Hobbs Police officers identified a car burglar by a bicycle on Saturday. Dustin Harper, 35, of Hobbs, was arrested on Saturday after a car window was smashed in and the vehicle rummaged through at a business on the 2200 block North Turner. According to a Hobbs Police Department criminal complaint, officers found the car while patrolling the area and found …

Following a successful 2016 Paralympics in Rio, winning a regional ESPY, winning five world medals, a Pana America medal, American records, and becoming the first blind swimming coach in the NCAA at Catawba College; Hobbs’ own Tharon Drake decided to return home. Drake and his wife Paula left North Carolina and joined the CORE, where he is teaching the Tsunami …

Following a successful 2016 Paralympics in Rio, winning a regional ESPY, winning five world medals, a Pana America medal, American records, and becoming the first blind swimming coach in the NCAA at Catawba College; Hobbs’ own Tharon Drake decided to return home. Drake and his wife Paula left North Carolina and joined the CORE, where he is teaching the Tsunami …

Last fall Covenant Health announced plans to build a hospital in Hobbs. Covenant Health is proud to announce that we have signed an agreement to acquire the existing facilities at Lea Regional Medical Center and is pleased to extend a warm welcome to many of the caregivers who currently serve their patients and community. It is anticipated the acquisition will …

About 10 years ago, Cindy Kassis remembered thinking it would be nice to have a trampoline park for the kids to burn off youthful steam. Soon, Cindy and her husband, Nadeem, will see that dream coming true with “Space Jump” in the 3200 block of North Grimes, immediately north of ZK Express, an automotive service company also owned by the …

University of the Southwest students eligible for assistance under the terms of the CARES Act began to receive checks from the university last week. “Checks being sent out (from the university) will put a minimum of $575 into each eligible undergraduate student’s hands to provide emergency funding to help defray the costs of the impact of the pandemic on their …

It is now with virtual certainty that a special legislative session will be called to order sometime next month. This session is necessary because of the dramatic reduction in State revenues as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the dramatic decline in prices and activity in the oil and gas industry. Estimates range from a shortfall of some …

The News-Sun put out a survey on social media asking for your responses to 10 questions. As of 12:30 p.m. on Friday, the News-Sun received 569 responses, an interesting snapshot of how Lea County has responded to the pandemic. Results of the 10 questions can be found below. The following are the responses to the 10 questions: Everything from “open …

SANTA FE – New Mexico state health officials on Saturday announced two new cases for Lea County. Both of those cases were identified through one of Nor-Lea’s testing locations. One of those cases is linked to a male in his 30’s residing in Hobbs. The other case is linked to a child (0-10) also residing in Hobbs. NMDOH has started their …

Two men were purposely crashing their cars into one another — with one of those vehicles having a child in the back seat. James Robert Dowell, 19, of Hobbs, was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts of aggravated battery, both third-degree felonies; and abuse of a child, a fourth-degree felony. Javier Rolando Bosquez Jr., 25, of Hobbs, was …