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To create opportunities for others who shared her goal, Odessa Jenkins started her own professional full-contact league for ...

Measles had struck this West Texas town, sickening dozens of children, but at the Community Church of Seminole, more than 350 ...

EL PASO, Texas — Three U.S. Army soldiers from Fort Cavazos have pleaded guilty to a migrant smuggling attempt following a high-speed U.S. Border Patrol chase in West Texas last fall, the U.S.

Jesse Headrick, 26, and 24-year-old Araya Renae Franklin were both charged with child endangerment. Trump grants US ...

A woman's fully-loaded moving truck was stolen at an Albuquerque hotel, as she was moving from Texas to Oregon.

An Odessa man is facing felony drug charges after detectives found 12 grams of fentanyl-laced pills in his possession along with crack cocaine and marijuana. According to an Odessa Police Department ...

Ron Inge, the former chief investigator with the Ector County Medical Examiner's Office, was arrested last week on suspicion of child grooming, a third-degree felony. According to City of Odessa news ...

Heather Russell, 34, was arrested for attempted promotion of prostitution, and 72-year-old Ron Inge was arrested for child ...

The Odessa College men's and women's track and field teams will compete at the NJCAA Indoor Championships this week in ...

ODESSA, Texas — A motorcyclist was killed in a crash late Monday night after running a red light at the intersection of ...

In an effort to bring faith beyond the walls of the church, Connection Christian Church took to the streets on Ash Wednesday, ...