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

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

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released more information about the trooper who was seriously injured while working ...

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 ...

Ector County Environmental Enforcement is needing help identifying the man responsible for the alleged illegal dumping.

A Texas state trooper was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital with serious injuries after he was hit by a car on duty Tuesday ...

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

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 ...

The Ector County ISD recently received a score of 88 percent by the Texas Education Administration for College, Career, and ...

Medical Center Hospital is hosting a hiring signing/celebration event with two Ector County ISD 2024 graduates and one Monahans-Wickett-Pyote ISD 2024 graduate at noon Sept. 19. The event will take ...

A Texas Department of Public Safety state trooper is facing life-threatening injuries after a crash near Notrees, according ...