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Matt Rist CBS 7 News mrist@cbs7.com March 11, 2014 PERMIAN BASIN-Just under 500 customers are without power in the Loop 338 / Eastridge area.

Ector County in West Texas is suing an Odessa oil services company for as much as $1 million in fines for allegedly dumping thousands of gallons of toxic oil field chemicals down Odessa city sewers.

Amarillo City Council members gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a rate settlement with Atmos Energy that will result in an annual $2.85 million increase in payments from in-city customers in the Amarillo rate area, or an average of $2.68 a month for residential customers.

Nicolaas Koppert 03/11/14 It may be no surprise but a report released by TXDOT shows crashes are on the rise in West Texas.

One great thing about guns is they don't wear out nearly as quickly as pickup trucks.

The Austin Fire Department announced today that two members of the department have been chosen to share the 100 Club of Central Texas' "Outstanding Firefighter of the Year" award, which will be formally presented at a ceremony on April 4. Fire Specialist Reggie Tait and Firefighter Coitt Kessler are being lauded for their work on the West, Texas ... (more)

A sunny and warm day is expected. Highs will be in the 80's and even a few 90's.

This week, a couple stories that should cause anyone critically thinking to see that those wearing badges aren't always operating with the best intentions.

Over the weekend, vandals defaced most of "Prada Marfa," a public land art installation on the outskirts of the tiny farming town of Valentine, Texas, about a 2 hour drive southeast of El Paso.

CBS7 News 03/10/14 Law enforcement from all over West Texas are taking advantage of spring break by using empty classrooms to train.

UTSA College of Sciences faculty members Andrew Tsin, Garry Cole and Donald Kurtz were honored recently at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago.

Tending crops spread across three West Texas counties, Nickels often ended up sleeping in the fields and was running himself ragged trying to keep complex irrigation and agricultural equipment running.

CBS 7 News March 9, 2014 The roads out here in West Texas can be treacherous with the increased traffic.

I recently saw a movie, "The American Mustang", documenting the sickening cruelty of the Bureau of Land Management in rounding up the wild horses of the Western plains.

For 30 years, twice a day, Michell Bond has been feeding ducks at Capitol Lake. But, today she noticed a strange film covering the surface of the water.

Macey Meriggi CBS 7 News Mmeriggi@cbs7.com March 8, 2014 It's a historic sporting event here in the basin: the West Texas Relays but even after 70 years, this year marked another first.

If I can be forgiven a little piece of hometown news the halls of power in Lubbock, Texas, are abuzz with the notion that the city has a fair shot at landing Tesla's new $5 billion "Gigafactory" building the lithium-ion batteries that power its cars and those of some other automakers as well.

Conley and Geneva Esmond of Lamesa, who were brought to West Texas as children, remember how the driver of a horse-pulled wagon sometimes had to stop to open a gate before moving across ranchland where there were no roads.

Spring fever stopped by my house this week, but it is not based on the traditional arrival of hayfever, thunderstorms or balmy weather, at least not of this writing.

West Texas A&M coach Mark Kellogg said Friday night's Lone Star Conference Championship women's semifinal game reminded him of a heavyweight fight.