Cooler Days Bring Fair, Cold Night Across Permian Basin
A National Weather Service report notes cooler days and cold nights with a mid-30s low and light variable winds. Friday extends fair, cool conditions with a high near 70 and southerly winds 5 to 10 mph. A cold front moved across Texas earlier, triggering showers and isolated storms in the High Plains and West Texas, while rest of state stays fair to partly cloudy. Readings at 4 a.m. ranged from 52 at Marfa to 76 at Brownsville. Central Texas winds S 10 to 20 mph, East Texas SE under 10 mph, behind-front NW N 10 to 15 mph. Extended forecasts show region-wide variations with cooler nights and mild days. A jogger in Rogers, Arkansas enjoys a cooler autumn morning as summer heat fades.
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Permian Basin
National Weather Service
Texas
High Plains
Panhandle
Big Bend
Actress Eileen Brennan in Critical Condition After Car Crash
LOS ANGELES AP Actress Eileen Brennan 48 in critical condition after being struck by a car while walking across a Venice street with Goldie Hawn. Both Brennan and Hawn injured Brennan with skull and facial fractures and possible internal injuries. Hawn unharmed. Driver, 29, stayed at scene. speeding ticket possible. Skid marks showed about 50 mph in a 30 mph zone.
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Los Angeles
Eileen Brennan
Private Benjamin
Venice
Goldie Hawn
Harry Ryon
Brennan
Ryon
Hawn
Benjamin
Ryan
Odessa Mail Subscriptions Offerings and Delivery Contact
The listing outlines six month and three month subscription options for Imo Daily and Sunday editions with prices and mentions second class postage. It also lists a delivery problems contact number 337 7314 and hours for reporting issues before 10 30 a.m. on weekdays.
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Imo
Council split over higher incomes for some on council
Seabolt questioned the need for a higher percentage rise and admitted possible past missteps while agreeing growth requires service upgrades. Sivalls supported improvements to sustain Odessa's growth, noting tax shifts from water and sewer rate changes. The 42nd Street water station was cited as aging, with calls about consumption predominating over rate complaints.
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Seabolt
Weddell
Keith
Dick Sivalls
Odessa
Sivalls
Lone Ranger
42Nd Street
Golder Avenue
Harrison
Odessa weighs bond sale rate cuts amid water sewer upgrade
City officials debated delaying a $11.5 million water and sewer bond issue after rate hikes. Some urged pausing to protect bond ratings, while others warned against undermining projects spanning Yukon Road pump station, a new storage reservoir, and major sewer lines to serve growing areas. Bond ratings may be announced early next week as the plan proceeds.
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Harrison
Bryant
New York
Odessans
John Mason
el Paso Products
Colorado River
Ocie Holcomb
E. 10Th St
Holcomb
Barbara Park
Weddell
Yukon Road
42Nd Street
Golder Avenue
Utility Administration
Brittany Lane
Bankhead Highway
Ratliff Ranch
Lawndale
Odessa
Mission Country Club
White seeks order vacating execution stay in O'Bryan case
Texas Attorney General Mark White plans to send aide Leslie Benitez to Washington to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to lift the stay of execution for Ronald Clark O'Bryan, the Death Row inmate known as the Candy Man. The 5th Circuit panel ruling questions trial fairness and excludes jurors, with a Jan. 24 hearings window set and O'Bryan declared a pauper.
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New Orleans
Texas
Mark White
Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Ronald Clark O’bryan
O’bryan
Deer Park
United States
White
Leslie Benitez
Byron White
Houston
Duncan
Death by Injections: Texas Moves to End Old Methods
A Texas shift to lethal injection ends the electric chair Old Sparky and defines medical roles in executions. Doctors debate ethics while lawmakers set the scene at Ellis Unit death row. Final hours outline shows last meals visits and a curtain reveal before the injection.
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Carroll L. Boone
Harris County Medical Society
R. Vernon Colpitts
Houston
American Medical Society
Texas
Ellis Unit
Huntsville
W. J. Estelle
Texas Department of Correction
Rick Hartley
Walls
Death Row
Hartley
Rourke
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Ches
West Texas
Lake Atlanta
Rogers
Ark
INOAA
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
Longview
Abilene
Lubbock
Lufkin
Alice
Amarillo
Marfa
Austin
McAllen
Beaumont
Midland
Brownsville
Palacios Childress
San Angelo
College Station
San Antonio
Shreveport,La
Corpus Christi
Dathart
Stephenville
Dallas
Texarkana
del Rio
Victoria
Waco
el Paso
Fort Worth
Wichita Falls
Galveston
Wink
LaBamba
Chuck
Las Vegas
N.M
Charles
Jesuit Seminary
Fourth Street
Odessa American
P.O
Council
Richard Windhorst
Appeals Court
Texas Civil Liberties Union
John Duncan
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