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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 2012
Page
1
The Colorado River Municipal Water District reports a use limit for San Francisco deliveries on August 31. The data shows deliveries measured in millions of gallons, outlining the volume allocation or restriction applicable to that date.
The Andrews County Expo Center hosts the Tumbleweed Festival over today and Sunday with a ranch rodeo cowboy poetry barbecue fajita cookoff kids rodeo chuckwagon breakfast mechanical bull and nightly dances featuring vendors. Seaman Andre Johnson a fireman machinist in the U S Navy returns home on two weeks leave at 4 14 p m Sunday after serving aboard USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf and Operation Enduring Freedom. He will report back to duty in Norfolk Virginia after leave.
Rickey Lovell Taylor, one of several accused escapees from Ector County Detention Center, is scheduled for a murder trial on September 25 for the February 2009 shooting death of Johnny Lee Mackey. Taylor, once deemed incompetent, has been found competent to stand trial alongside co-defendant John Dana Bailey, charged with capital murder in a separate case involving Dustyn Bailey Wright.
Hurricane Isaac drove up the national average gasoline price to 3.83 per gallon, a 10 cent weekly rise. Analysts say the surge is ending but drivers face high costs for the holiday weekend with prices likely to drift higher then fall after Labor Day.
Texas Tech University staff member leads a student through a challenging mine field at the YMCA while partner students direct them. Bonham choi students and Hood Junior High choir join in team building activities to foster cooperation and unity.
Bonham choir director Hilary Pyott led 93 students in a YMCA day of teamwork activities to blend 14 new Hood Junior High transfers into the Bonham ensemble. The transfer students join returning choir members as the district removed ninth graders from Hood.
Texas Parks and Wildlife agents investigate the deaths of several doves around Odessa Midland and Big Spring. NE necropsy results show no conclusive cause yet while additional disease screening and tox results are pending. potential poisons not ruled out. Ergot seeds suggested as a possible factor by local expert Burr Williams.
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