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WEST ODESSA, Texas — At Kellus Turner Community Center, Permian Basin Red Cross (PBRC) held their "Sound the Alarm" event. Red Cross volunteers gave away and/or installed 240 smoke alarms to ...

The Odessa Police Department has issued a warning to drivers following a series of crashes attributed to a certain traffic ...

Red Cross volunteers gave away and/or installed 240 smoke alarms to about 60 families across the Permian Basin. They were further assisted by Odessa Fire Rescue and volunteer students from Ector ...

Any screenwriter would be interested in the life of war veteran Mikhail Golmanov. He narrowly survived his first battle, ...

Apart from Argentina, I had an apartment, a salvation office, that’s what it was called, in the city of Bern, Switzerland.

According to an Odessa Police Department report, in late January, officers responded to the 900 block of W 31st Street after ...

The American Red Cross has multiple blood drives scheduled in the News 5 area as they are down thousands of donations.

Mary, Queen Of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44. 1601: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, leads ...