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The Pecos County Commissioners Court approved a major tax abatement agreement on January 12 for a $5.5 billion artificial intelligence data center project, alongside a new 200-unit housing development intended to support the county’s growing workforce.

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The Fort Stockton City Council convened January 12 to authorize a $7.5 million financing package for critical infrastructure and to pay tribute to a city employee with four decades of service. Mayor Paul Casias presided over the meeting, which opened with an invocation by Councilman Darren Hodges that included a prayer for rain and the recovery of Councilman Kenneth Ripley, who was absent from the evening’s meeting.

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Editor's note: It is important to note that an arrest should not be considered evidence of guilt, all defendants are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The following list is provided by the Pecos County Sheriff's Department.

Dear Neil, My HOA has gradually been replacing ornamental peach trees along one of our streets with yaupon hollies. Would you recommend Nellie R.

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The new year is not so far advanced that its character is already fixed and lost to the guidance of the best from the last year (the past). In that spirit we would do well to celebrate the better of recent efforts to, as religious folk tend to say, bless community. Insofar as the best of the 2025 FROM THE PULPIT columns go, I claim my turn at the grinder (read keyboard) to nominate a column offered up by Father Michael Wallens, who serves St. Stephens here in Ft. Stockton. Confronted as we are with so much enemy making and retributive brutality, his thoughts on preserving human dignity as biblical and incumbent on Christians and other God-fearers are more than germane.

Former Dallas DJ now hosts one of the most popular podcasts on Spotify Platform One of Dallas radio’s most legendary DJs was Mike Rhyner. After getting his start on the infamous KZEW FM (“The Zoo”) he went on the even bigger things as the. Host of The Hardline show on DFW sports talk radio, The Ticket (KTCK).