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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 ...

Community members want to put an Emergency Service District on the May ballot through a petition. Their efforts hope to solve ...

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

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

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

A three-vehicle crash has resulted in the death of a 57-year-old male from Odessa. According to reports from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the fatal collision occurred at approximately 6:35 a ...

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

Political leaders have shunned the Alternative for Germany. But on his social media platform X, Mr. Musk is pitching the party as mainstream. By Jim Tankersley Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative ...

Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens. By Chris ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she believes Donald Trump won't disengage from Ukraine after he takes office this month. Addressing a news conference, Meloni said she does not believe ...