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The suspect in the March 29 armed robbery of Allsup’s convenience store on Mitchell Street has turned himself in to authorities. According to a press release from CPD Captain Robbie Telles, the robbery happened just before 1 a.m. March 29. Officers were sent to the store at 1020 N. Mitchell St. for a report of an armed robbery. On arrival, officers searched the area for the robbery suspect. Speaking to store personnel officers learned the store had been robbed at gunpoint. T...
For Lupe Garcia, "Music is feeling it. The way you feel music is very important." Garcia plays saxophone for Los Huracanes Del Norte, the Norteño band featured this Saturday night at the Clovis Music Festival at the Curry County Events Center. Garcia said the show is going to be special. "We're doing our 50th anniversary tour," Garcia said. "We're bringing a lot of musicians with us. They'll be warming the crowd up with banda and mariachi music. We'll probably join them for...
When you hear of inmates at the Curry County Adult Detention Center, you may not associate them with "town hall meetings" and instructional courses. But those meetings and the courses have come to the CCADC under the direction of Administrator Mark Gallegos. "We started the courses in February and since then detainees and inmates have completed a total of 980 individual courses," Gallegos said. Gallegos said each person incarcerated receives a tablet to utilize to make phone...
PORTALES – For two innings on Thursday, Portales High's softball team played right with the state's second-ranked Class 4A squad. Unfortunately, it didn't last. Tied 4-4 after the second, the Lady Bulldogs ran away to a 17-4 victory, then beat PHS 20-0 in the nightcap in District 4-4A openers for both squads. Game 1 lasted six innings while the nightcap went five due to the 10-run lead rule, with Artesia scoring in all 11 frames. Nine batters hit safely in the opener for t...
WICHITA FALLS, Texas – After dropping a heartbreaker in the opener, the Eastern New Mexico University softball team came back for a 7-3 win over Midwestern State and a split of Thursday’s Lone Star Conference doubleheader. MSU (7-30, 6-22 LSC) took the lidflifter 6-5 in 11 innings despite a stellar performance out of the bullpen by Greyhounds freshman right-hander Marissa Rodriguez, who threw 10 1/3 innings and allowed just two runs. The teams were to finish the series with a single tilt on Friday. Despite the loss, the Hound...
LOVINGTON – Clovis High’s girls finished just two strokes behind Lovington for team honors in Thursday’s Lovington Invite golf tournament. Lovington finished at 367 to 369 for the Lady Wildcats. Portales High was fourth in the five-team event at 450. On the boys’ side, Lovington shot 313 to finish 10 strokes ahead of New Mexico Military. Clovis Christian was fourth in the eight-team competition at 342 while the Wildcats were sixth at 359. Three players shot under 100 for the Lady Cats, led by senior Jolie Adkins at 44-40 ...
LAS VEGAS. N.M. – Portales High’s baseball team put a little distance between itself and the .500 mark on Thursday. The Rams blew out West Las Vegas 15-6, then held on late for a 7-6 win over Robertson to improve to 9-6 and extend their winning streak to four games. “We put the ball in play today,” PHS coach Ruben Tellez said. “The kids are working hard, and I’m proud of them. We just have to work on the little things and keep playing as a team.” Junior Kaiden Gutierrez had a seventh-inning grand slam and drove in five runs...
PORTALES – Clovis High senior R.J. Nora is tuning up for Class 5A state track competition next month. Nora took first place in the 110 hurdles, third in triple jump and long jump and ran on two relays to help the Wildcats finish third in Portales High's George-Love Relays track meet on Thursday at Greyhound Stadium. Clovis finished with 58 ½ points in the 12-team event, trailing Artesia (93 ½) and Hobbs (88 ½). Meantime, the host Rams were seventh with 3...
FORT SMITH, Ark. – Freshman left fielder Jonatan Clough drove in five runs, two on a go-ahead homer in the top of the seventh, and Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team rallied past Arkansas-Fort Smith 11-6 on Thursday in the opener of a four-game Lone Star Conference series. The teams were slated to play two games on Friday and a single contest on Saturday to complete the series. Thursday’s win vaulted the Greyhounds (16-18, 14-18) into a tie for seventh place with idle St. Mary’s, with the top eight qualify...
ALBUQUERQUE – Things certainly have turned around in the past few weeks for Clovis High’s baseball team. Since going 1-6 to begin the season, the Wildcats have won eight of their last 10, including a 13-11 triumph at Sandia on Tuesday, to climb above the .500 mark (9-8) for the first time this season. CHS scored four runs in the second to tie the Matadors, then fell behind 7-4 before pulling even again at 7-7 with a three-run sixth. Then the Cats tallied six times in the top of the seventh, but had to hang on in the bottom ha...
On this date ... 1945: Tickets were available at Portales Drug for the upcoming “Benefit Variety Show” at the Portales High School Auditorium. Acts included a “boogie-woogie pianist” and a “famous escape artist.” Proceeds were to benefit the Clovis Air Base Hospital. Admission was 60 cents for adults, 30 cents for children. Organizers reported they cleared $240 from the event, despite the death of President Roosevelt on the day of the show. 1950: Roosevelt County reported its January sales were up 5% from January 1949. Overa...
Monday *City of Clovis Water Policy Advisory Committee – 8:30 a.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees study session – 2 p.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: http://www.clovis.edu/about/administration.aspx or 575-769-4001 *Civic Center Policy Committee...
Why isn’t “Clovis Man” used in branding Clovis? “Clovis Man” was so named when archaeologists gathered significant evidence of a population of humans who lived in North America more than 13,000 years ago in the Blackwater Draw Site in Roosevelt County. Researchers named the “Clovis culture” because of the distinctive spear points and other stone tools first found not far from Clovis in the 1920s. “I agree our logo should involve Clovis Man,” Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ernie Kos said. “But the c...
Today *Easter *Jurassic Empire drive-thru event – 10 a.m.-8 p.m., parking lot, North Plains Mall, 2809 N. Prince St., Clovis. Large, realistic moving dinosaurs. Vehicle with 1-7 passengers - $55.00 plus $4.50 ticket fee; vehicle with 8-14 passengers $85.00 plus $6.99 ticket fee. Tickets good for two-hour increments; drive-thru takes one hour or longer. Tickets available online, or onsite if not sold out. Information and to buy advance tickets: https://www.jurassicempire.com/events/clovis-nm *ENMU School of Music presents ...
Booked The following were booked into local jail (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Stephan Martinez-Sanchez, 29, possession of drug paraphernalia, concealing identity, criminal damage to property • Tevyn Driever, 26, trafficking, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, tampering with evidence • Eric Lopez, 24, breaking and entering • Lyle Case, 38, receiving stolen property • Maria Mondragon, 26, battery against a household member • Justin Sneed, 34, breaking and entering, c...
Now that Donald Trump has officially been indicted, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others have been targeted by disturbed protestors threatening retribution and even death. Even Trump warned of “potential death and destruction” once he was charged in a probe of hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. “The political Rubicon has been crossed. There’s no going back from this,” Charlie Kirk, a right-wing talk show host, wrote on Truth Social, T...
Set aside the politics of it all and there’s poetic justice to the fact that Donald Trump is facing his first criminal charges out of New York. After all, that’s where he was created. I’m of the opinion that it would have been better to have first charged him with trying to steal the 2020 election, which appears obvious in a recorded conversation with the Georgia secretary of state in which Trump tried to “find” the votes necessary to turn the election in his favor. Or he could have been indicted first for his role in the Ja...
China brokered a truce between Saudi Arabia and Iran in March. Tensions had been high between Iran and Saudi Arabia since the kingdom broke off ties with Iran in 2016. This deal should impact the civil war in Yemen, where Houthi insurgents with links to Iran took control of Yemen’s capital Sana’a, demanding a new government. In March 2015, a coalition of Gulf states led by Saudi Arabia, began a campaign of air strikes against the insurgents with U.S. logistical and int...
There was a small, but significant victory for free speech during the recent legislative session. A measure that would have made already-hostile privacy laws for nonprofit causes even worse was miraculously killed on the House floor. Senate Bill 42 had already been adopted by the Senate, so this was truly a last-ditch effort. Current laws relating to forcing nonprofits to disclose their donors are already being challenged by the Rio Grande Foundation in court. That original...
The last few years have been especially rough for those of us who aren’t fans of tyranny. Or who won’t tolerate it at all. It seems like the authoritarian control freaks of the world decided they could get away with anything. By the look of things, they might be right. No, I don’t believe they all got together in a secret supervillain conclave and decided this was their chance. I think they just did what they have always wanted to do, and the people let them do it harde...
Today is a good day to remember Jesus of Nazareth, a carpenter and a king and a servant. If you don’t know the story, he was killed by a bunch of religious people about 2,000 years ago because they didn’t like what he had to say. Here’s the most important thing he had to say: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Christians today celebrate the resur...
Their uniforms will be yellow and black, they won't have a firearm or handcuffs and their strongest police power will be writing parking tickets if they need to. That's a brief description of the new Police Service Aide (PSA) position in the Clovis Police Department (CPD), approved unanimously by Clovis City Commissioners at their first regular meeting of April. Commissioners heard from CPD Deputy Police Chief Trevor Thron as he went through a PowerPoint presentation on PSA...
Christy Waite will forever remember the impact Duane Ryan had on her career as a broadcast journalist. "Being in college and, you know, learning how to do all of that stuff can be really overwhelming. But he's so encouraging," she said last week from Greenville, S.C., where she works as a morning anchor for a television station. "I don't even know if he knows the impact that he's had on so many of our lives. You know, a lot of us are the journalists we are today because of...
Every day, Bonetta Hutson wakes up and prays. At age 63, she preaches weekly at Living Word Church of God. But this is a special week for her church and churches worldwide. It's Easter. "It's our Super Bowl," Hutson said Thursday afternoon, smiling while preparing small cups of juice for communion at the evening service. Hutson is the church's new pastor, beginning her time as a church minister last year and being a congregation member since 2010. She said this Easter is uniqu...
A Farwell school bus was involved in a seven-vehicle pileup Tuesday afternoon, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The crash happened close to 3:45 p.m. CDT, about four miles east of Farwell on U.S. 70, Cindy Barkley with DPS said. Barkley said “zero visibility” caused the crash as 50-mph winds whipped dirt across the road. Twenty kids were on the school bus, but only one sustained minor injuries according to Barkley. No one else was hurt in the pileup, she said. Barkley said drivers were going slow, whi... Full story
