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A Carlsbad woman who told police she was beaten with golf clubs has died in a Roswell hospital. A Roosevelt County man on Tuesday was arrested and charged with murder in connection with Subrina Calderon’s death. Thomas Ray Lopez, 32, was arrested Tuesday according to 9th Judicial District Attorney Brian Stover. Lopez is charged with murder in the first degree, kidnapping, resisting an officer and a number of other charges in relation to the incident that allegedly took place over several days in late February. According to a...
BASKETBALL State tournaments (Seeds in parentheses) NOTE: First-round and quarterfinal games at sites of higher seeds. Boys CLASS 5A Saturday’s first round (1) Las Cruces High 84, (16) Albuquerque High 34 (9) Sandia 49, (8) Santa Fe High 46 (5) Atrisco Heritage 62, (12) Eldorado 58 (4) Hobbs 80, (13) Farmington 66 (3) La Cueva 67, (14) West Mesa 34 (6) Los Lunas 59, (11) Rio Rancho Cleveland 53 (10) Carlsbad 49, (7) Rio Rancho 47 (2) Volcano Vista 74, (15) Organ Mountain 41 Wednesday’s quarterfinals Sandia at Las Cruces Hig...
Incumbents easily swept Portales City Council races on Tuesday, while Clovis will soon have two new members of its city commission if unofficial vote totals hold. Clovis' race for District 1 commissioner was a tight one - so tight the Secretary of State's Office has flagged it for a recount. Unofficial totals show George Jones defeated incumbent James Burns 208 votes to 205. The date of that recount remained unclear heading into the weekend. Clovis' City Clerk LeighAnn...
The books listed below are now available for checkout at the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The library is open to the public, but patrons can still visit the online catalog at cloviscarverpl.booksys.net/opac/ccpl or call 575-769-7840 to request a specific item for curbside pickup. “West of the Big River: The Dime Novelist” by Clay More. Adventurer, showman, charlatan, best-selling author, Ned Buntline was all of these things and more. Buntline, whose real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson, produced hundreds of dime nov...
CLOVIS - Growing up, Jenny Owens moved around a lot. Amongst all the moves, the Michigan-born daughter of a pastor spent several years in Clovis while her father worked at the Nazarene church in the area. Her family eventually moved to Arizona, where she now claims as her home state. After spending her college years in San Diego, and another few in Colorado, Owens' journey back to Clovis has everything to do with falling in love, planning a family and the benefits of...
I think he’s dead, my wife told me over the phone with breaking voice. It’s not the kind of phone call anyone wants to receive — even if it is about a dog. I comforted her and told her I would be right home. She said, “I keep calling him and he won’t get up off the dog bed.” I urged her to stay calm. I knew full well this senior citizen dog has a habit of ignoring her and he has a habit of really zoning out when he gets serious about sleeping. Often I can walk right up to...
Political newcomer Izzy Carrasco is the Republican who’ll be on the ballot this November for county judge in Parmer County. Carrasco, a former Texas Department of Public Safety officer, beat longtime County Sheriff Randy Geries, 801 votes to 602, in Tuesday’s primary election. Will Anderson, who dropped out of the race to support Geries after ballots were printed, received 47 votes. In other Parmer County contested races: For Parmer County Justice of the Peace Precinct 1: Rhonda Wilkins won with 370 votes to Joe Laf...
A fee schedule for Clovis Community College that appears to feature large increases in "programmatic textbook fees" for radiology courses but mostly leaves fees unchanged received approval Thursday from the college's board of trustees. The programmatic textbook fee for a first-semester Radiologic Technology program Fall 2022 was listed as $755, compared to a listing of $144 when the program was last offered in the fall semester of 2021. A fourth-semester Radiologic Technology...
New sheriffs will be in town next year. The process for replacing Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller and Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker begins Tuesday as candidates sign up for the June 7 New Mexico primary. Both Waller and Parker are term limited after eight years in office and cannot run again. While Tuesday is the official filing date, familiar faces in law enforcement have already announced they will seek the sheriff jobs – Mike Reeves in Curry County and Javier Sanchez in Roosevelt County. Reeves is a retired C...
CARLSBAD — The Clovis High girls track team opened its season in Thursday’s Ralph Bowyer Invitational, as did the Portales boys and girls. No team scores were available on the girls’ side at press time on Friday. Meantime, the Rams finished with 20 team points. CHS girls coach Darrel Ray surmised that his squad finished “third or fourth” in the meet. “We’re a couple of clicks behind everybody,” Ray said. “We haven’t had great weather so far and we haven’t done a good job of conditioning yet.” Highlighting the Lady C...
HOBBS - Clovis High's baseball team dropped an 8-1 decision to Los Lunas on Thursday in the opener of a four-team, round-robin tournament hosted by Hobbs. The Wildcats (1-1) grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first when junior Joseph Albert singled and eventually scored on a single by junior Jasiahs Jimenez. But it was all Tigers after that. "They're very athletic," CHS coach Richard Cruce said of Los Lunas. "They have a lot of kids who played on their state (Class 5A)...
PORTALES — A former Roosevelt County Sheriff’s deputy convicted last year of receiving stolen property is now facing felony child abuse charges, records show. The former deputy, Chris McCasland, was charged Tuesday with child abuse not causing great bodily injury, a third-degree felony, in Roosevelt County Magistrate Court. In an affidavit for McCasland’s arrest, New Mexico State Police Agent Justin Tiemann charged that on Feb. 14, McCasland had struck his 7-year-old son repeatedly while McCasland was driving a motor vehic...
LAWTON, Okla. — Eastern New Mexico University’s women got off to a fast start and kept it up for much of the game, but Cameron was able to pull out a down-to-the-wire 88-85 win over the Greyhounds on Tuesday night in the opening round of the Lone Star Conference women’s basketball tournament. The victory advanced the sixth-seeded Aggies (17-10) to a quarterfinal match on Friday against third-seeded Texas A&M-Commerce (24-3) at Frisco, Texas. “It was everything you expect a Lone Star Conference game to be,” first-yea...
As the mask restrictions lift, it makes me think about the last two years. Two years of policy adjustments, two years of forgetting to put on a mask or running into a locked door. I led a number of trainings and presentations on COVID and its psychological impact. In the beginning, I talked about the “new normal” and embracing it to help reduce the stress of COVID. That said, the “new normal” was accepting the current reality of COVID and the “old normal” was going to return at some point. After the first six months or s...
State Sen. William Sharer is a marvelous storyteller with the ability to go on at length on a wide variety of subjects. Recently, he regaled his restless Senate colleagues on the final day of the session, as time ran out on a voting rights bill that had been one of the top priorities for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. Sharer took the floor during the “announcements and miscellaneous” portion of the session, when lawmakers can talk about whatever they want for as long as they want. He began by thanking legislative staff for thei...
This was going to be a song of praise. Instead, it will be a groan of frustration. In other words, it was going to be a column heralding the titanic courage of Ukraine in the face of Russian attack, the acts of defiance that have endeared that nation to the world. Like the woman who gave a Russian soldier sunflower seeds so that Ukraine’s national flower might bloom from his corpse, or the comedian turned president who has rallied his people like some latter-day Churchill, o...
The headline for an editorial in my local paper last week read, “If they spied on Trump, they might spy on you.” If you replace the word “Trump,” with the words, “the president of the United States,” you would have a more accurate picture of where we find ourselves in our country at this time. Not only did “they” spy on Trump the candidate, “they” spied on Trump the president of the United States. Also, the headline would then read, “If “they” spied on the president of the Uni...
If anyone had any doubt that Ukraine has its own national identity, the early days of the Russian invasion should have eliminated it. There’s been the stiff resistance of Ukraine’s fighters, the former president giving interviews in the streets of Kyiv in battle gear, the ordinary men and women insulting and defying Russian soldiers and, above all, the comedian-turned-president, the now legendary Volodymyr Zelenskyy, refusing to leave his capital as Russian forces bear dow...
There is little that Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree on nowadays, so we are heartened to see them come together to support the people of Ukraine. Bipartisan calls are growing louder to extend temporary protections to Ukrainians already in the U.S., and we hope the Biden administration will listen. The special protection, called Temporary Protected Status or TPS, shields recipients from deportation for 18 months and gives them permission to work. Eligible people include Ukrainians who are here on nonimmigrant...
A new crime map on the Clovis Police Department’s website now shows Clovis residents what misdeeds have occurred in the area around where they live. Captain Roman Romero wrote in a news release that the “Community Crime Map” is a user-friendly way to learn about incidents of particular types of crime, search date ranges and obtain information about registered sex offenders. The web address for the Community Crime Map is https://communitycrimemap.com/. The map may also be accessed through the Clovis Police Department web p...
The Volunteer Action Center, part of the United Way of Eastern New Mexico believes there are people worthy of the President’s Volunteer Service award in eastern New Mexico. Casey Peacock, coordinator for the UWENM’s Volunteer Action Center says the President’s Volunteer Service Award is the premier service award program. There are three levels of awards in the program: Bronze, silver and gold. Peacock writes in a news release that the application period for the awards is open until March 14th. Peacock encourages people who a...
CLOVIS — Six inmates have been accused of trying to break out of the Curry County Adult Detention Center. The incident happened the first week of last month but came to light Friday as all six were charged in Curry County Magistrate Court. Justin L. Tipton, Damon A. Martinez, Marcello Garza, Tevyn W. Driever, Vicente J. Torres-Gurrola and Jesus L. Anaya Jr. were each charged with “Escape from jail” in violation of state law. According to each of the affidavits for arrest warrants issued Feb. 2, Sgt. Sonny Wilcox of the Curry...
Monday-March 25 *Kindergarten-ENMU 13th annual Juried Art Exhibition – Runnels Gallery, ENMU Golden Student Success Center, Portales. Available during all library hours. Coordinated by Bryan Hahn. Information: 575-562-2189 Today *White Sands Dog Agility Trials – 8 a.m-5 p.m., Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady, Clovis. Public is welcome to attend for free. Information: 575-935-7000 *St. Paw-Trick’s Day Adoption Event – 10 a.m.-4 p.m., PetSmart, 601 Texas St., Clovis. Cats, kittens, dogs, puppies available for adoptio...
Monday *Portales Municipal Schools board - 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 Tuesday *Candidate filing day for the June 7 New Mexico primary – 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Curry County Clerk’s Office, 417 Gidding St., Room 130, Clovis, and Roosevelt County Clerk’s Office, 109 W. First St., Room 106, Portales. Information: https://www.sos.state.nm.us/candidate-and-campaigns/how-to-become-a-candidate/2022-primary-election-candidate-information/, or call Curry County C...
CLOVIS - A 38-year-old Clovis man is accused of shooting at a school janitor on Wednesday outside the Freshman Academy. No one was physically injured, but the janitor was "visibly shaken" after the bullet hit "approximately two feet above his head as he entered the building," court records show. The incident happened in the evening after school was out, District Attorney Brian Stover said. "As far as we know, no children were at risk." Marcus Phillips was in the Curry County...
