The following are the Top Ten local news stories for 2022 selected by the News-Sun staff: 1) Baby  in dumpster Around 2 p.m. on Jan. 7 a woman pulled up to a dumpster behind a Hobbs retail store and threw her unwanted newborn in a dumpster. According to Hobbs Police Chief August Fons, the newborn was found by three “dumpster …

Gabrielle Arsiaga News-Sun A Hobbs man will serve probation for stealing from two local businesses.  Keith Wayne Sanders, 27, of Hobbs pleaded guilty to fraud, a fourth-degree felony, on Dec. 8, for taking $3,600 from local businesses Lobo Nut and Bolt and Cavitt Land and Cattle, belonging to Wade Cavitt. He was sentenced to 18 months supervised probation and ordered …