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

Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis said the six-year-old boy missing since Friday night has been found safe. This came after ...

Authorities are searching for a missing child, who the Ector County Sheriff's Office and other officials believe is in "grave ...

Two counties house training programs in local high schools as officials pitch corrections jobs as gateways to criminal ...

A DPS trooper was airlifted to a Lubbock hospital Tuesday morning after being struck by a vehicle while on duty in Ector County.

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Chitty, too, confirmed the relationship and said they’d been intimate since January 2024, the report stated. He was booked into the Ector County jail on a $100,000 surety bond.

Cleveland County detention officers and Turn Key Health Clinics staff refused care and falsified records as 38-year-old mother Shannon Hanchett’s physical and mental health deteriorated, the federal ...

ODESSA, Texas — The Midland Crime Stoppers needs the public's help locating 20-year-old Frank Ronquillo who is wanted for ...

Trooper Kevin Ramirez Vasquez, a U.S. Army veteran and recent graduate of DPS class A-23, was critically injured while ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Ector County Independent School District board members traveled to San Antonio last week for the Mexican American School Boards Association (MASBA) annual conference.