Lovington News

Holly Corp. plans a $40 million, 70-mile pipeline connecting Navajo Refinery between Lovington and Hobbs to new crude oil markets.

Holly Energy Partners LP has acquired a new 16-inch pipeline from Holly Corp. that will connect Holly's refining facilities in Lovington, N.M., to similar facilities in Artesia, N.M. Holly Energy Partners paid $34.2 million in an all-cash transaction for the pipeline after finacing the acquisition through a revolving credit facility.

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.

For those lucky few that were at the preliminary meeting of the Design and Planning Assistance Center, held in February, the chance to see the final results of their downtown revitalization plan is coming.

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Ruidoso edged out the Portales girls, and Lovington blew out the boys field in the District 4-3A track championships held Friday at Portales High.

It will be costly and take some time to implement the state's new euthanasia law for animals in Tucumcari and Quay County, according to the city's police chief.

A looming June deadline has Clovis working to switch from the gas chamber to lethal injection as a mechanism for killing unwanted animals.

Hobbs High School junior Kanesha Sanders waited anxiously for school nurse Stephanie Shoults to open the door to the auditorium dressing room so she could browse for a dress she might wear to the big school dance.

The magistrate court in Tatum is slated to close July 1 under a measure approved by the 2009 Legislature.

Cody Small only felt slow Friday night. After he failed to close the gap in the 110-meter hurdles, however, the Portales senior discovered he had never been faster.

The Otis Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association Board has rescheduled its monthly board meeting for 6:30 p.m. today at 2501 Bannister Road.

Loving Municipal Schools Board of Education will hold a special board meeting at 5 p.m. today in the board meeting room at the high school to discuss the 2009-10 budget.

Two southern New Mexico towns that have euthanized animals in gas chambers say they need training and more personnel to put the animals down by lethal injection as required by a new state law.

Although Carlsbad's animal shelter stopped using gas chambers to euthanize animals almost three years ago, a statewide ban on this type of euthanasia will go into effect in June calling for a more "humane" alternative.

New Mexico is becoming the 18th state in the nation to prohibit the euthanizing of animals in gas chambers.

A new state law will prohibit euthanizing animals in gas chambers. Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation into law on Monday that prohibits the use of carbon monoxide gas chambers to kill dogs and cats at animal shelters.

The Hobson Road Fire southeast of Roswell in Chaves County burned more than 100 acres over the weekend, but was in mop-up mode Monday, while a 9,000-acre fire in Lea County, The 238 Fire was deemed 95 percent contained.

As New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest observe Wildfire Awareness Week, state officials are urging residents to be prepared for wildfires and to do their part to prevent fires.

A grass fire, estimated to be 5,000 acres in size, is currently burning towards Monument, N.M. The blaze sparked near Buckeye, N.M. off of State Highway 238 at 11:20 a.m. on Monday.