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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.
Very early on March 5, 2019, Midland, Texas, United States, police officer Nathan Heidelberg (born December 2, 1990 [1]) was shot and killed while responding with fellow officers to a residence where a burglar alarm had gone off, the first Midland police officer killed on the job in over 50 years. [2]
David Dowler was born in 1953 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the elder son of an USAF colonel and his Japanese wife. Described as a caring boy by family members, David attended the Sandia High School, where he was an above average student, taking part in the wrestling team and in karate, earning a black belt. [3]
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.
Among the injured were three police: a Texas state trooper, a Midland police officer, and an Odessa police officer. The youngest victim was a wounded 17-month-old child. [13] One of the dead was a USPS postal worker, age 29, who had been driving the postal service truck Ator hijacked. [19]
Midland–Odessa is a metropolitan area located in The Texas Plains approximately half-way between El Paso and Fort Worth, Texas.This combined statistical area (CSA) is made up of two metropolitan statistical areas (the Midland MSA and the Odessa MSA) and one micropolitan statistical area (Andrews μSA), and comprises four counties: Andrews, Ector, Martin, and Midland counties.
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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-largest city in Texas; it is the principal city of the Odessa metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ector County.