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The family of an Andrews woman killed in a wreck in December have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. According to the lawsuit filed in Ector County District Court Monday, Misty Dawn Dorries, 37, was a passenger in a car being driven by Kent Taylor Alfred Beckett on Dec. 19, 2022 when he failed to yield the right of way at SE 1500 and U.S. 385 in Andrews County.

ANDREWS, Texas — The John R. Parrish Westbrook Village and F. Marie Hall Cottages Memory Care Unit is a 22-bed memory care unit at the Permian Regional Medical Center that has been built and designed to specifically cater to each of the dementia patients in Andrews that will be housed there.

Documents from the National Transportation Safety Board made public on Thursday afternoon revealed new details about a crash in Andrews County that took the lives of 9 people on March 15, 2022.

HOBBS, New Mexico — On March 15, 2022, tragedy struck the University of the Southwest golf team as they were traveling back home to Hobbs, New Mexico after competing in round one of the TankLogix tournament. Eight golf team members and the coach were in a van, and with about an hour left in their […]

ANDREWS COUNTY, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- It’s been one year since a deadly bus crash in rural Andrews County that left the Hobbs community, and the families of those killed, reeling. According to a Department of Public Safety spokesman, the crash happened around 8:17 p.m. on March 15, 2022, about a quarter of a mile north of […]

ANDREWS COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) - One year ago today, a van carrying the University of the Southwest men’s and women’s golf team was involved in a head-on crash on FM 1788 and Highway 115 in Andrews County. A tight-knit community rocked in one night. Nine people were lost...

HOBBS, N.M. — On March 15, 2022, a van carrying the University of the Southwest golf team was involved in a deadly crash on FM 1788 in Andrews County. The head-on collision with a pickup truck left nine people dead and and two injured. Six team members and their...

Last week, a freight train bound for Vernon derailed. Fortunately, it was empty. The train was on its way to the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to pick up a load of radioactive waste bound for Andrews County, Texas. Two years ago, a 12-axle tractor-trailer carrying empty nuclear waste casks...