Two men shot dead in Big Spring near Johnson Street
Police found Antonio Armijo and Frank Navarro dead from gunshot wounds in a front yard near the llth and Johnson streets after a shots fired call at 2:50 a.m. Friday. Timothy Flores was injured and treated. Autopsies pending. two guns recovered. no arrests yet. Armijo had prior legal trouble and a standoff in late November.
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Big Spring
Runnels Junior High School
Antonio Armijo
Frank Navarro
Quail Dobbs
Timothy Flores
Scenic Mountain Hospital
Johnson Street
Navarro
Armijo
Lonnie Smith
Llth
Johnson Streets
Lupe Liedecke
Lubbock County
Liedecke
Grand Jury
Wilkerson
Man Injured After Fleeing Authorities At Courthouse
A 34-year-old Odessa man broke his leg at the Ector County Courthouse Thursday while fleeing authorities after learning two warrants had been issued for his arrest. Ricky Lee Redman failed to pay fines totaling 825 dollars for driving without liability insurance and improper license. He leapt down stairs during a discussion about a plea in a misdemeanor theft case, then was chased by bailiffs and a DPS trooper. He was handcuffed at the scene.
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Odessa
Ector County
Ricky Lee Redman
Mark Donaldson
Redman
Justice of the Peace
Woody Rapper
Dewey Britt
Britt
Donaldson
Chris Cole
Cole
Texas Department of Public Safety
County Attorney’s Office
Private prison push taps West Texas towns for jobs
In Upton County a public hearing drew 200 residents as officials push a private prison plan to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The proposal promises 200 jobs and a 30 to 40 million facility, amid oil and gas downturns that threaten local revenues. Crane County meanwhile learned the state has no plans for a new prison.
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West Texas
Pecos
Howard
Reeves
Rankin Area
Upton County
Upton County Improvement Board
Paul Evans
West Texas Utilities
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Bureau of Prison
Evans
Vicki Bradley
Crane County
Robert Duncan
Rubbock
Reeves County
Daniel Bitolas
Jury rules White to die by injection for 1997 murder
Melvin Wayne White is sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 1997 murder and sexual assault of a 9 year old Ozona girl, Gravell. Videotaped confessions and multiple witnesses placed him with Gravell on August 4, 1997, during a brutal sequence culminating in a death sentence after a four hour deliberation.
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Fort Stockton
Melvin Wayne White
Ozona
White
Jennifer Lee Gravell
Ori White
D.A. White
Jennifer Gravell
Huntsville State Prison
Texas Tech to open health care center
TTUHSC plans an eight million dollar health care center at 701 W Fifth Street with an open house Tuesday. The facility will house four clinics and multiple schools and offices, supported by state and local funding. Ribbon cutting starts at 4 p.m. Tuesday with Chancellor John Montford attending.
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Texas Tech
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Texas Tech University
John Montford
Ttuhsc
School of Medicine
Nursing and Allied Health
Fifth St
Health Sciences Center
Christa Shanks
Tech
Ector County
Texas Tech University Higher Education
Shanks
Texas Tech Board of Regents
Odessa
Texas Tech University Health Science Center
Ector County fights Y2K costs with partial computer upgrades
County Judge Jerry Caddel warned of a looming Y2K meltdown last March but only 12 of 250 county computers have been replaced. Dept grants funded a few replacements in the Youth Detention Center, Sheriff, and DA offices. Auditor David Austin reports $85,000 appropriated through September, $72,000 spent to upgrade file servers and computers. Initial estimates ranged from $350,000 to $500,000, yet tests show several machines are compliant and costs may be lower. Testing should finish in about 30 days. Grant writer Randy Ragsdale has failed to find additional Y2K funding.
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Ector County
Jerry Caddel
Caddel
Austin
Randy Ragsdale
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China Long
Darwin Weigel
Texas Tech Board of
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