Six students and one coach from the University of the Southwest died in a bus accident also involving a pickup truck near Andrews, Texas, on Tuesday evening. Texas Department of Public Safety reports the driver of the pickup truck and a passenger were also killed. Two additional passengers in the USW van were taken by helicopter to a Lubbock hospital …

Andy Brosig/News-Sun Preliminary spring enrollment numbers are in at Lea County’s two colleges and the news is pretty good. New Mexico Junior College, which resumed classes for the semester on Monday, reported 1,538 full-time students enrolled for spring, said Cathy Mitchell, vice president of student services. University of the Southwest Provost Ryan Tipton reported, with more than a week of …