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James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader in the “Star Wars” franchise, died Monday. He was 93. Jones’ reps confirmed the news to Deadline and to Variety. He died at his home in Dutchess County, NY. Widely regarded as one of the greatest voices in all of entertainment, Jones - he voiced Mufasa both in “The Lion King” animated pic (1994) and live-action film (2019) - is one of the few to win the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). Jones took home two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award and three Tony Awards and was presented...
When senior forward Nick Huenig found the back of the net less than two minutes in, it looked like the rout might by on for Eastern New Mexico University's men on Thursday night. Instead, Adams State put up quite a fight and it took a goal by sophomore forward Robin Vandewalle in the closing minutes to secure a 2-0 win in the soccer opener for both teams at newly-named Steve Loy Family Foundation Stadium, formerly Greyhound Stadium. The Grizzlies entered the contest with a...
A Texas university is launching a new degree dedicated to the art and business of influencing. Beginning this fall, the University of Texas at San Antonio is offering a bachelor's in digital media influencing for aspiring content creators. The program, which is available online and in-person, will cover technical aspects like photo editing and website development, but also audience psychology and data analytics. "We want to take the idea media influencing and bring it into...
On this date ... 1923: Jerry “Bruiser” Nuzum was born in Clovis. The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Nuzum became the first Clovis High School graduate to play in the National Football League. The halfback spent four seasons — 1948-1951 – with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He died in 1997, at age 73. 1952: The Clovis Mattress company was featured in the business review section of the Clovis News-Journal, and noted for having the only felting machine in the city. "The felting machine felts cotton giving you a mattress free from lumps a...
If anybody needs an excuse to stay up late to watch college football, Muleshoe's Lincoln Riley gives us one. The University of Southern California's third-year coach has been under fire since last year's 8-5 season that was even more disappointing in the Pac 12 (5-4). But all is forgiven for now after Riley's Trojans beat 13th-ranked LSU, 27-20, on Sunday. Sports writer Luca Evans of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune called it Riley's first "signature win" at the West Coast...
The Agricultural Science Centers at Clovis and Tucumcari have released their weather statistics for August. The numbers show it was hot, hot, hot. In Clovis, the average high was 95 degrees with four days topping out at 100 or more. The hottest day was 103 on Aug. 23. Twenty days in August hit 95 or more. Think that's warm? Tucumcari says, "Hold my iced lemonade." The ag center in Tucumcari reported an average high of 100 degrees for August. It recorded 16 days of temperatures hitting 100 degrees or more. The high for the...
On this date ... 1914: The Barbara Worth Hotel in San Diego advertised “A room with a bath for a dollar” in The Clovis Journal. 1941: Portales city officials were making plans for a Sept. 12 statewide blackout. About 80 “special police” were appointed to help organize the civilian defense drill in which all lights were to be shut off and windows covered. The drill was mandatory across New Mexico because military leaders considered border states “of strategic importance from the standpoint of an invasion possibili...
It certainly looked like Clovis High's volleyball team was about to pull even with Santa Fe High on Saturday at Rock Staubus Gymnasium, but the Lady Wildcats couldn't pull it off. Trailing 20-15 in Game 2, the Lady Demons rallied with a strong finish to open a two-set lead en route to a 25-17, 25-22, 25-20 win in Clovis' season opener. Junior Ava Evans' kill staked the Lady Cats to their five-point cushion, but just as quickly the Lady Demons (2-0) took it away with a...
Alamogordo girls soccer coach Lee Wilder was happy to get out of town with a victory. His Clovis High counterpart, Ray Rodriguez, thought his squad should have played better. Down a goal at the half, the Lady Tigers (4-1) found the back of the net three times in the second stanza and held on for a 3-2 victory on Saturday at Leon Williams Stadium. Senior defender Toni Wilder, daughter of the coach, provided the deciding goal on a penalty kick in the 68th minute of the match...
When he became Clovis High’s football coach over the summer, Stan Hodges knew he was walking into a challenging situation. The Wildcats’ early schedule hasn’t done him any favors, either. Clovis faces its third consecutive Class 6A power to open the season on Friday night when it hosts Rio Rancho Cleveland in a 7 p.m. kickoff at Leon Williams Stadium. Since taking an 8-0 lead on their first possession of the season in the August 23 opener at Farmington, the Cats have been outscored 97-0 by the Scorpions and Rio Rancho. It do...
Following one of the hottest months on record throughout New Mexico, the first week of September is expected to see high temperatures more like fall in the Clovis-Portales area, with a chance for rain most days. The National Weather Service predicts highs in the mid-80s all week with lows in the mid-50s. Thursday night offers a 20% chance of rain, forecasters say. “We have a backdoor front coming through Wednesday night. It’s going to give us enough moisture for isolated storms late [in the] week into the weekend,” said Matt...
Complying with a ruling from Third Judicial District Court Judge James T. Martin, the city of Las Cruces has released unlawfully withheld public records and provided a written description of other withheld records and passages redacted. The case was brought by attorney Peter Goodman on behalf of Michael L. Hays when the city of Las Cruces failed to comply with a request from Hays to inspect records under the Inspection of Public Records Act, according to a news release from the New Mexico Foundation of Open Government. The la...
For all the success Portales High football has enjoyed in recent years, Lovington has done plenty to make the Rams’ lives miserable. It looked like that trend might come to an end early in Friday’s matchup at Steve Loy Stadium. Then the Wildcats put together a 99-yard scoring drive and took off from there, handing PHS a 30-7 setback behind a stout defense and senior running back Ondalis Cardenas’ 110 rushing yards and two touchdowns. “That’s what got us going,” Wildcats co...
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a lot of federal money coming into New Mexico these days, thanks in large part to the infrastructure bill passed in President Biden’s first year in office. According to the White House, about $5.2 billion has been allocated for around 500 infrastructure projects around the state, including transportation, water and broadband infrastructure. Mostly the funds will be administered through the state, which is still flush with oil-and-gas revenues (although indicators point to a slowdown in the...
Labor Day has generally been considered opening day for presidential campaigns. That’s the day politicos of all persuasions begin to take a look at and pay attention to polling data. This year, prior to opening day, three events occurred that could have far-reaching results. These were the Trump assassination attempt, the coronation of Kamala Harris as Democrat presidential candidate and the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsement of Donald J. Trump for president. Both the F...
Government officials are supposed to work for us. It’s frustrating when they put effort into keeping us out of their meetings. Consider recent action taken by Clovis Municipal Schools and the Portales City Council. Clovis’ school board has decided to fight back against a new state law requiring video webcasting of its public meetings. Oh, you can watch on your home computer as the law requires, but CMS has decided it needs to see you, too. Turn your camera off or step away from view and school officials will boot you out of t...
On this date ... 1918: Workers were just about finished paving the north end of Clovis’ Main Street, between Fourth and Eighth streets, with bricks that remain today. A Plainview company did the work after a winning bid of $32,846.20, the Clovis News-Journal reported. 1936: A convicted Clovis rapist’s home was destroyed in a fire while he awaited transport to the state penitentiary. Curly Reynolds had lived at 204 Edwards St. in a small adobe house. Neighbors alerted firefighters to the blaze. Reynolds had pleaded guilty to s...
Clovis High's boys resorted to their new-old formula Saturday – two goals from senior forward Ihab Mesbah plus a stingy defense. That resulted in a 2-0 victory for the Wildcats at Leon Williams Stadium. Mesbah scored early in the first half off an assist from freshman midfielder/defender Ryan Worley, then all but iced it away after he took a long pass ahead from senior goalkeeper Angel Avila, fought off a Lovington defender on the left side and fired one into the right c...
Sammy Fuentes won, but to him it sure didn't feel like it. The Clovis High senior was awarded first place in Saturday's season-opening Clovis Invitational cross country meet at Ned Houk Park after Lovington junior Ethan Castellanos, who had a healthy lead at the time, was disqualified for cutting the course. "I feel like it didn't go good at all," said Fuentes, who was clocked in a time of 17 minutes, 31.11 seconds over the five-kilometer course. "The other guy (Castellanos)...
Donald Trump’s campaign is in a fierce tailspin as his failed attacks on Kamala Harris haven’t been able to slow down her growing popularity. “It’s very clear the former president is unraveling. He’s having a complete meltdown,” Ashley Etienne, a former Joe Biden staffer and political advisor, said during a recent segment on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show. “Kamala Harris has got him a chokehold that is really driving him to the point of insanity, and really driving his cam...
On this date ... 1910: The Roosevelt County Herald readers learned 2,000 “of those special lemonades” had been created in a week at the Dobbs Confectionery — a record. “Better get in for one or more early in the week in order to avoid the rush,” the newspaper ad claimed. 1941: The Clovis News-Journal asked area judges about the strangest wedding ceremonies they had performed. Justice of the Peace W. E. McConnell said he married a couple on horseback at a riding academy and married a couple at the county jail just before th...
Eastern European native Stefaniya Yanez is a "huge Swiftie" loving life in her adopted country. The Eastern New Mexico News associate shared thoughts about war in her homeland, smiling strangers and other things she cares about. Q: So you were born in Russia and later lived in Ukraine, right? What do you remember about those days and how old were you when you left for the U.S.? A: The opposite actually. I was born in Ukraine, (Yalta, Crimea to be more specific) and then that a...
U.S. Rep. James Clyburn recently told CNN that Joe Biden had a record, “that no president of the United States could ever match.” Not to be outdone by anyone when it comes to political bloviating, Nancy Pelosi told CBS that Biden should be added to Mount Rushmore. Delegates to the Democrat convention in Chicago chanted, “We love you Joe” while waving We Heart Joe professionally made signs that ruined the spontaneity of the moment. All of this heart-felt adoration was lavishe...
Fear and hope, the stuff campaigns are made of. As unique as this year’s presidential campaign is, there’s nothing new about the candidates’ efforts to tap into these two visceral emotions. Each side is trying to scare the hell out of voters by demonizing their opponent and promising to lead us into a better future. And like all other campaigns before this one, the hyperbole runs thick, but I don’t want to create a false equivalency here. Donald Trump is the fearmonger in this race, while Kamala Harris is bringing hope ba...
A Clovis man previously convicted of harassing public officials was charged Monday with 10 counts of extortion and 21 counts of stalking some of those same officials. Michael McKinney, 47, also was indicted Friday by a Clovis grand jury on charges he tried to terrify, intimidate or harass state Rep. Andrea Reeb and others. District Attorney Quentin Ray said McKinney was arrested in Thurston County, Wash., where he is being held by authorities until he can be extradited to...
