Pyote News

After months of delays, two former Texas Youth Commission administrators have been ordered to appear in court.

When legislators and prosecutors realized a sex abuse case at a remote West Texas juvenile prison had languished in the hands of a local district attorney for two years, they vowed to move the case swiftly forward as the graphic allegations created a statewide scandal.

An Odessa judge is now handling the cases against two former West Texas youth prison officials accused of repeatedly sexually abusing teenage inmates.

The Texas Civil Rights Project wants to know why it's taken more than two years to try a pair of ex-youth prison officials accused of sexually abusing inmates.

PYOTE A Maywood, Calif., man was killed and three people were taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa after their pickup crashed into an overpass pillar Thursday afternoon on Interstate 20 near SH 118 in Pyote, Department of Public Safety communications operator Ronald Dawley said.

As legislative negotiators tried Tuesday to tie up the remaining loose ends in the 2010-11 budget, the fate of two Texas Youth Commission lockups had them in knots.

As the budget conference committee comes to a compromise between the House and Senate versions of the budget, Rep.

The sales tax numbers for April are out and it's tough news for Odessa. Compared to April of 2008, the collection numbers are down about five percent.

WARD COUNTY A Pyote man was killed in an accident early Friday morning on Interstate 20 east of Monahans, Department of Public Safety communications officer Patricia Deishler said.

The Texas Youth Commission announced today that 430 positions will be eliminated throughout the agency effective March 1. Most of the positions being eliminated are not filled at this time, so the reduction in ...

Less than a year after the last battle, David Cutbirth is ready to fight again to keep the West Texas State School in Pyote.