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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Feb 22, 2000

Page

8

TAAS Test Tensions At Local Career Center

Brown says lower TAAS scores still lead to graduation as students gradually reach passing levels. AIM High often avoids TAAS. others face tougher standards since 1992. Teachers drill for TAAS, students seek real learning, test runs 9 to 11:30 a.m. with in-library finishing for late testers.

Brown Career Center Iowa Fowler AIM High School Ferguson Chris Vaught Philip Cameron

Texas A and M releases accounts of bonfire collapse

College Station AP Texas A M released about 200 witness accounts detailing the bonfire collapse that killed twelve students on November 18 as witnesses described pops of splintered wood a shifting center pole and logs sliding over. Witnesses recalled panic dust and darkness as survivors searched for friends and emergency crews arrived hours before sunrise.

College Station Aggies Justin Hollingsworth Angelle Villar Texas A&m Collin Zacek Wendy Wheeler

Inmates Move to Terrell Unit Amid Hostage Standoff

Prison officials relocated death-row inmates from the Ellis unit to the Terrell facility after a Thanksgiving 1998 escape, as a hostage situation unfolds with one weapon a sharpened metal rod and another unspecified non gun. Wilkerson, a repeat escape offender, faces execution for robbing and shooting a Houston jewelry store clerk. Guidry, on death row, participated in a murder-for-hire plot that killed Farah Fratta, mother of three, in Harris County.

Todd Terrell Ellis Unit Huntsville Wilkerson Chung Myong Yi Houston Guidry Harris County Farah Fratta Robert Fratta

Odessa Crime Blotter Reports Break-in Assault Thefts

A 26 year old Odessa woman reports a burglary at 11 50 p m in the 1000 block of Wilson Street with boots and electronics stolen valued at 1578 A 38 year old Odessa man breaks into his residence at 10 50 p m in the 4600 block of Oakwood Drive A 50 year old Odessa man says he was assaulted with a deadly weapon at 9 30 p m in the 3700 block of Andrews Highway A 41 year old Odessa man steals a 1750 lawnmower on Feb 14 in the 100 block of Monticello Street A known person sexually assaults a 3 year old boy and a 5 year old girl in Ector County at an unknown location Sunday.

Odessa Wilson Street Andrews Highway Monticello Street Ector County

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