More senior housing could be coming to Hobbs after a vote by the Hobbs Planning Board in its Tuesday morning meeting Charlie Benton News-Sun The board unanimously recommended a sketch plan for a gated community to be located in the Zia Crossing development northwest of Zia Park Casino, Hotel and Racetrack. The proposed development will be open to those aged …

They were all on display Saturday along with the Lea Regional Airport itself Dorothy N. Fowler News-Sun At 8:15 a.m. a steady stream of cars, pickups and a vendor trailer or two traveled the Carlsbad Highway out of Hobbs, headed in the direction of the Lea County Regional Airport. If the drivers of the cars expected to see planes fly …

Bunny, an American bulldog with five puppies, was scheduled for certain death at a pound in West Texas … until the Dog is My Copilot program came to the rescue Dorothy N. Fowler NEWS-SUN At 7:15 a.m. tears were flowing freely down the faces of Gina Beard and Shelly Chesser as Philip Rork’s plane, with its Dog is My Copilot …

Dorothy Fowler News-Sun My father died on the monkey board of a drilling rig in Dawson County, near Lamesa, Texas, almost 50 years ago. He was the victim of an accident that happened when some wire rope got loose on the floor of the rig and hit him across his upper thighs, leaving him with huge bruises. He refused to …