SWAT operation misses wanted man for second time Kelly Farrell News-Sun Hobbs resident Anthony Quiroz eluded law enforcement again Monday as Hobbs police made one arrest in an hours-long SWAT operation on East White Street. It is the second time in less than a week SWAT teams have surrounded a home in Lea County looking for Quiroz. Hobbs police and …

Game’s popularity causing some problems in Hobbs Kelly Farrell News-Sun Like many things, the rampant popularity of “Pokemon Go” has its positives and its negatives and in this case the negatives are damage to public property and traffic violations. The various PokeStops and training gyms around the community have led to a significant number of people to flood public places …

Buck Vandermeer NEWS-SUN According to the laws of physics, “a body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rest tends to stay at rest.” I have learned a great deal about bodies in motion following the careers of Hobbs brother and sister professional basketball players Adrianne and Ronald Ross. The world travelers are constantly on the …

1,259 acres burned over weekend Kelly Farrell NEWS-SUN With 100-degree temperatures and the occasional thunder, grass fires have scorched more than 1,200 acres in Lea County within the last week pushing 2016’s total closer to 10,000 acres lost. Lightning strikes were blamed twice for causing two significant grass fires within a 48-hour period that torched an estimated 1,259 acres with …

Kelly Farrell News-Sun A Hobbs man with ties to Cibola County was arrested on a warrant Sunday for multiple charges after the Lea County Drug Task Force seized more than $27,000 worth of methamphetamine from his RV in February.

Exhibit chance of a lifetime Dorothy N. Fowler News-Sun Next week, a crew from Atlanta will arrive in Hobbs to set up an exhibit of artifacts from the Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912 and lay undisturbed more than three miles below the water until her remains were discovered in 1985. Since then, thousands of artifacts have been recovered …

Hobbsans attend vigil outside HPD in support of Dallas police Kelly Farrell News-Sun Five law enforcement officers were slain in Dallas Thursday night and communities across the nation began an outpouring of support, grief and love. The City of Hobbs gathered Friday morning for its part. Hobbs police officers, fire personnel, City of Hobbs employees, numerous residents and community leaders …

County has lost 8,333 acres to wildfires this year Curtis C. Wynne News-Sun The weather is not only hot, it’s fiery hot. The National Weather Service in Midland issued a heat advisory for southeastern New Mexico and much of West Texas, and the Lea County Deputy Fire Marshal Jeff Broom warned of a fire weather situation. Broom said the number …

Traffic citations growing by 4,500 a year Charlie Benton News-Sun Hobbs Assistant City Attorney Efren Cortez knew that higher traffic fines were needed after a speeder laughed in Cortez’s face in municipal court, saying he’d rather pay his traffic fine than go through a defensive driving course at New Mexico Junior College to have the ticket expunged. The effects of …

Traffic citations growing by 4,500 a year Charlie Benton News-Sun Hobbs Assistant City Attorney Efren Cortez knew that higher traffic fines were needed after a speeder laughed in Cortez’s face in municipal court, saying he’d rather pay his traffic fine than go through a defensive driving course at New Mexico Junior College to have the ticket expunged. The effects of …