Odessa City Council Sets Goals at Retreat
Odessa officials wrapped a retreat by affirming progress on last year’s aims including keeping taxes steady, expanding the wastewater plant, master planning parks, boosting recycling, and cutting crime. They then set new goals to enhance Odessans’ quality of life, with emphasis on parks near UT Permian Basin and a renewed city image as “can do.”
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Odessa
San Reete
Bob Saunders
Missouri
Lorraine Perryman
Perryman
Parents create fund to aid children with cancer after daughter’s death
Pam and Brad Logan start the Kelsey Logan Angel Fund in memory of daughter Kelsey who died at age one after an aggressive spinal tumor. The fund supports families facing pediatric cancer by easing treatment hardships and improving a child's quality of life through items like visits, toys, movies, and family support.
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Pam
Brad Logan
Kelsey
Logans
Kelsey Logan
Pam Logan
Alzheimer’s disease interview with Frank MacShane unfolds
New Yorker Frank MacShane, 67, opens his New York home to discuss Alzheimer's as he reflects on his career and writing life. The conversation covers diagnosis, early awareness, and the impact of memory loss on aging scholars, noting how tests increasingly confirm the disease.
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New York
Frank MacShane
MacShane
Columbia University
Raymond Chandler
John O'Hara
Alzheimer’s Association
Uncertain fate of downed American pilot in Bosnia
Contradictory Bosnian Serb statements and wreckage video leave the U S pilot missing after an F 16 was shot down in Serb held northern Bosnia. NATO and European ministers plan a 7 000 to 9 000 strong rapid reaction force under U N command to bolster peacekeepers as uncertainty persists.
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Pale
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
U.N
NATO
Associated Press
U.S
Yasushi Akashi
Former
Yugoslavia
United Nations
Jovan Zametica
Radovan Karadzic
Paris
France
Britain
United States
Congress
Clinton
Hissing cockroaches steal the Bug Fest spotlight in Dallas
At the Dallas Zoo yearly Bug Fest visitors met Madagascar imports and a range of six and eight legged display creatures. Entomologist Dr Ray Thompson notes hissing cockroaches as hearty relics of 75 million years of evolution while others discuss termites and detection dogs. Ernest Ryan showcases preserved insects for schools and girls show more interest in tarantulas, sparking mixed reactions from curious adults and a Dallas mother who remains wary of bugs.
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Dallas
Texas
Madagascar
Ray Thompson
Terminix
Thompson
United States
David Fincannon
Fincannon
Animal Kingdom
Queensland
Ernest Ryan
Ryan
Jill Barron
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