Odessa-Midland, Texas News

Recruiting help
The board of the Odessa Development Corp.
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Police Blotter: October 10, 2008
Numbered addresses of locations where crimes occur are rounded to the nearest hundred block.
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Sex education
School Health Advisory Council members met Thursday and voted to recommend to trustees the hiring of two teachers to work with junior high sex education next year.
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Newbies
Maybe it was the debates, all the TV ads or the historic choice in this year's presidential election.
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Treat for volunteers
The Association of Volunteer Professionals will say thank you to volunteer directors, administrators and managers Wednesday.
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Computer Learning Month
This one's for the technology impaired.
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MADD about drunk driving
Ector Junior High students Brailand Calhoun, 15, from right, tells the story of the Lindsey family from Seminole as Steven Brown, 14, holds a photo of the family's children Thursday at the school during a campaign to decrease drunk driving fatalities.
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Shooting death
The Ector County Sheriff's Office is investigating a deadly shooting, after a call came in at 1:23 a.m.
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Urias sentenced
Jurors sentenced 48-year-old Alonso Torres Urias to three life sentences Thursday this morning on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child younger than 14 and one count of indecency with a child.
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Think tank
With a little more money to work with this year, a room of United Way volunteers from the city of Odessa met Thursday morning to try and come up with creative ways to fund-raise for United Way. "Let's get excited," Gapi Bernal said.
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