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Two Black members of Congress give testimony at the state capitol. At stake: political maps that would break up communities of color. We'll have the latest on the fight over representation and redistricting in Texas. And: It started as a petition to force the hiring of more police officers. Now, why a local proposition could have echoes and reverberations statewide. Also: An estimated 40% of Texas nursing home workers are unvaccinated. How a change in the law may create a shortage of nursing home workers, and the help that facilities are asking for from the state. Those stories and so muc...

A Murderer Walks Free July 9 th, 1984 was the last time anyone saw 26-year-old Dorothy Jean (Butcher) Purcell, or as her friends knew her “Dottie”.  She was last seen the Four Seasons Nursing Home at 3800 Englewood Lane in Odessa, where she worked as a licensed vocational nurse. Screenshot of nursing home She’s good natured, quite, and according to police interviews, well-liked by all her co-workers.  One of her co-workers, Rita Evans, director of nursing at Four Seasons Nursing Center, reported that she was quite and did her work well.  She tells reporters that she didn’t look lik...

365 Days of Texas True Crime: Elida In July of 1981, a young woman begins work for the Odessa Police Department Traffic Division as a meter maid.  She played varsity volley ball in 1979 for Ysleta High School in El Paso, Tx where most of her family is from.  She had only been on the job with the police department for four months when she was found murdered, still partially clothed in her meter maid uniform. On November 8 th, 1981, the nude body of Elida Salmeron, just 18 years old, was found strangled to death with a mans sock, still wrapped around her neck, in a remote area north of Inters...

Updated: 8:04 PM CDT May 24, 2021 TEXAS, USA — In a press release, the Texas Department of Transportation announced that beginning Tuesday there will be a seal coat project spanning several local counties through early June. According to TxDOT, seal coating is key in prolonging the life of these roads.  Due to the rough condition of the roads being worked on during the project, drivers are encouraged to find alternate routes.  The locations being worked on, as well as predicted dates for the work, are listed below.  MAY 25-26  MAY 25-27  Pecos County: 23 mil...

Famed portrait photographer Dan Winters shifted his focus to a new character, the Permian Basin, as the storied region weathered a historic oil bust. Pump jack with flare in the distance near Knott. Photograph by Dan Winters The Permian Basin has a way of making you feel small. The sheer scale of its geography, the never-ending horizon, that big sky. Traveling through this dusty, mostly flat, nearly treeless region of West Texas, one gets a sense of being at sea, adrift in an expanse of red dirt, the monotony broken occasionally by shin oak, sand dunes, pump jacks, the steel spikes of ...