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CLOVIS — The three airmen arrested this weekend on rape charges will be tried in Curry County, but Cannon Air Force Base's Office of Special Investigations is assisting with ongoing cooperative investigation, officials say. Senior Airman Thomas Newton, 24, Airman First Class (A1C) Isaiah Edley, 19, and A1C Rahman Buchanan, 18, remained held without bond Wednesday in the Curry County Adult Detention Center pending court appearances next week. All three were charged last w...
PORTALES — The Greyhound baseball team made history in 2017, pulling off the second greatest single-season turnaround in NCAA Division II play since 1998. After winning just 10 games in 2016, Eastern New Mexico responded last season with a 32-18 record — tied for the second most wins in school history. Along the way, ENMU had the best start in program history (14-1) and produced a pair of All-Americans in Alex DeLaCruz and Endy Villalona, both of whom happened to transfer tog...
RICHARDSON, Texas — To little surprise, last year's Lone Star Conference softball champion and the current No. 2 team in Division II is expected to be this year's LSC champion. Angelo State is favored to repeat as LSC champs with 29 of the 33 first-place votes cast by LSC coaches, sports information directors and various media representatives. The Rambelles finished with 359 points in the poll. The Rambelles concluded the 2017 season at 60-7 overall, which is the most wins i...
From long before I was born, Sunday was a day to gather the relatives together for a big meal around my grandparents’ table. Our best old family photos show my aunts, uncles, and cousins, seated around a long, rectangular table piled high with platters of fried quail, deep bowls of mashed potatoes, vats of gravy, shimmering jello salads, goblets of iced tea. When my parents got married in 1957, they built an end onto the home my grandparents had built decades earlier. They h...
Today’s schools across America are incorporating more STEM into the classroom curriculum and are even adding an additional category, STEAM. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. STEAM represents the same with the addition of Art/Design into the mix. This movement provides support for efforts to prepare our students for jobs that may not even yet exist. The emphasis in no way excludes language arts, math, and social studies; these are folded in. In Joy M...
High school students: Are you ready for college? If two New Mexico state legislators have their way, students would have to provide a definite answer. A bill, sponsored by Rep. Nate Gentry, R-Albuquerque, and Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto, D-Albuquerque, would require high school juniors to apply to at least one college or prove they have other concrete post-high school plans, according to an article by U.S. News and World report. Exceptions to the college rule include commitment to military service, a vocational program or work...
On this date ... 1978: In Bill Southard’s “Memo from the Editor,” which appeared each day in the Clovis News-Journal, he offered congratulations to Marshall Stinnett of Portales, who had officially become publisher of the Portales News-Tribune, succeeding his father, Marion Stinnett, long-time business manager for the paper. “The younger Stinnett has headed the newspaper’s advertising sales department for nearly 20 years,” Southard wrote, adding, “Gordon Greaves, an uncle of the new publisher, will continue as editor.” 1973...
WASHINGTON — For over an hour Tuesday night, Presidential Donald Trump vied with pugnacious Trump. The White House had promised a conciliatory and uplifting State of the Union speech, which stood to reason. It's one thing to inveigh against the mess Trump said he inherited a year ago and another to laud the job he claims to have done cleaning it up. Gone, then, was the wreckage, the ruin and the dystopian "American carnage" he deplored in the glowering speech at his i...
SIERRA VISTA, ARIZONA — A man was arrested Tuesday in Arizona, charged with sexually assaulting a 4-year old girl in Fort Sumner in September, according to New Mexico State Police. Robert M. Kelsey, 47, was arrested in Sierra Vista, Arizona, where he will be arraigned before facing extradition to New Mexico on a charge of felony criminal sexual contact of a minor under the age of 13, said the NMSP press release. Police said they were contacted Jan. 20 to investigate the allegations....
CLOVIS — Kids these days have busy schedules. Between sports, clubs, jobs and other extracurricular activities, there’s not much time left in the day for students to deal with their most important task — their schoolwork. Because of this, Clovis High School officials have rearranged the daily schedule to include a 28-minute period of time called homeroom. First implemented on Jan. 25, school officials view homeroom as a time for students to make up missed assignments, receive extra help from their teacher and peers or just...
ENMU alumnus returns as presenter PORTALES — From magician to social media mogul, an Eastern New Mexico University grad will be returning to his alma mater as a presenter. Robert Smith, a speaker on digital communication and a former magician, will take to the stage in Buchanan Hall at 6 p.m. today with his presentation “Social Media 434.” The presentation was originally geared toward brands and businesses to teach them “how to effectively use social media to tell stories,” according to Smith, but the focus will be slightly...
Jail logs Booked The following were booked into local jails Monday-Wednesday: Clovis • Eduardo Vargas, 22, aggravated battery against a household member • Angel Gallo-Davis, 29, possession of a controlled substance • Thomas Newton, 24, criminal sexual penetration • Rahman Buchanan, 18, criminal sexual penetration • Isaiah Edley, 19, criminal sexual penetration • Hector Flores, 23, probation violation • Manuel Rivera, 44, battery • Robert Burgess, 37, theft of identity, fraud • Manuel Rodriguez, 29, aggravated batter...
CLOVIS — For the second time in as many meetings, the Clovis City Commission will have a study session on implementation of the city’s water master assurance plan. A study session held during the commission’s Jan. 18 meeting took nearly three times as long as the meeting preceding it, with Commissioner Ladona Clayton leading discussion on the five action plans that comprise the master plan that took about a year to create. The five action plans are effluent water reuse, water banking, playa lake restoration, land and water tr...
