Loyalty to Donald Trump demands more than many people can muster. One Cabinet officer and high-level aide after another has repeatedly endured ill treatment only to finally leave rather than accept further indignities. But no subservience is too much for Mike Pence.

ALPINE The Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine is the proud recipient of a Humanities Texas Relief Grant.

ALPINE One of the crown jewels of West Texas, the Museum of the Big Bend, has recently been named in the top ten from True West magazine.

>> 1975: On this date, the Midland Cubs were basking in being declared co-champions of the Texas League with Lafayette (La.). The teams were declared co-champions when rain washed out the deciding game of the best-of-five series in Lafayette. Lafayette won the first two games played in Midland before the Cubs won the next two. It was the first league championship for the Midland ball club.

Andrews quarterback E.J. Lopez has already proven to have a good grasp on the Mustangs’ offense just two weeks into the season.

As a way of getting students interested in an industry vital to the Permian Basin and giving them a nudge toward college, University of Texas Permian Basin is offering a dual credit geosciences course this year.

Mark Matta, 44, is running for the city council district one seat, he said, because he wants to bring better representation to the whole district.

Nineteen years after 9/11, a display at Memorial Gardens Park will continue to memorialize the victims and celebrate Odessa’s first responders.

In a socially distanced, mask-wearing ceremony, about 50 volunteer deputy registrars were sworn in outside the University of Texas Permian Basin library Tuesday.

A 19-year-old woman was arrested after she reportedly assaulted an 82-year-old woman.