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WINKLER COUNTY, Texas — An Odessa man is dead after a reported explosion in Winkler County on Saturday afternoon, according ...

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"The Nazis burned Jews just because they were Jews and the Ukrainian Nazis burned Russian people in Odessa on May 2, 2014 only because they were Russians," the minister said ...

The Winkler County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after an explosion left an Odessa man dead Saturday afternoon. According ...

Anthony Gallegos Ramon, Santos Roman and Keemadrick Sauls were all indicted on June 24 in the April 7 capital murder case.

After my article about the NATO summit, which was in fact more a publicity show than anything else, I would like to give a ...

Three men face capital murder charges after an 8-year-old boy was shot and killed on April 7 in Odessa, Texas. A grand jury returned indictments this week.

Tucked away in southern New Castle County, Odessa is the kind of place most people zip past on Route 13, perhaps noticing the ...

The victim was Robert Howard Dowersox, though many in Odessa knew him by a different name, Bob Sewell Jr. He also went by “Bob Little” and “Bobby Sewell,” and was nicknamed “Little Bob.” He was just ...

It was a summer day in 1984 when a young man’s body was found discarded along a West Odessa oilfield road. He had been shot ...

Neighbors in the Ashley Lakes neighborhood got an unexpected visit Wednesday night: a black bear was spotted roaming the area ...