Gabrielle Arsiaga/News-Sun On Monday, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed a motion with the N.M. Supreme Court asking recent ordinances passed in Southeast New Mexico be nullified by the court. The ordinances Torrez named in the Writ of Mandamus request, were passed by Hobbs, Clovis, Lea and Roosevelt Counties — and, though not named in the suit, on Monday …

Gabrielle Arsiaga/News-Sun Investigators with the Hobbs Fire Marshal office are still investigating two suspicious Hobbs residential structure fires that happened on Jan. 6 and Jan. 9. Hobbs Fire Department Chief Barry Young said both fires are being investigating “under a suspicious nature.”  Firefighters responded to the two vacant residences fully involved in flames — one around 10:52 a.m., Jan. 6 …