Fort Stockton nursing home sold to oil firm for revival
A shuttered Fort Stockton nursing home may reopen under new ownership as a local oil company buys the facility. In Odessa, the city council approved funding for 2000-2001 that falls short of agencies’ requests, distributing less money to area health services.
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Fort Stockton
Odessa
One-Third Of Heart Attack Victims Lack Chest Pain
A JAMA study of 434,877 heart attack patients shows about 33 percent arrive at hospital without chest pain. Painless cases face over twice the risk of death, due to delays and diagnostic errors. women, nonwhites, older adults, and those with prior heart disease are most affected.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Association
Lynn Smaha
American Heart Association
John G. Canto
University of Alabama At Birmingham
Possible capital murder charges in Big Spring triple killing
In Big Spring a 17 year old, David Martinez, faces murder charges in the deaths of Simonia Hollingworth 39 and injuries to Vicki Green 24. Police say Hollingworth is Martinez mother in law and Janie Mendez 56 and Chris Delgado 21 were also killed. District attorney Hardy Wilkerson anticipates additional murder charges possibly capital murder as the case weighs evidence. Green survived with non life threatening injuries and is hospitalized in Lubbock.
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Big Spring
David Martinez
N. Scurry
Simonia Hollingworth
Martinez
Hardy Wilkerson
Judicial District
Janie Mendez
Hollingsworth
Chris Delgado
Mendez
Wilkerson
Sixth St
Vicki Green
Delgado
Green
University Medical Center
Lubbock
Kim Davis
Richardson defends dealings with OPEC in Washington
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson faced tough questions on Capitol Hill as Republicans derided the Clinton era for weak handling of police gas prices and the OPEC oil cartel. Richardson argued quiet diplomacy is working, noting gas prices in the Midwest have fallen 7 to 12 cents though still high.
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Washington
Bill Richardson
Capitol Hill
House
Clinton
OPEC
Richardson
Midwest
House International Relations Committee
Tax trap catches thousands in high tax states
The alternative minimum tax, designed to curb sheltering income, hit 828,000 taxpayers in 1998, a 25 percent rise as inflation index issues and expanding deductions push more middle-class filers into the levy. IRS data show 480,000 paid 2.8 billion in 1996, with 1997 figures rising.
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Washington
IRS
Congress
Hank Gutman
KPMG
Internal Revenue Service
Reunion planned for Odessa Blackshear High alumni
Graduates of Blackshear High School classes 1932 to 1966 will gather for a multi day reunion at the Holiday Inn Centre in Odessa. Registration is required. The event honors the all black school's role in the community before desegregation in 1966 and features Beulah Dangerfield a 1965 graduate and president of the reunion committee.
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Odessa
Blackshear High School
Holiday Inn Centre
Highway 80
Blackshear
Beulah Dangerfield
Dangerfield
Blackshear High
Beulah M. Dangerfield
Gerbera Finley
Finley
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