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CLOVIS - A 44-year-old Clovis man was sentenced Monday to 19 years in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Lucio Torres was found guilty of the charge on Jan. 22 by a Curry County jury. According to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb: • In May of 2019, Torres was arrested for threatening two men with a large knife. Torres resisted police officers during the arrest and drugs were located on him by detention officers at the Curry County Detention C...
Clovis' public water utility has decommissioned a "handful" of drinking water wells after finding levels of toxic "forever chemicals." The per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may have leaked into groundwater supplies from nearby Cannon Air Force Base. For decades, the manmade chemicals were used in firefighting foam for training exercises on the nation's military bases. The utility, EPCOR, notified the New Mexico Environment Department and Clovis residents last week of an "extremely low presence" of the chemicals and t... Full story
SANTA FE — State senators kicked a television reporter out of a public committee meeting Thursday, telling her she was not allowed to film the hearing. Rachel Knapp, who covers the Legislature for KRQE-TV in Albuquerque, was filming the Senate Conservation Committee’s deliberations on a hazardous waste bill when Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, interrupted the meeting to ask the reporter if she had permission to record. “I just figured it was a public meeting,” Knapp told the legislator in response, according to a recording of...
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning — in effect from 11 p.m. Monday through 11 p.m. Tuesday — for eastern New Mexico. Forecasters are predicting heavy snow, with accumulations of 4 to 7 inches, across Curry, De Baca and Roosevelt counties. NWS warns “Travel could be very difficult. Breezy conditions may result in localized areas of blowing snow and reduced visibility.” Temperatures are expected to dip into the 20s or below Monday night through Wednesday morning. The high for Tuesday is expecte... Full story
By Kevin Wilson EDITOR [email protected] MELROSE - The Melrose and Logan girls basketball teams expect to see each other multiple times between Thursday and the conclusion of the season, and possibly for the Class 1A championship. But for as much as both teams appreciate and respect the other, they're admittedly tired of seeing each other and crossing one potential meeting off the list was a victory in itself. With a big fourth quarter from Karli Webb, the visiting...
CLOVIS - In golf they would call it the front nine. In District 4-5A basketball it's the front three. Clovis High's boys basketball team wrapped up the first half of its district schedule Friday night, beating Roswell 64-49 at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. With that victory, the Wildcats had gone through the district's Carlsbad-Hobbs-Roswell sequence once, and will start it over again this Tuesday night when they begin their back three by hosting Carlsbad. The 'Cats went 2-1 in...
PORTALES - Things were a little shaky early for the Portales High girls on Friday night. But not for long. Trailing 9-4, the Lady Rams erupted for 17 unanswered points and never looked back in a 54-34 District 4-4A victory over Artesia at the Ram Athletic Center. Portales stretched its winning streak to seven games heading into Saturday night's makeup of Tuesday's snowout at Roswell Goddard. PHS extended its run to 25-4 before the Lady Bulldogs' Elliot Harrison hit a 3-pointer...
LUBBOCK — It didn’t take Lubbock Christian long on Saturday to put the kibosh on any hopes of a second upset for Eastern New Mexico University’s women. The Lady Chaps, defending NCAA Division II champions, had a 25-game winning streak dating to last season snapped in a 69-68 overtime loss at Greyhound Arena on Jan. 16. This time, though, they scored the game’s first seven points and led by as much as 30 in a 77-53 Lone Star Conference victory over the Greyhounds. Junior forward Emma Middleton poured in 26 points on 9-of-11...
PORTALES — The Artesia boys basketball roster lists five players at 6-foot-3 or taller, four of whom started. Meantime, Portales has just one. The size differential was a key factor as the Bulldogs captured Friday’s District 4-4A matchup over PHS 67-59 at the Ram Athletic Center. Six-foot-4 junior guard Tucker Smotherman had five of Artesia’s six 3-pointers and finished with 17 points, while 6-6 senior post Cole Kincaid added 15 points and harassed the Rams’ attempts at penetration with several blocked shots. Portale...
ROSWELL — Just like her team, Clovis High senior Aydan Everett got off to a bit of a slow start on Friday night. But the 5-foot-6 senior guard warmed up after that, scoring all but one of her personal-best 19 points over the final three stanzas as the Lady Wildcats pulled away for a 49-33 District 4-5A win over Roswell High. CHS (10-13, 2-1 district) outscored the Lady Coyotes 28-9 over the middle two stanzas, including 16-4 in the second period, after being held to five tallies in the opening frame. Junior Alandra Romero and...
CLOVIS - Making the ordinary plays was what got the Melrose Buffaloes an early lead Thursday night. Hot shooting and hustle for extraordinary plays turned it into a blowout. Melrose led by double digits for the final 18 minutes and by as much as 34 in the second half of an 80-53 win, giving the family of Buffs coach Kevin Lackey plenty of time to fill his office with 200 balloons to celebrate that many wins over nine seasons with Dora and Melrose. "That just means I've...
PORTALES - Be it ever so frosty there's no place like home. Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team played its home opener against Texas A&M International on Friday, with remnants of last Tuesday's snowstorm still evident. There were patches of snow and ice here and there outside of Greyhound Field, but Friday's late-afternoon weather, while chilly and a little breezy, was also bright and sunny to start the game. So baseball it was for the first Friday of February....
LUBBOCK — Eastern New Mexico University’s softball team pushed across three runs in the top of the eighth on Friday to beat Colorado State-Pueblo 10-7 at Frenship H.S. in Wolfforth and earn a split on the first day of Lubbock Christian’s Sports College Invitational. Earlier in the day, the Greyhounds (2-1) dropped an 8-4 decision to Nebraska-Kearney at Cooper Field in Lubbock. They were slated to face Southern Nazarene and Newman on Saturday night before closing out the event with games today against Colorado-Colorado Sprin...
PORTALES — By the time signing day had finished Wednesday for Eastern New Mexico University, there was plenty of excitement to go around, but not much surprise. “The closer it comes to the signing date, the less things change once they commit,” ENMU coach Kelley Lee said after the Greyhounds completed an offseason that added 50 new names and faces to the Green and Silver fold. “Early commits can sometimes be another story.” Starting with Alex Folz, one of nine mid-year transfers, and ending with Elida’s Will Haley, one of 41...
LSC tournament tickets go on sale Monday RICHARDSON, Texas — Advance tickets for the 2020 Lone Star Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Championship are on sale now online through Ticketmaster and at the Comerica Center box office, and will be available at LSC member institutions with all-session passes $15 off the regular price beginning Monday and continuing through March 4. The LSC Championship will be held March 3-8, with first-round games March 3 at school sites and the final three rounds March 5-8 at the Comerica Ce...
ELIDA — Elida’s boys continued their season-long domination of Dora on Thursday night with a 69-52 in a District 4-1A makeup of Tuesday’s weather-related postponement. Sophomore Rylan Creighton scored 24 points for the Tigers (18-3, 4-1 district) while junior Teagan Burton added 10. For the Coyotes (9-10, 3-2), who host Elida in the district and regular-season finale on Feb. 21, sophomore Cache Skelley collected 18 points and senior Haiden Padgett chipped in 10. Meantime, Dora (7-11, 3-2) claimed a 53-32 victory over the L...
PECOS — The Texico boys basketball team got a first-hand look at just how good Pecos is on Friday night. The Class 2A top-ranked and two-time defending state champion Panthers held the Wolverines to just 19 points over the first three quarters and notched a 60-44 victory in District 7-2A competition. Seniors Anthony Armijo (24) and Xavier Padilla (22) accounted for more than three-quarters of the team’s points as Pecos (21-1, 3-0 district) extended its winning streak to 18 games. Senior Luke Phipps led Texico (13-6, 1-2) wit...
CLOVIS — Wildcat football coach Cal Fullerton started Wednesday’s college signing celebration by noting he tells his players to leave things better than how they found them. With Bryce Cabeldue, Ethan Culiver and Malik Phillips aboard, the Wildcat program went to its first state semifinal round in 10 years. Now they’re looking to make a pair of college football programs better, with Cabeldue joining Division-I Kansas and Culiver and Phillips heading the juco route at New Mexico Military Institute. The three were honored Wedne...
PORTALES — Any given year in New Mexico prep football, a team in Class 4A with one of the best five players in the state is a good bet to win a state championship even with an average supporting cast. Philip Blidi was certainly that for the Portales Rams, but the teammates joining him on signing day Wednesday showed exactly why the Rams not only won the 4A title but dominated the field. Blidi kept to his season-long commitment to Texas Tech, Wromiah Gbassagee and Justin Paden joined Eastern New Mexico and Jalen Allen s...
SANTA FE — A slim majority of adults in New Mexico support a red-flag law that would allow for the temporary removal of firearms from individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others, according to an Albuquerque Journal Poll. The Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act passed the state Senate on Friday by a vote of 22-20. It now moves to the House, where it could be addressed in committee within the next few days. The telephone survey found that 52% of adults support the law and 37% are opposed. The rest had mixed f...
Monday • For the Love of Dental and Heart Health — 10 a.m.-noon, La Casa Family Health Center, 1521 W. 13th Street, Clovis. Free dental screenings for children and adults; free adult blood pressure checks. Information: 575-769-0888 • Rural Bookmobile East in Grady — 10-11:30 a.m., Grady Municipal Schools, 100 Franklin St., Grady; 11:35 a.m.-12 noon, Grady Post Office, 406 W. Main St., Grady. Information: 575-461-1824 • Produce to People — 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Free in-season f...
These books are available at the Clovis-Carver Public Library: “Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition” by Patricia S. Churchland: Churchland delves into scientific studies, particularly the fascinating work on twins, to explore whether people have a predisposition to embrace specific ethical stands. Churchland also includes research on psychopaths who abide by no moral system, and the explanations science gives for these disturbing individuals. She then turns to philosophy — that of Socrates, Aquinas, and conte...
