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CLOVIS — A man who returned more than 16 hours late from a court-approved furlough after a plea conference Wednesday morning faces five new felony charges. The new charges include escape from a penitentiary and bringing contraband into the jail. Brandon Wagner, 33, had been sentenced Tuesday morning to 7 1/2 years in the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to identity theft and fraud pertaining to cases from last year, according to court records. Now, after f...
PORTALES — Two days, three games, four pitchers. That's what the Cameron Aggies have used so far in their Lone Star Conference series with Eastern New Mexico University. So far, it's working, as the Aggies split a pair of games Friday at Greyhound Field - the opener 4-2 for host Eastern New Mexico, the latter 9-2 for the Aggies. The Greyhounds (15-12, 1-6 LSC) will try to salvage a split in today's 1 p.m. nine-inning game at Greyhound Field before taking off the next five d...
PORTALES — The Rams' seven-run first inning accounted for most of the scoring in a 10-0 runaway victory in Friday's District 4-4A baseball opener against Ruidoso. Portales amassed four hits and four walks in the deciding opening frame. "We did a good job, really, all across the board," Rams coach Dusty Nusser said. "We struggled in the first, made a couple errors, and then Josiah (Lucero) did a good job of getting us out of it. After that, we played really good baseball, a...
MELROSE — Melrose’s baseball team has big aspirations for the spring, aspirations of heading north, playing for a state championship. Caleb King was just up there a few weeks ago, coming oh so close as head coach of the Melrose girls basketball team, and serving as an assistant coach for the Melrose boys team that won it all. King is now coaching a Buffaloes baseball team ranked at the top of Class A, a team that has a real chance of turning those aspirations into a trophy in May. To do that, the Buffs will have to beat dis...
CLOVIS — Country singer Doug Stone and rockers Warrant and Steelheart will highlight Clovis' Draggin' Main Music Festival set for June 23-30. "We think it's going to be the best one yet," festival committee Chairman Derek Cockrell said. The musical performances kick off on June 27 with Stone, continue on June 28 with a tribute to 1950s and '60s chart topper Bobby Vee and conclude on June 29 with a rock show featuring Warrant and special guests Steelheart. After several y...
CLOVIS — The results are in from Curry County's community readiness survey to gauge the area's ability to tackle the problems associated with opioid abuse and underage drinking: The county's Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (OSAP) believes more education and awareness about the issues is needed. Curry County OSAP Coordinator Shannon Loughery said the survey results indicated to her that more attention needs to be brought to the fact there is an issue with opioid use b...
FORT SUMNER — Time can bury many things, but healing truly begins when more people remember a tragedy. So say officials organizing an event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Bosque Redondo. From 1863 to 1868, the U.S. military removed 9,500 Navajo and 500 Mescalero Apache from their homelands and imprisoned them on a 1,600 square mile reservation near Fort Sumner. The Bosque Redondo Memorial sits on this site as a reminder of the tribes’ hardships and resilience through it all, said Bosque Redondo Mem...
On this date ... 1983: The Hotel Clovis was profiled in the Clovis News-Journal after it closed its doors the previous day following 51 years of business. The closing was brought on by the loss of a long-standing contract with the Santa Fe Railway system to house employees who had overnight trips. When the hotel opened on October, 1931, the $300,000 building was said to be the tallest between Albuquerque and Dallas. Hundreds attended the opening celebration, which featured a...
What would spring be without some cleaning? April will be a month of both beautifying and recycling on the High Plains, with the first event taking place in Portales. The 2018 Great American Cleanup is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. April 7 at the Memorial Building and run until 1 p.m. in Portales. In that time, volunteers will disperse across the city — individually and in teams — to see how many bags of trash they can collect. Prizes will be given at the end of the day for the most bags of trash collected, the largest gro...
Even free books find a way back It's almost the opposite issue from Fahrenheit 451: nobody wants to throw away a book. Nor does anyone seem much inclined to trash old VHS tapes, lectures on cassette, magazines or any of the other number of items that regularly appear on the "free table" in the Clovis-Carver Public Library. In the past four or five years, the humble folding table just inside the main entrance there has been the last stop, so to speak, for items deemed...
TEXICO — Law enforcement is investigating allegations of hazing with the defending Class 3A champion Texico High School baseball team. Texico Police Chief Doug Bowman this week confirmed his department is looking into one or more alleged hazing incidents during bus trips. “I’m working with the schools and we are investigating to see if it is true, or just kids talking,” Bowman said Thursday. “We’re talking to lots of kids, so I don’t even want to try to give a timeline.” Texico Superintendent Rob Brown said Friday he was m...
PORTALES — Texas A&M-Commerce drilled three late-inning home runs to pull away for an 11-3 victory over Eastern New Mexico in Friday's Lone Star Conference softball rubber match. The Lions finished the three-game sweep of the Hounds with 36 runs scored. "We'll take it," Lions coach Richie Bruister said. "You got a good chance to win when you score that many runs. Definitely a good weekend for us, offensively. We put good swings on it, and (ENMU) made some pitches we were a...
Today • Clovis Community Easter Egg Hunt — 9 a.m. at Guy Leeder Softball Complex, 1801 E. 14th St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Portales Easter Egg Hunt — 2 p.m. at Portales Softball Complex, 201 N. Industrial Dr., Portales. Information: 575-359-4870 Tuesday • Skywarn Spotter Training Class — 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. The Albuquerque National Weather Service will train volunteer weather spotters for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. Information...
Monday • Community Development Block Grant Public Hearing — Noon at Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Community is invited to submit input on community development needs and suggestions for future CDBG projects. Information: 575-356-5307 Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. in Curry County Commission chambers, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m. at Clovis Municipal Airport, 459 Clovis Road 11.5, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 • Community...
Jail logs Booked The following were booked into local jails Thursday: Clovis • Debra Gonzales, 48, possession of a controlled substance, false evidence of title and registration • Laniqua Salinas, 25, driving while license suspended or revoked • McKenis Gooch, 24, battery against a household member • Matthew McKenzie, 19, out of state fugitive • Bobby Kirven, 29, contempt of court • Hayden Blanton, 21, failure to pay fines • Roderick Hohnson, 54, battery, assault upon a peace officer, resisting, evading or obstructing a...
