Midland County opens its first morgue

As of Thursday, Midland County no longer has to send bodies to Ector County.

- Across the street from the courthouse, Midland County now has access to a local morgue thanks to the conversion of a property owned by the county into one.

“County’s owned the property for quite a while… It wasn’t being utilized. There was going to have to be a tremendous amount of money spent on it to make it an office b…