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Jefferson Elementary student Zack Owens takes a photograph with the HHS basketball team as part of a school fundraiser. The players also encouraged students to stay in school.

Lovington hires new MainStreet director

Becky Griffin wasn’t planning to stay in Lovington long.
Originally returning to the Lea County seat after a 17-year absence for the illness of a family member, Griffin began to get involved in the community. … Read more.

New district judge sworn in

With his grandson holding a well-worn Bible and his wife, sons and granddaughters standing nearby, Hobbs attorney William Shoobridge was sworn in Wednesday as the new Division III judge in the Fifth Judicial District. … Read more.

Hobbs seeking remedy to MVD

Hobbs city commissioners issued an ultimatum to the state — take over operations of the Motor Vehicles Division by 2009 or don’t have an office in Hobbs. … Read more.

Police Report

- 149 calls for service

- 13 criminal incidents

- One noncriminal incident

- Six accidents

- Eight arrests

Death Notices

Elaine Neal Campbell

Raymond Harrison

James Wooldridge

Adela Hernandez

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Flooded Intersection

A man with the help of Hobbs Police pushes his car out of flood waters and into the parking lot of a local church on August 24, 2007

Man gets stranded

Video of a man whose car stalls in the flood near the intersection of Joe Harvey and Grimes in Hobbs on Aug. 24, 2007

Thriftway Fire

A fire in Hobbs, N.M. destroys the Thriftway supermarket. Firefighters attacked the blaze in the early hours of Saturday, April 21, 2007, but by morning it was clear the structure was beyond repair.

AP Top News at 7:50 p.m. EDT

Over 20 dead in Mo., Okla., Ga. after new round of storms
SENECA, Mo. (AP) - Search crews combed debris-strewn fields for possible tornado victims Sunday as residents picked through the remains of homes demolished by storms that smashed through the Plains and South, killing at least 21 people in three states. At least 14 people died in the sparsely populated countryside of southwestern Missouri, and searchers feared more bodies would be found. At least six people were killed in the fading mining town of Picher, Okla., and at least one person died in storms in Georgia.

Clinton goes from inevitable nominee to on the ropes
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win. Many people believed her victory in the Democratic nomination battle was a sure thing. Her ultimate failing may have been in believing it, too.

Boat carrying Myanmar aid sinks; toll climbs beyond 28,000
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone. The death toll jumped to more than 28,000 and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned that "malign neglect" by the isolated nation's military rulers was creating a "humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions."

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