Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppWhile the reality still hasn’t sunk in quite yet, James Reyos is already looking to the future. It’s a future in which he wants to help others who, like him, were wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to prison.On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared Reyos innocent of the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Ryan, a murder he spent 20 years in prison for.Reyos, 66, was convicted of beating Ryan, 49, to death at the Sage and Sand Motel in Odessa by an Ector County jury in June 1983 and sentenced to 38 years in prison. He...…Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppWhile the reality still hasn’t sunk in quite yet, James Reyos is already looking to the future. It’s a future in which he wants to help others who, like him, were wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to prison.On Wednesday, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals declared Reyos innocent of the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Ryan, a murder he spent 20 years in prison for.Reyos, 66, was convicted of beating Ryan, 49, to death at the Sage and Sand Motel in Odessa by an Ector County jury in June 1983 and sentenced to 38 years in prison. He...WW…

Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppIncluded in Ector County ISD’s $436,109,000 bond package is a career and technical education center that would be located on the south side of Ector County.Executive Director of CTE Ryan Merritt said the district offers 27 pathways in this type of education. Along with that, students at the center would be able to take their core classes in math, science, English and social studies. It will be a home campus for 400 students.“It has been labeled a center because it’s also going to serve 2,000 additional students that will come in and take...…Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppIncluded in Ector County ISD’s $436,109,000 bond package is a career and technical education center that would be located on the south side of Ector County.Executive Director of CTE Ryan Merritt said the district offers 27 pathways in this type of education. Along with that, students at the center would be able to take their core classes in math, science, English and social studies. It will be a home campus for 400 students.“It has been labeled a center because it’s also going to serve 2,000 additional students that will come in and take...WW…

Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppJust named the Oct. 17-19 Permian Basin International Oil Show’s 2023 Honoree, pioneer Odessa industrialist C. Richard “Dick” Sivalls says the past honorees whom he most admires are those who worked to build up their communities as well as their businesses.“It’s a nice honor,” Sivalls said Thursday. “I didn’t expect it, but I appreciate it.”The 44th man to be chosen the honoree since Houston Krump in 1952, he cited Dick Gillham, W.D. “Bill” Noel and E.G. Rodman as exemplary of his ideal and he said there are of course other past honorees...…Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppJust named the Oct. 17-19 Permian Basin International Oil Show’s 2023 Honoree, pioneer Odessa industrialist C. Richard “Dick” Sivalls says the past honorees whom he most admires are those who worked to build up their communities as well as their businesses.“It’s a nice honor,” Sivalls said Thursday. “I didn’t expect it, but I appreciate it.”The 44th man to be chosen the honoree since Houston Krump in 1952, he cited Dick Gillham, W.D. “Bill” Noel and E.G. Rodman as exemplary of his ideal and he said there are of course other past honorees...WW…

Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppAt times this season, the No. 4-ranked Odessa College volleyball team has made it look too easy.Now, the Lady Wranglers know what to expect from the rest of the teams in WJCAC as the team begins the second half of conference play this weekend.Odessa College wrapped up the first part of WJCAC play with another dominating, sweeping win, this time against Midland College as the Lady Wranglers won by scores of 25-9, 25-12, 25-16 Wednesday at the OC Sports Center.The team now sits at 21-2 overall and 6-1 in conference play with that one loss...…Buy E-editionSubscribeFacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsAppAt times this season, the No. 4-ranked Odessa College volleyball team has made it look too easy.Now, the Lady Wranglers know what to expect from the rest of the teams in WJCAC as the team begins the second half of conference play this weekend.Odessa College wrapped up the first part of WJCAC play with another dominating, sweeping win, this time against Midland College as the Lady Wranglers won by scores of 25-9, 25-12, 25-16 Wednesday at the OC Sports Center.The team now sits at 21-2 overall and 6-1 in conference play with that one loss...WW…