A Borger fifth-grader was killed in a fall from an oil field pump jack Saturday evening, authorities said. Keara Joelyn Brown, 11, suffered the fatal fall just before 6 p.m. Saturday near a residence ...

(Left) An electronic sign in downtown Midland displays several messages, including the the price of oil that day. (Right) The sun catches on the side of a building downtown. Out on the wide open ...

State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn’s plan to place an oil field pump jack in front of the State Land Office is an echo of a similar move by one of his predecessors that generated a controversy in ...

An oil worker was decapitated by a pump jack south of Rawlins on Wednesday. Peter Robinson, 46, of Rawlins, slipped at a well site and was struck by the counterweight on the pump, according to a ...

Climbing onto an oil field pump jack in nothing but skivvies and pasties is not the worst thing a candidate for statewide office has done lately. Sarah Stogner, an oil and gas attorney and ...

Out on the wide open plains of West Texas, you can see the horizon for 360 degrees, interrupted only by the nodding up and down of pump jacks pulling oil up out of the earth. There lies the aptly ...