This interactive map is updated every hour and shows confirmed COVID-19 cases by county across the U.S. The maps updates every hour.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday halted elective surgeries in Texas’ biggest counties and said the state would “pause” its aggressive re-opening as it deals with a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that has made it one of the nation’s virus hotspots. The suspension of elective surgeries is designed to protect hospital space in the Dallas, …

Lea County cumulative total added seven positive tests for COVID-19 on Wednesday. This is after the county added four new positive cases on Tuesday and eight positive tests on Monday. The county now has 86 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the state began tracking test results. Of those 86 cases, the state says 23 have been designated …

PHOENIX (AP) — It wasn’t quite one of his signature big-stadium rallies. But President Donald Trump drew something closer to the jam-packed audience of political supporters he’s been craving as hundreds of young conservatives filled a Phoenix megachurch Tuesday to hear his call for them to get behind his reelection effort. The crowded Dream City Church for the gathering of …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A powerful earthquake centered near the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco on Tuesday killed at least five people, swayed buildings in Mexico City and sent thousands fleeing into the streets. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said one person was killed in a building collapse in Huatulco, Oaxaca. Otherwise he said reports were of minor damage …

Lea County cumulative total added four positive tests for COVID-19 on Tuesday. The county now has 79 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the state began tracking test results. Of those 79 cases, the state says 22 have been designated as totally recovered. In Lea County as of Tuesday, there has been tests on 4,125 people, with 79 …

Dorothy Runnels is described as a great force who devoted her life to New Mexicans. “I love being a New Mexican and I love being an American,” Dorothy said in a News-Sun article in April 2015. A life in politics next to her husband, former U.S. Representative Harold Runnels, Dorothy became a political force for decades. That love for America, …

Lea County cumulative total added eight positive tests for COVID-19 on Monday and one positive test on Sunday. The county now has 75 residents who have tested positive for COVID-19 since the state began tracking test results. Of those 75 cases, the state says 21 have been designated as totally recovered. In Lea County as of Monday, there has been tests …

After allegedly beating a woman and stealing her purse, Ricardo Utajara was arrested and charged with robbery. Utajara, 30, of Lovington, was arrested on Tuesday after the victim was sent to Nor Lea Hospital in Lovington for injuries she sustained during the assault. A Lea County Sheriff’s criminal complaint states the victim was driving home early in the morning on …

LOVINGTON — Completion of the $30-35 million Lea County Judicial Complex may yet happen, hopefully in about six months. That timing would be about four years after construction began and about two-and-a-half years after it was contracted to be completed. It’s been eight months of legal wrangling since the county terminated its contract with Albuquerque-based HB Construction, the initial contractor …