A Silver Alert was issued for Charles Yaws, 72, who was last seen in Hobbs, New Mexico. The Hobbs Police Department is now ...

HOBBS, N.M. — A Silver Alert has been sent out for 72-year-old Charles Yaws of Hobbs, New Mexico, according to a New Mexico ...

By these and some 80 other dread names, yaws is known the world over as a painful, crippling and highly contagious disease that covers the body with sores and eventually eats away the outer flesh.