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New Mexico prosecutors will file felony criminal charges against actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer of the low-budget western "Rust," following the fatal shooting of the film's cinematographer. The charges represent a dramatic culmination of more than a year of speculation over who, if anyone, would be held accountable for the tragic death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a rising star in the film industry. Hutchins was shot in the chest Oct. 21, 2021, as she rehearsed a...
BASKETBALL College standings LONE STAR CONFERENCE All Times MST Men West Division Conf. All W-L W-L Angelo State 9-1 13-3 West Texas A&M 9-1 11-5 Lubbock Christian 6-4 10-6 Eastern New Mexico 5-5 10-6 Midwestern State 5-6 8-9 Western New Mexico 4-6 10-6 Texas-Permian Basin 4-6 10-9 Cameron 0-11 2-15 Intradivisional records: ASU 5-1, WT 5-1, MSU 4-3, LCU 3-3, ENMU 3-3, WNMU 3-3, UTPB 2-4, CU 0-7. East Division Conf. All W-L W-L St. Edward’s 8-2 14-5 Texas A&M-Kingsville 7-3 13-5 Dallas Baptist 5-5 10-8 St. Mary’s 5-5 8-7 Texas...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Senior Tamia Smith set an Eastern New Mexico University women’s indoor record in shot put on Friday in Northern Arizona’s season-opening Kick Axe Open track meet. Smith posted a throw of 43 feet, 10 ¾ inches, good for third place behind Grand Canyon senior Samaria McDonald and Northern Arizona junior Alaina Diggs. The previous school record was 42-2 ¾ by Jenae Wolfram in 2015, and Smith now has four of the top six marks in ENMU history. “It’s exciting for us and for her to get the program record,” Gr...
A Republican who lost a race for a New Mexico State House seat last year has been arrested on charges of arranging multiple shootings at the homes of local Democrats, authorities said. Solomon Pena is linked to shootings at four homes between Dec. 4 and Jan. 3, according to the Albuquerque Police Department. Described by police as the “mastermind” behind the attacks, Pena is accused of paying men to conduct two of the shootings and allegedly “pulled the trigger” during one as well. “This type of radicalism is a threat to...
ALBUQUERQUE – Clovis High's swim teams got a look at some of the better competition in the state in Saturday's Albuquerque Academy Invitational, and in the end they did all right. Nobody was going to beat the host Chargers, but the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats gave it a relatively good go, both placing second. The boys had 572 points to 596 for Academy, while the girls tallied 585 to 693 ½ for the Chargers. "We stuck some kids in events where we wanted to get qual (...
Forty-seven years. That’s how long my wife and I have been married. It probably seems longer to her. I’m counting pretty heavily on the fact that breaking in a new husband would likely be for her, at this point, more trouble than it’s worth. These days, the statistics for folks who get married as young as we did are pretty grim. And I will admit, if one of my grandkids expressed a desire to get married at age 18, I’d likely need some sort of sedation. But for those who marry y...
RUIDOSO – Seven Clovis High wrestlers – four boys and three girls – placed in the top four on Saturday to lead CHS squads to sixth-place team finishes in Ruidoso’s Sierra Blanca Invite. The host Warriors took team honors among 15 boys squads with 163 points to 158 for Centennial, while the Wildcats came in with 78 ½ points. On the girls’ side, with 11 teams, Carlsbad finished first with 74 points to 51 for runnerup Moriarty, while the Lady Wildcats tallied 29. Sophomore Yocelyn Romero highlighted the event for Clovis, winning...
RESERVE – Melrose’s basketball teams breezed through Reserve’s Mountaineer Invitational virtually unchallenged, claiming championships on Saturday night against their District 6-1A rivals as the boys beat Logan 71-50 while the girls dominated their Lady Longhorns counterparts 67-28. The Buffaloes (12-3), ranked third in Class 1A by MaxPreps, put three players in double figures, led by junior Michael Cardonita with 19 points. Sophomore Cy Draper followed close behind with 18, while sophomore Josiah Roybal added 13. Melro...
CLEMSON, S.C. — Garrett Riley is officially the new offensive coordinator for the Clemson football program. The school’s board of trustees compensation committee approved Riley’s hire on Friday afternoon. Riley, a Muleshoe native, most recently held the same position at TCU and was named the Broyles Award winner as the nation’s top assistant coach. He replaces Brandon Streeter, who was fired Thursday after one season as coordinator. “Garrett has an incredible track record,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said in a statement....
CLOVIS – Coming off a major road win over Onate the night before in Las Cruces, Clovis High girls coach Jeff Reed wasn't quite sure what to expect less than 24 hours later against Lovington. As it turned out, the Lady Wildcats put any anxiety to rest fairly quickly in Saturday's matchup at Rock Staubus Gym, stretching their winning streak to 10 with a 53-36 victory. True, the Lady Wildcats (14-3) have a stronger, more experienced team than Lovington, but Reed was concerned a...
CLOVIS – Little things are still getting the best of the Clovis High boys basketball team. In Saturday’s game against Santa Fe High at Rock Staubus Gym, both teams made six 3-pointers and 12 free throws. It’s just that it took the Wildcats more shots to do it. Junior guard Lukas Turner scored 31 points and the Demons led almost all the way in subduing the Cats 62-56. A 7-0 start promptly put Clovis behind the 8-ball. A long 3-pointer by junior forward Champ Gooden pulled the Cats even 13-13 at the quarter, and they manag...
CANYON, Texas – In a high-scoring affair, West Texas A&M’s men pulled away late on Saturday to post a 108-97 Lone Star Conference victory over Eastern New Mexico University. Eleven players finished the game in double figures, including six for the Greyhounds. WT (11-5, 9-1 LSC), which shares the West Division lead with Angelo State, got 30 points and six assists from senior guard Julius Brown, while junior guards Larry Wise and Zach Toussaint added 22 and 16, respectively. Also in double digits for the Buffaloes were sen...
Sometimes, quite by accident, you stumble across a most extraordinary life story. That happened to me this week. The folks at Portales High School were looking to complete a list of former superintendents and were missing part of the name of one of the first people to hold down that job. They knew a “Mr. Skinner” had been the third superintendent of the school, occupying the post from 1904-1906. They had first names — or at least initials — for all of the others who held th...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Friday - Tuesday): Clovis • Robert Russell, 38, distribution of a controlled substance, bringing contraband into jail • Tanaysia Robynson, 30, battery • Cameron Dickerman, 18, failure to pay fines • Ashley Garcia, 33, battery against a household member, failure to pay fines • Delma Hernandez, 44, driving while license suspended or revoked, failure to register vehicle • Lance Waetermans, 46, aggravated driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, r...
Don’t worry, America. Big Media will never let Joe Biden get away with illegally taking classified documents from the White House in 2016 and stashing them at his office and in his garage next to his Corvette. The ace reporters at liberal places like the New York Times, CNN and NBC are already digging deep into the facts of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Soon the Big Media will be telling us exactly what classified documents Biden illegally took home, where he...
The drama surrounding Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid remains nothing short of surreal. It took 15 bids to secure the votes required to become speaker of the House. In his fatalistic desire to become speaker, McCarthy made numerous concessions to his opponents that have all but promised to nullify any real power or influence he will likely have. An interesting side story stemming from the drama was the effort by far-right House members to support Rep. Byron Donalds of Fl...
The constitutional amendment voters approved in 2020 changing the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission from five elected members to three appointed ones was aimed, in large part, at ensuring a more qualified board to handle technical and important issues. The belief also was that the commission would have more credibility than previous boards, which had their share of controversy — even scandal. So much for good intentions. It turns out the Republican grocery store owner from Clayton, appointed to the PRC last month by D...
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez joined a coalition of 22 other state attorneys general in support of the Biden administration’s targeted cancellationof the student loan debt program before the U.S. Supreme Court. In an amicus brief filed in the cases Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, the attorneys general argued that U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has the authority under the HEROES Act to provide limited debt cancellation to prevent student loan borrowers from experiencing grave finan...
On this date … 1906: A letter from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Chief Engineer W.B. Storey had reported the name of the railroad station located closest to Texico would be called “Clovis.” The letter, dated Jan. 17 and written to engineers at Texico, referenced Clovis as “an old French name.” 1930: George and Carl Bohannan were shot to death by auctioneer Vernon Tate, the deadliest day in a 12-year feud between neighboring farm families. The feud, believed to have started as a dispute between Ranchvale schoolboy...
A Texico water well that tested positive for PFAS contamination remains turned off while the city tests remaining wells for PFAS chemicals. The council decided in a special meeting to leave its Tower well, which has been shut off since October, while the city tested the city’s other water wells for PFAS, according to minutes of the meeting. The Tower well test showed PFAS chemicals at a level of 70 parts per billion, the minutes read. The Tower well tested positive for PFAS contaminants in two tests in February and in Decembe...
The Fort Sumner school board tabled a decision Jan. 9 over the contract of Superintendent Matt Moyer following a 40-minute executive session. Board Secretary Kerri Webb made the motion to table the contract, saying the Board needed “to work out small details that need to be added.” Moyer’s current contract runs through June 30 of 2024. He is paid $118,000 per year, receives 12 working days of annual leave and has full use of a school vehicle. He was evaluated by the board in closed session during the December meeting. Anoth...
Eastern New Mexico Rising is trying to bring anti-abortion ordinances passed in Clovis and Roosevelt County to a vote of the people. The group is circulating petitions in both communities calling for elections to decide the issue. If the voters say they want to make the decision on these ordinances instead of their elected officials, there would be a stay of the ordinances blocking them from taking effect until the vote is taken, said Laura Wight, co-founder of Eastern New Mexico Rising. Both ordinances are currently in...
Carol Nabours' favorite memories of her mom include the two of them baking together. "Cookies, cakes, chocolate was my favorite," Nabours said. "We'd listen to Shania Twain, The Backstreet Boys." Nabours said she and her mother would talk on the phone about every day. Carol Nabours lives and works in Plainview, Texas. Nabours' mother, Tia Nabours, 43, was one of the four people who died in a fire that engulfed a rental house in the back yard of 511 N. Wallace St. in Clovis...
Marches and services were held in Clovis and Portales Monday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. walk was held in Clovis with approximately 60 people in attendance. Participants walked from Potter Park on West Grand Avenue to the St. John the Baptist Church on Gila Street. A service was held at the church featuring singing and speaking. Emcee for the event was Curry County Democratic Chair Tony Mahan. Clovis Mayor Mike Morris and Curry...
