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Vicki Lusk, left, district director for the Society for Human Resource Management, presents a certificate of a new human resource management charter to local president Ruth Giron. The local group has been meeting since 2008 but became part of the national group this year.

NRC OKs license application request

Hobbs’ newest nuclear-related project surpassed a milestone Monday when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted the company’s license application.
Idaho-based International Isotopes Inc. is plans to build a $80 million uranium deconversion facility 15 miles west of Hobbs that would extract fluorine gas from the uranium hexafluoride tails for use in medical equipment and microprocessor manufacturing. The facility is expected to employ 125-150 staff after construction of phase 1. … Read more.

Stolen backhoe Crime of the Week

Workers at a D&D Pipeline in Hobbs arrived at a work site on Monday to find something missing.
A 15,000 pound backhoe that had been locked up the night before was gone. … Read more.

SunEdison looking beyond 20 years

SunEdison, which plans to build five solar power plants in Lea and Eddy counties within two years, wants a longer history in the area than the 20-year contract with Xcel Energy.
Jared Schoch, director of utility sales for SunEdison, addressed an audience of more than 50 at a luncheon held by the Economic Development Corporation of Lea County Wednesday. Schoch said the Lea/Eddy project is one of the largest in the world and the company foresees a long tenure in the area. … Read more.

Police Report

- 87 calls for service

- 15 criminal incidents

- Two noncriminal incidents

- Four accidents

- 12 arrests

Death Notices

Larry Lee Brooks

Jesse Pate

Rosemary Turnbull

Leo G. Essman

Antonio TorresÙ

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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 7:21 p.m. EST

Pelosi: Dems close on health care agreement
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues despite persistent Republican efforts to knock them offstride. Obama himself, rallying support outside Washington for the second time this week, shouted to a crowd in Missouri, "The time for talk is over. It's time to vote."

US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal. Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians.

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal
WASHINGTON (AP) - They flew planes during World War II but weren't considered real military pilots. No flags were draped over their coffins when they died on duty. And when their service ended, they had to pay their own bus fare home. These aviators - all women - got long-overdue recognition on Wednesday. They received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress, in a ceremony on Capitol Hill.

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