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Ector County Commissioners on Tuesday will take the first step in securing a new courthouse for Ector County to replace what officials call a failing and out-of-date facility. The court will begin the ...

Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal ...

Ector County ISD school board members traveled to San Antonio last week for the Mexican American School Boards Association (MASBA) annual conference. For the third year in a row, they left with an ...

The injured trooper was identified by the Texas DPS Troopers Foundation as Kevin Ramirez Vasquez, a U.S. Army veteran and ...

Two Ector County ISD and a Monahans-Wickett-Pyote ISD graduate were celebrated at a job signing event at Medical Center ...

Trooper Kevin Ramirez Vasquez, a U.S. Army veteran and recent graduate of DPS class A-23, was critically injured while ...

ECISD received an award for Outstanding Special Education Initiative and Outstanding Workforce Development Initiative.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

A DPS trooper was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital Tuesday morning after being struck by a vehicle while on duty in Ector County.

A 33-year-old Odessa man was arrested Sept. 12 after authorities said he shot another man four times. According to an Ector County Sheriff's Office report released Wednesday, deputies were dispatched ...

Plans for a joint youth correctional center for Midland and Ector counties have shifted, with the newly announced $40 million ...