Odessa Bookstore Aligns With County Health Rules
An Odessa adult bookstore and its employees now comply with a county health code requiring monthly venereal disease testing and cubicle doorboarding. The Health Department reports all five stores have undergone testing with negative results and will be retested in 30 days. Prosecution plans were dropped as compliance was achieved.
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Odessa
Ector County Health
Toby Cross
Health Department
Robert Rowntree
Gary Garrison
Cross
Ector County
Dr. Rowntree
Plastic Glock 17 arrives in West Texas amid security debate
Officials say the Austrian made handgun known as the plastic gun poses no airport security threat. The Glock 17 weighs 24 ounces, uses an 18 round clip, and contains 83 percent metal, making it detectable by current X ray and metal detectors. Local pawn brokers report purchases but no sales yet as lawmakers review security implications.
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Austria
U.S
Odessa
America
Federal Aviation Administration
Bill Vincent
Carl Walter
Glock Inc
Smyrna
Vincent
Washington
Airport Securities
Vance Johnson
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau
Lubbock
Johnson
Dennis Jordan
Jordan
RSK Guns Inc
Milwaukee Wis
Walter
Gaston Glocken
County to consider abuse prevention program in Ector County
Ector County commissioners will meet at 10 a.m. Monday to discuss joining a child abuse prevention program. The Junior League of Odessa and Wake Up Odessa would fund the effort with 13737 dollars and provide volunteers to teach kindergartners through sixth graders. The county would organize training, publicity, and shelter referrals.
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Ector County
Junior League of
Odessa
Wake Up
Everett Berry
South Ector County
Hospital weighs bylaw requiring doctors to carry malpractice insurance
The Medical Center Hospital has not required physicians to hold malpractice coverage. The insurer may demand proof by August as a condition for renewing its policy set to expire July 1. The board referred the issue to the bylaws committee with plans to require all doctors to maintain malpractice insurance, while options include self insurance or seeking a nonmandate insurer.
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Medical Center Hospital
Glenn Wagner
MCH
Sam Glenney
Texas Hospital Insurance Exchange
Joint Underwriting Association of Austin
Glenney
Wagner
Odessa
Jim O'Leary
Lea County grand jury continues fraud probe in Lovington
Lea County grand jury reconvenes Friday to hear more evidence in an insurance fraud case involving an elected official. The 12 jurors and six alternates had recessed after five days amid delays from a $1.3 million Lea County Courthouse renovation that left jurors without a private meeting space.
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Lovington
N.M
Lea County
Georgia Camp
Fifth District
Thomas Rutledge
Lea Couny
Obituary notices for Crumpton and Brumlow services closed
Deaths for Lowell R. Crumpton and John W. Brumlow note 4 p.m. and 2 p.m. funeral times at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home. Crumpton, 70, of Odessa born 1915 in Jack County, WWII Army veteran, owned West Texas Answering Service. Brumlow, 71, born 1914 in Decatur, long Odessa resident, former City Moving and Storage owner.
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Lowell R
Crumpton
Douglas Drive
Hubbard- Kelly Funeral Home
Joe Black
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Medical Center Hospital
Jack County
Jewel Marie Pruitt
Bryson
Odessa
Young County
The
West Texas Answering Service
Crumpton Construction Co
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church
Ronnie Lowell
Shirley Kinsey
Karen Anderson
Janna Gordon
Jack
G. L. Crumpton
Iowa Park
Stella Smith
Mooringsport
Vera Crumpton
Iona McCarty
Graham
John W. Brumlow
N. Whitaker Ave
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Curtis Thorpe
Bramlow
Decatur
Ruth S. McCulley
Hobbs
N.M
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Texas
John McAhon
Danny Gholson
Southwest Airlines
Midland Regional
FAA
James Delcoure
Sportsman’s den
Andrews Highway
New York
Delcoure
Ector
Lea Grand Jury
Lowell Crumpton
John Brumlow
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