McCamey News

Husband Arrested for Attempted Murder 6/29/09 CBS 7 News Staff June 29, 2009 MCCAMEY - 44-year-old Melissa Valles of McCamey is recovering after being stabbed several times by her common law husband.

MCCAMEY A man wanted in the McCamey stabbing of his common-law wife was arrested Monday morning in Nolan County, Upton County Sheriff Dan Brown said.

I recently heard a song on the radio that made me sad on two counts - the song itself is a tear-jerker and the singer was Dan Seals, a singer you don't hear much of anymore and who died way too young.

McCamey Woman's Study Club has an annual Style Show for McCamey and Rankin High School senior girls.

LCRA will host an open house tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Tally Elementary School cafeteria to answer questions about proposed transmission lines and lift station in Kerr County.

McCamey has a couple of new feathers to put in its cap. The town is on track to lose that spare tire and get a little makeover while it's at it.

While Assistant City Manager James Zentner took some ribbing for the bad news of a drop in Odessa sales tax revenue for the second time in 41 months, he had some brighter news at Thursday's Odessa Development Corp.

Keep Texas Beautiful is giving credit where credit is due. The Odessa division of the Texas Department of Public Safety and Lennerd Byrd are being recognized for their efforts to keep Odessa looking good.

Pop and country singer Dan Seals has died of complications of cancer in Nashville at age 61.

TPA needs judges for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspaper and Advertising contests this spring, and the best thing is you dona TMt even have to leave your newspaper to help.

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The McCamey Ministerial Alliance is accepting donations for this year's NOMAD program, which will bring retired skilled laborers to the city March 16 to help local residents check those household projects off ...

Two West Texas cities are mourning the loss of their local weekly newspapers after last week's announcement that both will stop the presses for good.

The following is a list of felony criminal activities reported to the police. February 6, 2009 - 5:30 PM ODESSA AMERICAN Numbered addresses of locations where crimes occur are rounded to the nearest hundred ...

Basin PBS won a national production award for the first season of its original production, "Quiz Show". General manager Daphne Dowdy Jackson accepted the award Jan.

Upton County Sheriff's officials said a former McCamey school teacher is in jail, charged with having an improper relationship between an educator and a student.

FORT STOCKTON Everyone knows about the numerous toy drives to ensure underprivileged children have a normal Christmas holiday season, but Roger Bennett used to wonder why there weren't drives for those folks ...