclear waste.

It's been 18 years in the making and planning, but it finally appears the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant will have a state-sanctioned facility for low-level radioactive waste.