The City of Hobbs will shut off water from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. today to replace two valves in the city’s water system. The work will take place on Main and Jefferson. The properties highlighted in blue in the map below may be without water during the replacement of the two valves. For more information call the City of Hobbs Utilities …

Coming soon to Hobbs, Anytime Fitness is under construction at 3901 N. Grimes, just north of Home Depot. Martin Lebrun, managing director for Anytime Fitness in Carlsbad and Hobbs, said the franchise is scheduled to open a 7,000-square-foot facility at that location in the first quarter of 2018. “We opened our first location in Carlsbad last September and it’s been …

Coming soon to Hobbs, Anytime Fitness is under construction at 3901 N. Grimes, just north of Home Depot. Martin Lebrun, managing director for Anytime Fitness in Carlsbad and Hobbs, said the franchise is scheduled to open a 7,000-square-foot facility at that location in the first quarter of 2018. “We opened our first location in Carlsbad last September and it’s been …

In spite of a “tragic” shooting at Texas Tech University Monday, Lea County residents insist the school is as safe as any other. A 19-year-old freshman identified as Hollis Daniels III was in police custody Tuesday after allegedly confessing to fatally shooting a campus police officer. According to an affidavit filed by Lubbock police, Daniels said he was “the one …

In spite of a “tragic” shooting at Texas Tech University Monday, Lea County residents insist the school is as safe as any other. A 19-year-old freshman identified as Hollis Daniels III was in police custody Tuesday after allegedly confessing to fatally shooting a campus police officer. According to an affidavit filed by Lubbock police, Daniels said he was “the one …

When bullets pinged on metal seats overhead, Hobbs Police Chief Chris McCall decided the platform under which he and his wife Kelli had belly-crawled may not be safe enough. The McCalls were in a crowd of about 22,000 concert-goers in Las Vegas, Nev., around 10 p.m. Sunday when a gunman, later identified as 64-year-old retired accountant Stephen Craig Paddock of …

Mayra Garcia, 20 of Lovington, has been stuck in Caguas, Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria hit the U.S. territory on Sept. 20. Mayra moved to Puerto Rico to play in a professional volleyball league. Her flight back home has been cancelled four times, and she plans to try to catch a plane out of Puerto Rico to Dallas Thursday. Mayra …

Fifth Judicial District Judge William Shoobridge heard gunshots Sunday night as he and his wife Cindy, local real estate broker, were climbing into their bed in Las Vegas. They didn’t know until Monday morning, the judge’s birthday, that 59 people had died and more than 500 more were injured in the nation’s worst mass shooting in recent history. “We were …

Hobbs first responders worked the scene of  a two vehicle accident between a Sedan and a Denali on Grimes Streets, in front of Albertsons, Monday. The Sedan rolled over after it was allegedly clipped by the Denali that was turning onto Grimes from the Albertsons’ parking lot. A woman and a four year-old girl were in the rolled over Sudan. …

A canvass of brick and mortar about 30 feet high and 130 feet wide in downtown Hobbs invites grade school children to a painting party this week and next. Contracted by the Lea County Center for the Arts, Oklahoma-based artist Bob Palmer, Ph.D., said he enjoys working with the kids to paint murals. “Not only do I feel like I’m …