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A video sent to NewsWest 9 appears to show Ector County patrol units speeding down Farm-to-Market Road 181, chasing after a suspect in a white Dodge truck.

Floyd was an Ector County juvenile probation officer who was pursuing her master's degree at UTPB in the Clinical Psychology ...

Ector County ISD Chief of Police Jeff Daniels gave an update to the community on ECISD’s operations in Kerrville after ...

A West Texas juvenile probation officer, Jayda Floyd, and others died in Kerr County floods. The community mourns, honors ...

Students from area high schools join the Conservation Jobs Corps for hands-on STEM and ecology experience at the I-20 ...

Ector County leaders held an emergency meeting Monday morning following the partial collapse of a storage building behind the ...

Ector County officials are preparing to welcome home Jayda Floyd, a beloved juvenile detention officer who died during the ...

Officials say Floyd and her fiancé, Odessa Police Officer Bailey Martin, along with his family, were camping in their RV when ...

The Ector County Commissioners Court is scheduled to choose a consulting firm Tuesday to help them spend $32 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

The Ector County school district boosted student learning but now faces financial uncertainty. It closed schools and cut costs to stay afloat, but it won’t slash teacher jobs.