UTPB Pioneer Returns Home Honors Convocation
Ace Pickens, former Texas House member who helped create the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, returned to address UTPB students at the honors convocation. He praised scholars and urged graduates to remember those who helped them and to give back to the institution.
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Ace Pickens
Odessa
Texas ‘House of Representatives
University of Texas of the
Permian Basin
Austin
David Watts
Pickens
West Texas
University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Driver identified in hit and run on Bonham Avenue
Odessa police say a black Ford Mustang driver Ernesto Quintana Garcia age 17 of 6500 Eastridge Road struck 8 year old Samuel Stowe on Bonham Avenue sending him to Medical Center Hospital. Garcia bonded out on 30 000 total bonds after failing to stop render aid and driving while intoxicated.
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Odessa
Ernesto Quintana Garcia
Eastridge Road
Ector County
Garcia
Samuel Stowe
Sherrie Carruth
Carruth
Josef —§ Kobes
Samuel
Josef
Medical Center Hospital
Ann Robes
MCH
Grand jury indicts torturer on multiple counts
Parker County grand jury indicted 58 year old Jeffrey Allan Maxwell on one aggravated kidnapping count and two aggravated sexual assault counts. The accused allegedly tortured a woman for nearly two weeks using a deer skinning stand as part of the alleged abuse. The indictments were handed up on Thursday.
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Grand Jury
Weatherford
Deer
Parker County
Jeffrey Allan Maxwell
Possum Kingdom Lake Fire Rebuild Will Take Years
Palo Pinto County Sheriff Ira Mercer said the Possum Kingdom Lake fire has burned about 160 of the area’s 3,000 homes and will take years to recover. Containment reached about 20 percent as firefighters push to curb the blaze that began a week ago near the lakeside community 70 miles west of Fort Worth.
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Possum Kingdom Lake
Texas
North Texas
Palo Pinto County
Ira Mercer
Fort
Bowie Junior High student charged over bomb hoax
A Bowie Junior High ninth grader faces a state jail felony charge after inventing a bomb in a locker claim. ECISD police identified the student and detained him after a teacher reported the threat, evacuation was canceled, and the day continued with no injuries or further disruptions.
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Bowie
Ector County Independent School District
Mike Adkins
ECISD
Adkins
Two Odessans injured in I-20 rollover crash
A one car rollover on Interstate 20 eastbound at mile marker 89 left two Odessans hospitalized after their pickup truck tire blew. Driver Rodolfo Marquez, 20, and passenger Romualdo Ortiz Rey, 42, were treated. Rey suffered a collapsed lung, concussion, and dislocated shoulder but was stable. A third passenger was uninjured. all wore seatbelts and no citations were issued.
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Andino
Rey
Medical Center Hospital
Odessa’ Regional Medical Center
Citia~ Reid
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