Witness opens up about postal worker’s death
During a phone interview on Friday afternoon, Melyssa Hill relived the horrific events she experienced six months ago when she was face to face...
Poet and teacher reflects on upcoming honor
Reagan Magnet Elementary School music teacher and poet Loretta Diane Walker has earned many honors, the latest is her upcoming induction into the Texas...
Details emerge about teen’s death
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in a series of stories detailing the events of Odessa’s Aug. 31 mass shooting. The stories are based on police...
Report offers look into moments before shootings
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in a series of stories detailing the events of Odessa’s Aug. 31 mass shooting. The stories are based on police...
Compass art teacher inspired to create portrait of Leilah
Like many Odessans, Compass Academy Charter School art teacher Adam Cross had never lived in a community impacted by a mass shooting.
But on Aug....
Odessa will never be the same
Many of us will remember 2019 as a year of tragedy in Odessa.
We’re no strangers to crime or violence here in West Texas. Stabbings,...
Mass shooting survivor credits miracle
An Oklahoma family will spend the weekend in Pecos finally finishing a trip that was interrupted Labor Day weekend when they faced terror on...
Meeting addresses donations
The Odessa Community Foundation Inc. has raised more than $1 million to assist the seven people killed and 25 others injured during the Aug....
Fund raises $1 million-plus for victims, families of mass shooting
The Odessa Community Foundation has raised more than $1 million to help families of the deceased and victims who were hospitalized as a result...
THE BIG FIGHT: Odessan’s battle was 75 years ago
BY RALPH LITTLE
Special to the Odessa American
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ralph Little is a retired Army officer in Jacksonville, Fla., who wrote this piece about longtime...