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Hobbs High School cheerleaders perform during half-time Monday at the Hobbs 51st annual Holiday Tournament at Tasker Arena.

Hobbs housing market stays steady

Hobbs’ home market may actually be benefiting from the national recession.
Area Realtors say the recession is having a stabilizing effect on the area housing market, dropping prices, shifting the paradigm from a seller’s to a buyer’s market and increasing the number of homes for sale. … Read more.

NMJC working T-Bird courtyard

A repetitive beep echoed throughout the student housing complex’s courtyard as a front end loader removed the top layer of soil and laid it in piles in preparation for a layer of concrete.
An area outside the Carroll Leavell and John Watson student apartments on the New Mexico Junior College campus will be a gathering area from the apartments’ sidewalks to the 40,000-square-foot turf courtyard. … Read more.

Mesquite spraying bringing back county’s grass land

Across southern Lea County, patches of dead and dying mesquite stand in sharp contrast to almost impenetrable groves of the overgrown desert bush. The dying areas look bad now, but it is all part of a plan.
It is a plan that will return the range to the historic grassland once roamed by buffalo and antelope through the use of herbicides to thin the overpopulation of mesquite and creosote brush, said Ray Keller, Bureau of Land Management range conservationist. … Read more.

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Flooded Intersection

A man with the help of Hobbs Police pushes his car out of flood waters and into the parking lot of a local church on August 24, 2007

Man gets stranded

Video of a man whose car stalls in the flood near the intersection of Joe Harvey and Grimes in Hobbs on Aug. 24, 2007

Thriftway Fire

A fire in Hobbs, N.M. destroys the Thriftway supermarket. Firefighters attacked the blaze in the early hours of Saturday, April 21, 2007, but by morning it was clear the structure was beyond repair.

AP Top News at 6:00 a.m. EST

Israel to halt ops for 3 hours for food aid
GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) - Israel was set to pause its Gaza offensive for three hours Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and the country's leaders debated whether to accept an international cease-fire plan or to expand the assault against Hamas. With criticism rising of the operation's spiraling civilian death toll and Gazans increasingly suffering the effects of nonstop airstrikes and shelling, Israel's military said it would open "humanitarian corridors" to allow aid supplies to reach Palestinians.

Stimulus aside, Obama vows future budget restraint
WASHINGTON (AP) - To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline. Budget-conscious lawmakers are pressing Obama to embrace deficit-reduction goals even as he promotes a spending and tax-cutting plan - expected to cost about $775 billion - to jolt the economy out of its downward spiral.

Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer. While Burris' paperwork was rejected at the opening of the 111th Congress, he was scheduled to meet Wednesday with the Senate's top two Democrats - Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and assistant leader Dick Durbin of Illinois.

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