Odessa College to lose power for eight hours
Odessa College facilities including KOCV TV and KOCV FM will be without electricity for about eight to ten hours today while a power pole is replaced. Power shutoff starts near 8 a.m. Stations will resume broadcasting once power returns. Administrative Wing and several buildings will also be without power. Offices are closed on Fridays during the summer.
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Milosevic Accepts Western Peace Plan In Kosovo crisis
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic agreed to a peace plan backed by the EU and Russia to end mass expulsions of ethnic Albanians and NATO airstrikes. Clinton urged verifiable troop withdrawal and refugee return as NATO continued bombing. the plan calls for a foreign security force and NATO participation while Milosevic’s government faces compliance tests.
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Tiananmen Remembrance Quiet Amid Police Vigil in Beijing
Families of victims mourn privately with candles as police guard potential demonstrations on the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. A mother recalls her son Zhao Long, killed during the protests, saying the government offers no sympathy.
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China
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Tenet names interim leader for Odessa Regional Hospital
Tenet Health Care Corp assigns Jim Shafer as interim chief executive officer of Odessa Regional Hospital to oversee operations during the sale process. Lex Guinn leaves ORH May 21 to lead Spalding Regional Medical Center in Griffin, Georgia as the sale moves forward.
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Official warns area Hispanics to avoid financial apartheid
Massey Villarreal, chairman of the U S Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, urged West Texas Hispanics to build their businesses now to avoid a future financial apartheid. Speaking at a luncheon in Odessa hosted by the Mexican American Network and UT Permian Basin SBDC, he warned that by 2050 they could lack economic voice if action is delayed.
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Odessa
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Permian Basin
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Forecasters This Summer Cooler Than Last
John Doolittle of Lakewood Garden Center recalls the 1998 Texas heat wave with 29 straight 100 degree days. He notes business plummeted as heat kept people indoors. A year later, business improves and temperatures stay cooler. The Fort Worth NWS lined up the early 1990s patterns with fewer 100 degree days by May.
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