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Permian Basin leaders make case for new interstate route
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The race is on for extending Interstate 27 from Oklahoma to the U.S.-Mexico border and Permian Basin leaders are lobbying earnestly for the big road to run through here. Currently covering only the 121 miles between Lubbock a...
University of Texas professor pairs art with advocacy
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Christopher "Chris" Stanley is an associate professor of art at the University of Texas Permian Basin, but that identity falls far short of telling who he is. Tracing his development to experiences when he was 14 and in his l...
West Texan honored for international wheelchair donations
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Troy Allan Chesnut found true happiness seven years ago on a dirt road leading into Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana. The Odessa American reports Chesnut and an English Rotarian, Milton Frary, were on their way to give w...
West Texas plastic surgeon part of family of physicians
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — The deeper you get into the medical profession, says Dr. Matthew Brian Furst, the more apparent it becomes that it is a life like no other. The Odessa American reports the rewards are supreme and the stresses excruciating and y...
Family court judge in West Texas relies on life experiences
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — District Judge Sara Kate Billingsley remains exuberant in a field most judges find debilitating and how she manages it is a complex story about her mother's example, a support system of friends, a near-death experience and o...