Hobbs Woman sets fires Virginia Cunningham/News-Sun Nicolette Dobbins allegedly set fire to her trailer house and then went to her mother’s apartment and set another fire inside the kitchen while her son was in the apartment. Dobbins was arrested July 13 and charged with abuse of a child, a third-degree felony, and arson, a fourth-degree felony. At around 3:48 a.m., …

Gabrielle Arsiaga/News-Sun Investigators with the Hobbs Fire Marshal office are still investigating two suspicious Hobbs residential structure fires that happened on Jan. 6 and Jan. 9. Hobbs Fire Department Chief Barry Young said both fires are being investigating “under a suspicious nature.”  Firefighters responded to the two vacant residences fully involved in flames — one around 10:52 a.m., Jan. 6 …