Lea County News

CBS 7 News Staff June 22, 2009 HOBBS - Police in Hobbs are searching for the suspects in an armed robbery.

HOBBS, N.M. Hobbs police are looking for two men who robbed a grocery store Sunday morning.

County personnel with degrees of all sorts still find the need to continue their education.

Three rural electric cooperatives that serve New Mexico communities will receive $90 million in federal loan guarantees to improve distribution systems and other infrastructure.

Two New Mexico electrical cooperatives have been approved for government loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program.

The company has bought the assets from Marathon Oil for $181.1 million. It purchased the fields in Lea County, New Mexico and three Texas counties, along with Marathona s interests in Pecos County, Texas.

A local dairyman has committed to submit a plan to reduce groundwater contamination at a Lea County dairy he owns, according to the New Mexico Environment Department.

GOP activist Bob Cornelius has formed an exploratory committee "with the intent to seek the Republican Party nomination for New Mexico's Commissioner of Public Lands," he announced Saturday in a news release.

KOCT TV Channel 6 in Artesia, New Mexico and licensed to KOAT TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico will be terminating its analog signal on June 12 and begin broadcasting on digital channel 19.

Unions representing Hobbs and Carlsbad police officers have sued District Attorney Janetta Hicks, asking a Carlsbad district judge to stop Hicks from requiring officers to prosecute misdemeanors.

Members of New Mexico law enforcement escorted local special Olympics athletes Wednesday as they carried the Flame of Hope along Route 66 through Tucumcari.

Jurors have convicted a woman of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a Lea County man a year ago.

Even if it had been night, the torch didna t need to be lit to show the way Tuesday for the 2009 Special Olympics torch run.

A Hobbs commissioner wants an economic development organization that receives nearly two-thirds of its budget from public funds to release a list of salaries for its employees.

A bat in the Las Cruces area has tested positive for rabies, New Mexico Department of Health officials said Wednesday.

Saturday, May 09, 2009 Rabid skunks, bats & foxes in NM Rabies is being reported in New Mexico with the confirmation that a skunk that bit a Tatum man was rabid, as was a bat found in the Las Cruces area.

The state Court of Appeals has ruled that New Mexico's ban on cockfighting is constitutional.

The state says a skunk that bit a Tatum man was rabid and that a rabid bat in the Las Cruces area led to two cats being euthanized after they came into contact with it.

SUN The Hobbs Hispano Chamber of Commerce recognized on Sunday two Hobbs Hispanics for their contributions to the community.

State police have arrested a 27-year-old Tatum man for the murder of another man on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico community.