According to jail records, at least two people have been charged with Kidnapping, a third-degree felony, following the Friday ...

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

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — An amber alert has been issued for a six-year-old boy who went missing in Odessa, TX on ...

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The Ector County Utilities District, a water distribution operation that provides water to over 20,000 people in West Odessa, ...

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

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

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

An Ector County teen accused of murder in the 2023 fentanyl death of another teen has been arrested again after Judge Justin ...

The county halted construction in 2013 of a partially built jail, started in 2011, because the project's cost had ballooned $90 million over budget. But moving thousands of detainees into the ...

A teen charged with murder was taken into custody after escaping a detention center in Granville County on Monday. 17-year-old Zane Cesnik was captured Monday night after being on the run for ...

ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — The Ector County Sheriff's Office has been given all new equipment that range from new rifles, shotguns, handguns and more. Five years ago, seven people lost their lives in ...