The Lea County Fair & Rodeo Parade was held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Lovington.

New Mexico State Senator Billy Jess McKibben died Friday due to natural causes in Big Spring. McKibben was born June 2, 1936 in Eunice. He was a graduate of Lovington High School, NMMI Junior College in Roswell and New Mexico State University. McKibben served in the U.S. Air Force during Vietnam. McKibben served as a New Mexico State Senator from …

The Josh Abbott Band performed Tuesday night, Aug. 8 at the 82nd Annual Lea County Fair & Rodeo at the Lea County Fairgrounds in Lovington.

Lea County Special Rodeo celebrates 30 years of involving special needs children in the fair and rodeo fun. In addition to a booth in the Zia Building at the Lea County Fairgrounds, the organization scheduled three fair and rodeo events for the kids, according to Shawnna Richards, president of the organization. Wright’s Amusements will open the carnival Saturday from 10 …

Seven Lea County residents are behind bars on federal narcotics trafficking and money laundering charges as part of a multi-agency investigation led by the DEA into a drug trafficking organization based in Hobbs. The seven residents, four of them Mexican nationals, and a resident of Yuma, Ariz., allegedly imported methamphetamine and cocaine into Lea County from Mexico through Arizona. Those arrested Wednesday include Jose Raul Mendivil-Berrelleza, …

George Miller, Eunice resident, kayaks down a flooded Avenue Q in Eunice Tuesday after a rain storm. For more on this story read Thursday’s Hobbs News-Sun.

Lea County lost a “gentle giant” Monday night with the passing of Zeak Lovell Williams Jr. Williams died in his Hobbs home suddenly of a heart attack according to his son, Shawn. He was 73 years old. The praise was for the man who was Hobbs’ first black city commissioner and first black mayor and a man once known as …

The Lea County Team Roping Championship was held Sunday, July 30 at Jake McClure Arena at the Lea County Fairgrounds in Lovington, N.M. The team of Rene Cervantes and Jonathan Alvarado are the first-place average winners. The top 12 teams out of 176 entered will have a chance to win $2,000 during the Shoot-Out Round on Aug. 10.

A Hobbs News-Sun reporter took a helicopter ride over Hobbs Friday with the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.

A New Mexico man is behind bars after he opened fire on a Chaves County deputy at a rest stop west of Tatum Wednesday. The Lea County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the capture of the man. No one was injured in the incident. The shootout took place near the Waldrop Rest Area on U.S. Hwy. 380, about 30 miles west …