Home fire on East Sixth Street kills man in abandoned house
Firefighters found a man dead after an early morning blaze at a vacant house on the 1600 block of East Sixth Street. Investigators, awaiting autopsy results, say the victim may be a homeless transient. Odessa police will identify him and probe for foul play if indicated. Owners, Winton and Billie Jones, say the structure has been abandoned for about 18 months.
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East Sixth Street
Fire Department
White
Odessa
Sherrie Thompson
OPD
Thompson
Andrea Goodson
Lubbock
Winton
Billie Jones
Ector County
Jones Jr
Regis
Jones
Sand Hills School Days Rodeo Draws Thousands of Students
Thousands of Permian Basin elementary students attended two Sand Hills School Days Rodeo shows at the Ector County Coliseum. Odessa College Rodeo Team performed while youths watched bareback riding, saddle bronc, bull riding, team roping, tie down roping, breakaway roping, and barrel racing. The event aimed to introduce kids to western sports and stadium excitement.
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Cindera Nealy
Odessa
Elizabeth Teagarden
Clint Bafsch
Ector County Coliseum
Cledits
Permian Basin
Sand Hills
Scott Tidwell
SandHills Stock Show
Rodeo
Bryan Barrow
Ector County Independent School District
Barrow
Support pours in for Permian band student Turner
Family spokeswoman Rachel Shintani Dobbs says community support for Kimberly Dawn Turner 16 remains overwhelming as she lies in a coma with massive head trauma in the Medical Center Hospital ICU after Tuesday's traffic accident. Christel Williams 15 also injured.
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Kimberly Dawn Turner
Rachel Shintani Dobbs
Turner
Medical Center Hospital
Dobbs
Christel Williams
Odessa hosts crew filming Friday Night Lights scenes
A film crew from Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, about 10 people strong, is in Odessa for two days to shoot rough sequences for Friday Night Lights. They plan town shots around 1988 Permian High and Ratliff Stadium with no acting scenes this trip, returning in March to finish work.
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Eric Heffron
Coffee Cowboy
Odessa
Universal Pictures
Ima
Gine Entertainment
Heffron
Permian High School
Joe Hudgins
Manger
Scott Theater
Neal Pool Rekers
61St
Golder
Ector County
Ratliff Stadium
Peter Berg
Universal
Berg
Permian Panthers
Ratliff
Universal Studios
Imagine Entertainment
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