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Nov. 8—ODESSA — James Ratliff "Buzz" Hurt was the grandson of Ector County ranching pioneers Sarah Jane "Miss Sallie" Whittenburg Ratliff and Harvey Stewart "Bud" Ratliff. Miss Sallie and Bud ...
Odessa (/ ˌ oʊ ˈ d ɛ s ə /) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County. [4]Odessa's population was 114,428 at the 2020 census, making it the 34th-most populous city in Texas; it is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ector County.
A photograph of McClure's rescue by Scott Shaw of the Odessa American received the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. [9] ABC made a television movie of the story in 1989, Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure, starring Beau Bridges and Patty Duke and featuring many participants from the actual rescue as extras.
Noël worked to establish the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, which opened in Odessa with barely a thousand students in 1973. [3] In 1974, Noël and his wife, the former Ellen Witwer (March 21, 1914 – May 1, 2008), [2] with an initial outlay of $245,525, endowed the Ellen and Bill Noël Scholarship Fund at UTPB.
The Odessa American will be looking back at five different games from each decade. This one is a look back at the 1980s. 1980- Permian 14, Odessa High 14 The headline in the Odessa American said ...
OPD honors fallen hero. Tribune. Odessa American, Texas. September 10, 2024 at 11:46 AM. Sep. 10—The Odessa Police Department Honor Guard had the privilege of attending the funeral this past ...
A Prayer for the City (1998) Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction novel written by H. G. Bissinger, following the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship.
Kiss and Kill. " Kiss and Kill " refers to the March 20, 1961 homicide of Betty Williams, a teenager from Odessa, Texas, United States. She was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Mack Herring (September 23, 1943 [1] – January 5, 2019) at her own request in Winkler County, Texas. Herring was tried and acquitted for the killing after his lawyers ...