Sinkholes swell near Wink Texas as water wells blamed
Oil field interests and officials from Wink, Kermit, and Midland seek answers as craters near Wink grow. Experts say water movement, not oil production, may drive the phenomenon and call for federal and state help. Utilities map plans to reroute gas lines and monitor the subsidence while authorities assess the risk to the Texas New Mexico Power substation.
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Wink
John Bell
Kermit
Bob Trentham
Center For Energy and Economic Diversification
University of Texas
Permian Basin
Trentham
Midland Railroad Commission
Bell
U.S. Geological Survey
Winkler County Sheriff's Office
Department of Transportation
Highway 115
Larum
Odessa
Andrews
Interstate 20
Sarum
Mike Conaway
Conaway
Winkler County
Texas
Buddy West
State Railroad Commission
U.S
Stevan Pearce
R-Hobbs
Jal
N.M
Odessa Man Dies from Russian Roulette Gunshot
A 21-year-old Odessa man, Dominic Adrian Avila, died Sunday after a gunshot wound to the head. Police said the injury occurred Friday afternoon in the Oakwood Drive apartment while a witness said Avila was playing Russian roulette with a small caliber handgun.
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Dominic Adrian Avila
Odessa
Oakwood Drive
Avila
Oil and gas drilling spreads across Texas federal lands
BNP Petroleum moves derricks seven miles along Padre Island dunes to a new site amid rising exploration on federal parks refuges and forests in Texas. Officials note 292 wells across five national forests and grasslands while the Big Thicket plan opens 59 percent of its land to drilling.
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BNP Petroleum Corp
Corpus Christi
Texas
Tim Bigler
Sam Houston National Forest
Texas General Land Office
Fund For Texas Public Schools
BNP
BPN
Sierra Club
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge
Matagorda Island
Houston Oil
Charles Holbrook
Aransas Refuge
National Park Service
Big Thicket National
Big Thicket
Park Service
Padre Seashore
Juan Rodriguez
Ohio man charged with terroristic threat on bus
Ronnie Van Horn, 25, of Ohio, remained jailed in Reeves County on a $1500 bond after allegedly threatening to blow up a passenger aboard a Greyhound bus in Toyah Texas. DPS Sgt. Richard Jacobs said the driver stopped the bus and called authorities who arrested Van Horn.
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Toyah
Ohio
Reeves County
Texas Department of Public Safety
Richard Jacobs
Ronnie van Horn
Reeves County Sheriff's Office
Jacobs
van Horn
DPS
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Robbie Wolf
Wolf
Johnny King
Permian
Texas Gas Service
el Paso
King
Texas- New Mexico Power Station Near the Gas Line, Bell and King
Tommy Terry
West Texas
Texas- New Mexico Power
Terry
Wink and Wickett
Glen Sarum
Mark Sterkel
Wink Sink
Midland Center
N. Main Midland
Padre
Ommaseten
de Susie
Odessa Jibs Parkway
University
Bibages
Ort
del Suis
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