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

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

The search for a missing Odessa boy continued Saturday as investigators with the Ector County Sheriff’s Office, the Federal ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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.