A Romanian husband and wife who allegedly begged for cash while using dirty, shoeless children as sympathy props have been charged with multiple felonies and has at least temporarily lost custody of their four children. Cristian Andrei Ducila, 24, and Luiza Badea, 21, most recently of Lovington, were each charged with four third-degree felony counts of abandonment or abuse of …

A Hobbs man was arrested on multiple charges, including child abuse, Thursday after he allegedly got into a physical altercation with a woman and tried to injure a baby. Nathaniel Massengill, 19, was charged with abandonment or abuse of a child, false imprisonment, battery against a household member, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer and a probation violation. Around 9:30 …