The Eunice football team won its first state championship since 2000 Saturday with a 34-13 victory over Capitan, giving the Cardinals revenge for last year’s loss in the same game. Here are photos from the game and postgame celebrations.

Murray Elementary fourth-grades race against one other to the finish line. The first six students to cross the line wins a pumpkin. Each grade level participated in the pumpkin races Friday at Murray Elementary.

College Lane Elementary students in Hobbs submitted over 150 Halloween decorated pumpkins for the schools annual Pumpkin Patch Contest.

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 …

During Tuesday’s Hobbs Municipal Schools board meeting, Paula Smith and Barry Young made a presentation on the benefits of starting a school-based health clinic for Hobbs schools. Smith and Young are part of a committee that did research on bringing a health clinic to Hobbs schools and developed the “RoadMap to Reduce Teen Pregnancy in Lea County.” The Hobbs Municipal …

Native American dancer Patrick Willie performs the Fancy War Dance Thursday at the Staked Plains Roundup at the Dan Berry Rodeo Arena on the New Mexico Junior College campus. Western Heritage Museum will present Staked Plains Roundup open to the public on Family Fun Day Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Festivities include a blacksmith, Billy the Kid expert, cowboy music …

Hobbs Schools celebrated homecoming events on Friday, including a parade on Broadway.

City of Hobbs officials and staff held a farewell reception for City Manager J.J. Murphy Monday at City Hall, 200 E. Broadway. Murphy’s last day as Hobbs’ city manager is Wednesday.