Hotel sale clears path for Odessa police courts project
Odessa city officials agreed to pay 375000 for the 56 year old Branton Hotel on North Grant Ave as part of a push to build a new police courts facility. The deal ends a seven year ownership by Glenn Branton and prompts relocation for more than 200 tenants with possession set for May 1 and vacate by April end. Demolition crews will be called in, while other parcels on West Third and West Second streets await further action amid eminent domain hearings for three additional properties.
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Odessa
Branton
Grant Avenue
Glenn Branton
Chester Nolen
Nolen
Red Cross
W. Third St
Odessa Boxing Club
West Second Street
North Grant and
Lee Avenues
Jim Golden
North Lee Avenue
West Third Street
Golden
Jack Edwards
Edwards
Ector County
Phillip Godwin
K&c Devlopers
Warren Heagy
R.O. Cannon
Branton Hotel Residents to Vacate as City Plans Demolition
Tension rose at Odessa's Branton Hotel as City Council announced the sale and planned demolition to clear space for an $8 million downtown police court facility. About 200 residents face May 1 vacating order, with many of them oilfield workers and transients seeking new housing options.
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Jeff Chew
Branton
Odessa
Death row woman waits for exoneration in Texas
Linda May Burnett, one of two women on Texas death row, spends about 23 hours daily in her yellow cell at Gatesville Prison. She recalls a past tied to family and PTA life while denying guilt in a child’s murder. her attorney expects a ruling soon.
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Gatesville
Linda May Burnett
Mrs. Burnett
Women’s Prison
Linda
PTA
Leo
Burnett
Texas
Winnie
Ovide Joseph Dugas
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Downwind and Diseased Faces in Air Pollution Risk
Thousands living near petrochemical plants and coke ovens inhale toxic chemicals linked to cancer. The National Clean Air Coalition and unions fault the EPA for failing to set emission standards after identifying 312 plants releasing at least 10,000 pounds annually. Estimates warn millions near 10 kilometer radius affected. benzene exposures highlighted near Clark Oil in Blue Island Illinois.
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Bruce Ingersoll
Chicago Sun-Times
Washington
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Clean Air Coalition
EPA
David D. Doniger
Natural Resources Defense Council
Coalition
Doniger
Clark Oil & Refining Corp
Blue Island
Chicago
New Jersey
Louisiana
Gulf Coast
Texas
Indiana
Chicago Area
Downstate
Illinois
Los Angeles
Buffalo
N.Y
Pittsburgh
Arms buildup in Nicaragua shown in new photos
Aerial photographs released by intelligence officials illustrate Nicaragua’s rapid military expansion with runways under construction and new garrisons resembling Cuban bases. Officials say Soviet equipment appears present, signaling imbalance in Central America as the CIA plans covert operations and a Latin American paramilitary force. Nicaragua denies claims and cites longstanding warnings.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Latin America
Honduras
John Hughes
Hughes
Cuba
Adm
Bobby Inman
Central Intelligence
Central America
Washington Post
Inman
Reagan
CIA
U.S. Intelligence Agency
Administration
the Post
Nicaragua-Honduras
United States
Francisco Fiallos Navarro
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Jack Dempsey
Rudy Vallee
Mary Harman
Mark Hamilton
Death Row
Kristin Gazlay
Associated Press
Ovide
Upper
Ohio River Valley
Nolan W. Hancock
the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
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