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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 2008
Page
1
A brief item notes a humorous Photoshop effort circulating online. The piece highlights playful edits and the public reaction, noting how digital image manipulation can blur lines between parody and misinformation.
Three Christian rock bands perform at 7 p.m. today at Midland Center 105 North Main Street with tickets 25 dollars for VIP and 15 dollars general admission. For details call 699-5914 or 522-1212 and visit barlowgirl com. A separate event features Dr Kendal Stewart and Dr Norman Fry at Odessa Regional Medical Center East Campus 7 to 9 p.m. discussing new autism and neurosensory diagnostics with noninvasive brain function evaluation. For information call 582-2285. A scavenger hunt on oapa com offers a $400 gift card from H E B for gas or groceries with an extra entry via religion stories. Visit oapa com for details.
Houston reports gasoline prices rising for a third day while power returns to Gulf Coast refineries after Hurricane Ike. At least 14 Texas facilities closed before landfall, cutting more than 20 percent of national refining capacity. Utilities resume. Valero, Exxon Mobil push for restart as futures dip below 100 a barrel.
Three days after Hurricane Ike struck Galveston, rescue teams faced a wrecked coastal scene with ruined subdivisions, oil slicks, desolate streets and 27 mile wasteland. At PayCo Marina survivors on boats recall the brutal storm as Gilchrist and Bolivar Peninsula face the hardest damage. Local authorities report few residents remaining, and rescue crews describe widespread destruction as they search for survivors. Page references note caskets, Midwest remnant havoc, and a levee concern at Presidio.
Mufioz, a 52 year old Odessa College dean and longtime community volunteer, will leave Odessa after nearly 30 years to become vice president of continuing education at Tarrant County College Trinity River campus in downtown Fort Worth. Community leaders praise his work as he joins a new college. See MUNOZ Page 7A
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