Five Hobbs Police Department officers who ran toward gunfire, rendered life-saving emergency first aid to victims and nabbed a shooting suspect during at active-shooter scene were presented Police Meritorious Awards at Monday’s City Commission meeting. One of the officers, Nicholas Pereyra, who applied a seal to a 39-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, was also awarded …

Hobbs has 3rd shooting this week A man and a 13-year-old were shot in a Hobbs neighborhood around 11:30 p.m. Halloween night, in the third shooting in the city this week. The 20-year-old man and the boy, both of Hobbs, sustained gunshot wounds in the 300 block of East Albertson Drive. Hobbs Police Chief Chris McCall said neither victim sustained …

Man pleads no contest in shooting LOVINGTON — Hobbsan Jamar Evans pleaded no contest at the Lea County Courthouse on Monday morning to attempted murder in the 2016 shooting of Tywon Basquez and was sentenced to serve five years of a 14-year sentence. Evans, 35, appeared in District Judge William Shoobridge’s courtroom for a change of plea hearing Monday after …