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Eastern New Mexico University has fired its strength and conditioning coach and banned him from the campus, the coach told The News on Monday. Cory Bell was arrested following a Nov. 1 altercation in the ENMU football field house. Court records show Bell pushed a graduate assistant coach to the ground, causing him to strike his head against a wall. Bell was arrested the same day as the incident and charged with battery, a third-degree felony. Bell said he was notified of his dismissal from ENMU in a document delivered the...
“Stay with us,” came the morning TV tease, “and we’ll hear from a restaurant critic who’ll help us plan for a stress-free holiday. Coming up is his guide to the perfect Thanksgiving dinner.” Well, that put a bad taste in my mouth, and I tuned out before I heard what to stuff in my stuffing. Any recipe that claims to marry the flavors of “stress free” and “perfect” is 100% guaranteed to cook up gut-wrenching failure and frustration. On any holiday. On any day. In any life. I...
On this date … 1940: A man known “from the Pecos River to the Texas line as a character of the old days of the West,” died in a Clovis hospital at age 75. The Clovis News-Journal reported that Frank H. “Doctor” Childs died from injuries suffered when he was “slugged and robbed” in El Paso a few days earlier. Childs, who homesteaded near Melrose in 1908, was easily recognized throughout the region because he was always “well dressed ... with a cane slung over his arm,” CN-J reported. 1946: Movies playing in local theaters in...
Bison RV Center of Clovis has been named the Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce’s newest Retail Rockstar. A celebration will be held at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Bison’s location at 1200 E. 1st St. Bison was nominated for the award by the Chamber’s previous Retail Rockstar, Clovis Equipment & Supply Company....
Parkland Baptist Church Pastor Wayne Boydstun was surrounded by boxes Monday, preparing to pack for the church's annual Operation Christmas Child. Boydstun described Operation Christmas Child as "an international operation of Samaritan's Purse, an effort headed up by Franklin Graham." Graham is the son of the late Evangelist Billy Graham. "Samaritan's Purse has been doing operation Christmas Child for 30 years now. This is our 19th season at Parkland," Boydstun said. Boydstun...
Advance Auto Parts plans to close 727 stores across the country due to low demand for vehicle parts, according to an article from USA Today. But Clovis’ Advance Auto Parts Manager Zak Casarez said Monday his store is not slated for closure. The corporate announcement happened after the company's third-quarter report was released Thursday. Advance’s gross profit increased 11% in the third quarter this year compared to a nearly 37% increase in third quarter 2023, according to the USA Today article. Closures will take place by...
RIO RANCHO – Seeking a second consecutive Class 2A state volleyball championship, Texico had to get past a team it had already beaten in three sets the day before. After dropping a tight one in the first set, the Lady Wolverines found their stride and posted a 23-25, 25-14, 25-18, 25-10 victory over third-seeded Mesilla Valley at Rio Rancho Event Center, wrapping up the school's 18th state volleyball title all-time. Meantime, Melrose fell short in its bid for a repeat in C...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High’s girls finished second to host Albuquerque Academy in the Chargers’ Peter B. Barney Memorial Relays swimming meet on Saturday. In an event which featured more than the usual number of relays, the Lady Wildcats won six of seven, finishing second in the 200-yard medley relay, en route to 185 ½ points in the 12-team field. Academy tallies 241 ½, while Los Alamos was third with 154. “We just ran out of kids,” CHS coach Vincent de Maio said. Clovis came in fourth out of 13 teams on the boys side with 7...
A relative newcomer picked eight of 10 games correctly last weekend to win the 11th week of the Pigskin Pick ’Em contest. Two season-long leaders, Adam Branham and Ricky Fuentes, meanwhile head into the final round of the contest tied for first place. Zachary Mockchew began playing in Week 8 and has correctly picked at least seven games each of the last four weeks. He won the $50 gift card from Juanito’s Mexican Restaurant in Week 11. The season’s final player card will publish on Sunday, Dec. 15, and feature 20 games, inclu...
KINGSVILLE, Texas – Texas A&M-Kingsville dominated early and the Javelinas cruised to a 28-13 Lone Star Conference football victory over Eastern New Mexico University on Saturday night in the regular-season finale for both squads. Junior quarterback Jalen Brown ran for one touchdown and threw for two for Kingsville (7-4, 6-3 LSC), completing 15-of-22 passes for 189 yards. The Javelinas took advantage of short fields to open a 21-0 lead in the third quarter. Sophomore r...
It’s been two weeks since Election Day, and we’ve heard what pundits think cost Vice President Kamala Harris the election. Their hit list of topics included the uneven economy, high inflation, the Israeli-Hamas conflict, rising crime, extreme and excessive wokeness, and out-of-control borders. Yet, there is another reason that hasn’t been discussed nearly as much in most quarters – the intersection of race and gender. Harris would have been the first woman of any race and the...
When Amazon billionaire and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos decided not to allow his newspaper to endorse Kamala Harris for president, a quarter million readers canceled their subscriptions. Now this esteemed newspaper is suffering from a credibility crisis that may never recover under Bezos’ compromised ownership. Something similar happened to Fox News back in 2020, when the network essentially called the election for Joe Biden while their most loyal viewers were drinking in Donald Trump’s Kool-Aid and denying the rea...
I was listening to one of my mix tapes on my hi-fi stereo cassette player the other morning while I was piddling around in the kitchen when a Dale Watson song came up. Now I don’t know if you’ve ever heard any Dale Watson, but he’s what I call “real country,” which is probably why you may not have heard of him. He might be “too country” for modern country radio. My favorite song of his is “A Real Country Song,” with the opening line, “Mr. DJ, won’t you please play, a real country song…” Watson has another song I like, the...
Curry County commissioners Monday voted to table a resolution moving a portion of county employees to a four-day work week. If the measure had passed, the following is what would be enacted according to the commission agenda: "Effective Monday, December 2, 2024, all Curry County administrative departments with the exception of the Curry County Adult Detention Center and the Curry County Sheriff's office shall begin a four-day work week. The normal workday schedule thereafter...
Christine Gallegos will always remember Marcos Ramirez as a big jokester and a great guy. He was a role model, too, she said, the kind of man who stood up for those who didn’t have a voice. “He had a bit of a rough start,” said Gallegos, a family friend who knew Ramirez since he was in junior high. “His mom was a teen mom, so they kind of grew up together.” After high school, Ramirez joined the Army as a paratrooper and then returned to his hometown of Clovis to take care...
Four juvenile males – age 15 to 16 -- were charged Thursday morning with murder after a gun deal "went bad" in the Hilltop Shopping Center parking lot on West 21st Street in Clovis. Court records allege Marcos Ramirez, 26, met the boys with a gun he had for sale late Wednesday afternoon. One of the boys then shot Ramirez who died soon after at Plains Regional Medical Center, police allege. A man who was with the victim told police he saw one of the boys fire a gun into the bac...
Eastern New Mexico University rodeo coach Albert Flinn has been placed on administrative leave following criminal allegations of embezzlement and animal cruelty filed against him in Roosevelt County Magistrate Court. An affidavit for issuance of criminal summons was filed Nov. 4 in the court, charging Flinn, 83, with two counts of embezzlement (under $20,000) and one count of cruelty to animals. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Flinn had turned himself into the court. T...
Nuclear energy appears poised for a remarkable comeback. Interest in restarting mothballed nuclear reactors and building a new generation of small modular reactors has soared. And most promising of all, big words have been followed by big financial commitments from tech companies hungry for power for data centers, and the federal government focused on boosting reliable, emissions-free power. Yet, for all of the wind in the sails for commercial nuclear power, enormous hurdles remain. The logistics of restarting closed nuclear...
Now that the shock of the election results has subsided a bit, we can take a deep breath and rejoice that we’ve all returned to some semblance of normalcy. Said no one, ever. The past two weeks have been filled with anger, desperation, accusations, pretentious pronouncements of moral superiority, threats of vengeance, attempts to flee the country and seek asylum in places where the government subsidizes Aperol Spritzes, and other such nonsense. I have noticed on a l...
After the election results were in, did you start crying, shaking, and screaming? Did you start threatening those who didn’t support your preferred candidate? Did you announce to the world that you are leaving America to escape? Perhaps posting videos of your emotional crisis, whichever form it took, on TikTok? If you’re reading this, probably not. If you did, though, it’s a sign you take politics too seriously and may be allowing a handful of biased national media corpo...
New Mexico lawmakers Wednesday discussed the prospect of giving “police power” to the state Cannabis Control Division, which issues permits for the state-legal industry, to ramp up enforcement against the still-thriving illicit market. The proposal comes amid concern from many retailers and growers who have sounded the alarm about black market products and a high volume of state-licensed dispensaries. “It’s a big problem. The underground market is very prevalent in New Mexico,” said Sen. Moe Maestas, D-Albuquerque, during a...
Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday heard more details about a planned solar energy farm that would bring construction jobs and a revenue stream for a number of school districts from the project’s industrial revenue bonds. The facility is described as “a proposed solar photovoltaic electric generating and storage project located within Roosevelt County…” Roosevelt County Manager Annette Kirk said the 2,200-acre Blackwater Solar Center LLC project would be located on Roosevelt Road 3, not far from an Xcel Energy substat...
Authorities at Cannon Air Force Base hope to begin pumping and treating PFAS-contaminated water in the southeast corner of the base in March. The news came during a virtual Zoom meeting Tuesday. Air Force Civil Engineering spokesman Chris Gierke said efforts to begin the process earlier were thwarted by supply chain difficulty in obtaining needed parts for the processing machinery. The last of the parts are expected this coming January. The session began with Cannon Deputy Wing Commander Col. Jeff McMaster acknowledging the...
Eastern New Mexico University’s Board of Regents on Friday approved a list of Capital Outlay requests for the upcoming 2025 state legislative session. The list was presented to the regents by ENMU Vice president of Business Affairs and System Chief Financial Officer Tony Major. In his presentation letter, Major described the list as “prioritized by need and by the fit of such requests with legislative interests.” The listed requests are: • $408,000 for an Animal Education and Research Center. • $450,000 for Allied Health Ed...
A man was shot in the leg Friday in Clovis and police are investigating whether it was self-inflicted or an assault. According to a Clovis police news release: * Police were called to the 1000 block of West 10th Street about 2:30 p.m. Friday in reference to a gunshot victim. * Raynaldo Enriquez, 36, told police he was shot by an unknown assailant while walking down the street. Enriquez was transported to Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis before being transferred to a Texas hospital. * Detectives located the gun on...
