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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Local law officers arrested two Portales men on Tuesday, charging them with drug trafficking. According to a news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller: • A search warrant was conducted in the 500 block of South Avenue A in Portales, resulting in the arrests of Ebenezer Zamora-Palacios, 20, and David Zamora-Palacios, 24. The search netted 1.3 pounds of bulk and prepackaged suspected cocaine and 25.3 grams of bulk and prepackaged suspected marijuana. The cocaine has an estimated street value of $31,000. Portales p...
CLOVIS — Tuesday's snowstorm means school's out Wednesday for Clovis Municipal Schools. School officials said Tuesday they will close campuses primarily to ensure safety for students and staff. "Multiple factors must be considered when making a determination to close our schools, one of which being the extensive time and effort involved in clearing parking lots and sidewalks at the District’s 22 sites," read a school news release. "With limited equipment and staff available for this task, and significant snow cover from (Tu...
XLOVIS — Spending her college years in Las Cruces, continuing her swimming career at New Mexico State University, wasn’t even on Hannah Luscombe’s radar. That was until last September, when the Clovis High senior took a recruiting trip to NMSU and started getting hooked. The following week she was back in Las Cruces for another recruiting trip. And everything about New Mexico State — from the campus, to NMSU swim coach Rick Pratt, to her potential NMSU teammates — continued...
PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico’s women’s basketball team is getting set to face the defending national champion, and hopes it can also pick up a win over Angelo State. Sound familiar? It should be, as the script flips on the home sites in Lone Star Conference play this week. The men’s and women’s basketball teams are getting set for a Thursday matchup at Angelo State, followed by a Saturday doubleheader at Lubbock Christian after playing the same squads two weeks ago at Greyhound Arena. For both of the teams, the games rep...
PORTALES — Senior guard Elijah Holifield scored 23 points and Western New Mexico erased an eight-point deficit with less than 14 minutes remaining to beat Eastern New Mexico University 81-76 in Lone Star Conference men’s basketball on Saturday at Greyhound Arena. Sophomore guard Tony Avalos scored 15 points off the bench for the Mustangs (5-16, 4-9 LSC), while senior guard-forward C.J. Vanbeekum added 14 and sophomore guard Malik Sanders fell just short of a triple-double with 12 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. Jun...
SAN ANGELO, Texas — To say it was a long opening weekend for the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team would be a major understatement. The good news may be that the Greyhounds won’t see Angelo State again — unless it’s in the Lone Star The Rams, ranked 11th in NCAA Division II, pummeled the Hounds to the tune of 46-4 in sweeping the three-game series. After winning Friday’s opener 10-1, Angelo racked up wins of 26-3 on Saturday and 10-0 on Sunday — both ending in the seventh inning on the 10-run rule. Senior righ...
LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team appeared to be on its way to a season-opening doubleheader sweep on Saturday against New Mexico Highlands when apparent darkness got in the way. The Greyhounds edged the Cowgirls 2-1 in a pitchers’ duel before the teams erupted for a combined 31 runs in the first three innings of the nightcap. After a scoreless fourth inning with first-game starters Brook Leger of ENMU and Belinda Gonzalez of Highlands back in the circle, umpires ruled there was not enough sunli...
