Snow Ignores Plains as West Texas Deals With Ice
West Texas sees iced highways and scattered sleet as a broad Arctic front moves through. Snow blankets the western Texas Panhandle with icy roads in Vega Channing Dalhart Stratford Dumas and Grover. Farther east heavy thunderstorms strike Polk County while another line brings light rain from Junction to near Del Rio. Temperatures range from 40s to 70s with forecasted showers and more cold weather ahead.
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Panhandle
Odessa
Whiteface
Lubbock
Midland
Snyder
Polk County
Texas
Shreveport
College Station
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Deal Rio
Dalhart
Pacific Northwest
New Mexico
Nebraska Panhandle
Pacific Coast
California
Canada
San Francisco
Panhandles
Oklahoma
Teens risk death for mushroom high in Texas
GALVESTON AP Texas teens chase hallucinogenic highs by eating poisonous mushrooms. University of Texas Poison Control Center head Michael Ellis cites six hospitalizations in Hitchcock and Dickinson, with three cases on a single night. A 19 year old mainland youth was treated after his friend brewed mushroom tea. A Houston area girl was also exposed to a toxic species.
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Galveston
Tex
Texas
Michael Ellis
University of Texas Poison Control Center
Hitchcock
Dickinson
Ellis
Alvin-Angleton
Foodway opens larger Pecos supermarket with 24000 square feet
Foodway celebrates the grand opening of a new 24000 square foot Pecos store adjacent to its former building. The chain's Albuquer que district, led by Bob Hobbs, plans a bakery addition this year. Ernest Ballard manages the branch with 32 local employees, reflecting strong community response.
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Foodway
Pecos
Hobbs
Wayne Disney
Ballard
Tucumcari
N. M
Proverb Warns Injured Dentist In Minnesota
RICHFIELD Minnesota AP Dr Lee Nelson a dentist is collecting autographs on the cast on his left arm after breaking his wrist in a ladder fall He showed a note read Proverbs 10 19 Advised by a friend to look up the scripture in the Living Bible He found this message A good man has a firm footing but a crook will slip and fall.
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Richfield, Minn
Lee Nelson
Nelson
Weekend travel off gas stations close
A Texas statewide DPS survey over the weekend found highway travel generally below normal as most gas stations were closed amid a voluntary gasoline sales ban. No major problems were reported, though complaints came from deer hunters and motorists in several regions about fuel and restroom availability.
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Department of Public Safety
Texas
DPS
Wharton County
Hill Country
Austin
Childress
Darlington
Rio Grande Valley
Midland
Ector County
Martin and
Crane
Houston
Wharton
Colorado
Fayette
Matagorda
Beaumont
Jeffer
Hardin
Jasper
Ozona
Sonora
Dallas
Kaufman County
Rockwall County
Tarrant
Denton
Oklahoma
Denton-Dallas
Alpine
Amarillo
Panhandle
Lampassas
del Rio
San Angelo
Corpus Christi
Robstown
Wichita Falls
Lufkin
Lubbock
el Paso
Sierra Blanca
New Mexico
Abilene
Smith Named Police Sergeant in Pecos Promotion
Police chief Gene Martin announced Charles Smith as Pecos police sergeant after a staff examination. Smith, a 19 year veteran with 13 years in Odessa, was chosen from four candidates with two points separating the top two. The promotion takes effect December 1.
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Atrolman
Charles Smith
Pecos
Gene Martin
Smith
Odessa
Martin
Monahans man dies in gas shortage linked crash
An 18 year old from Monahans, Steven G. Bingham, died when his car struck a guardrail near Colorado City and exploded after gasoline cans in the trunk ignited. DPS noted fuel shortages may have contributed amid a Texas energy crisis. Accident occurred about 5:55 a.m. Sunday with Bingham trapped in the burning wreckage. The weekend saw multiple traffic and other deaths statewide.
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Steven G. Bingham
Monahans
Bingham
Colorado City
Department of Public Safety
Midland
DPS
Texas
Boerne
Kendall County
Michael Lishka
Jimmy Dearling
San Angelo
Brenda Jay Walker
Marfa
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Fla
Nativity Scene
Santa Rosa
The
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Albuquerque
N.M
Bob Hobbs
Kimbell
Ernest Ballard
Son County
Chambers
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Hunt County
Tommy Galindo
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