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The Odessa Police Department reported 23 crashes between 4 a.m. and noon today, all attributed to the icy weather conditions.

An Odessa man has been charged in connection to a collision on I-70 he caused by allegedly drunkenly speeding down the wrong ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP)—Students and administrators at Bay District Schools told NewChannel 7 they are looking forward ...

A 57-year-old Odessa man was killed Thursday in an early morning crash on SH 349. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, an Ohio man was driving a tractor-trailer west on SH 349 an an ...

Beginning Friday, January 10, E. Murphy St., between Simm St. and S. Muskingum Ave., will be closed to thru traffic due to utility service work, a City of Odessa news release said. This closure is ...

The Texas Department of Transportation is investigating after an early morning crash left one Odessa resident dead on ...

Sheniel Nicholas Samuels, 27, was driving at an "unsafe speed for the icy road conditions" and veered into the eastbound lane ...

After the state missed the Jan. 1 deadline, lawmakers still have time to approve administrative costs before applying for ...

With a thorny ethical dilemma at its core and clever use of its natural surroundings, Thordur Palsson’s “The Damned” is a film concerned with moral and physical claustrophobia. Taking place ...

Some residents of West Odessa are rallying to bring full-time fire and EMS services to the area with the launch of a petition for an Emergency Services District (ESD). The deadline to sign is Jan. 9.