Trustee pushes for tougher school discipline in ECISD
ECISD Trustee Doyle Woodall urges zero tolerance for misbehavior. He cites assaults on teachers and students, talks with police and judges, and notes a Permian High School incident where teacher Cathy Creel fractured a thumb after a student confrontation. The case awaits grand jury action.
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Doyle Woodall
Ector County Independent School District
ECISD
Woodall
Ector County
John Smith
Smith
Permian
Cathy Creel
Creel
Ector
Reeves County Hospital to Add 18000 More Square Feet
Reeves County Hospital in Odessa is undergoing 8 million dollars in upgrades that will add 18 000 square feet to the current 56 000 square foot facility. The upgrades include an expanded emergency room dialysis center physical therapy rural health and specialty clinics and a new helipad. Chief executive Robert Vernor, at the helm for three years, is leaving as the facility increases its outpatient flow to about 2 000 patients a month. The project will bring in copper exterior panels with bronze castings from Pecos High School and hire seven to ten new staff including Dr Ziad Abdo and Dr K Moorthi.
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Reeves County
Reeves County Hospital
Robert Vernor
Vernor
Venetta Seales
Pecos
Walter Holland
Pecos High School
Seales
Ziad Abdo
K. Moorthi
Medicare law aids rural hospitals in Texas
Rural hospitals struggle with patient volume staffing costs and lower urban Medicare reimbursements. A 2003 Medicare law includes provisions to make reimbursements more equitable, said Richard Hoeth of the Texas Hospital Association. See MEDICARE on Page 2A.
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Richard Hoeth
Texas Hospital Association
Austin
Medicare
Al Qaida linked militants threaten S Korea hostage
Al Jazeera aired a tape showing Kim Sun il, a 33 year old South Korean hostage, pleading for life and demanding Seoul withdraw troops from Iraq within 24 hours. The group led by Abu Musab al Zarqawi warned of beheading if demands were not met. The video followed South Korea's plan to deploy 3000 troops to Iraq as the largest coalition partner after the U.S. and Britain.
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Baghdad
Iraq
al- Jazeera
al- Qaida
Abu Musab al- Zarqawi
South Korea
Kim Sun-il
Gana General Trading Co
U.S
Paul M. Johnson Jr
al-Qaida
Saudi Arabia
North
United States
Britain
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Campbel
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Eft
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Aly
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Al-Qaida Group
Riyadh
Sawt al- Jihad
Voice of the Holy War
Arabian Peninsula
Johnson
al-Khadma Road
Imam Mohammed bin Saud University
Abdulaziz al-Mogrin
Lockheed Martin
Al-Mogrin
Cations, LLC
Shakespear
Globe of the Great Southwest
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