Strip clubs face move restrictions in Odessa plan
Odessa officials propose zoning and license rules that would confine topless bars to designated city zones and force four existing venues to relocate within five years or lose licenses. South Odessa residents oppose locating such businesses nearby, citing crime and blight concerns, while club owners fear lost patronage. Local officials stress targeted zones aim to avoid inundating the south side.
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Camden Chancellor
DFI Contract Design
First Street
Odessa
Steve Eleftheriadis
Playmates Cabaret
Manuel
Second Street
Javier Joven
Gonzalez
Eleftheriadis
Joven
Central Business District
IRS flunks audit for fourth year
Washington AP report says the Internal Revenue Service cannot reconcile its taxpayer ledgers with the $1.4 trillion it collected or $122 billion in refunds paid. The GAO found persistent accounting problems and questioned its ability to substantiate tax type revenues, fueling calls for independent oversight.
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Internal Revenue Service
Ted Stevens
Alaska
Governmental Affairs Committee
Stevens
General Accounting Office
Congress
IRS
District of Columbia
House
Jim Lightfoot
Appropriations
GAO
Odessa Boy Dies in Possible Drowning
An 8-year-old Odessa boy died after a reported drowning at a North Adams Avenue home. Detectives from the Metro Homicide Unit investigated while family members were questioned. The body was sent to Lubbock for an autopsy. names were not released.
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Snow Robertson
North Adams Avenue
Robertson
Bob Bullard
Medical Center Hospital
Metro Homicide Unit
Police Department
Lubbock
Fate ends valiant child's battle
Justin Cordova, a 2 year old from Andrews, who was in leukemia remission and awaiting a bone marrow transplant donated by his infant sister, died from a congenital small intestine malformation. Surgeons could not repair the defect, which caused fatal hemorrhaging prior to the planned transplant.
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John Lacuone
Lacuone
Justin
Theuone
Jacuone
Odessa American
Justin Cordova
Andrews
Courtney
University Medical Center
Lubbock
OPEC ministers weigh Iraq return and quota shifts
In Vienna OPEC ministers explore letting Iraq resume exports without triggering price declines. A possible plan would raise Iraq's quota while others hold theirs, aiming to curb overproduction while maintaining oil demand support amid easing embargo conditions.
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Amer Mohammed Rasheed
OPEC
Vienna
Austria
U.N
United Nations
Kuwait
Organization of the Petroleum
Dole to resign as budget vote falls short in Senate
The Senate rejected a constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget 64 to 35, short of the 66 needed to advance to the states. Sen. Orrin Hatch blamed liberal politicians as Dole announces his upcoming resignation to campaign full time while Clinton remains at odds with Congress on balancing the budget.
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Bob Dole
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Orrin Hatch
Utah
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Kansas
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