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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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TEXICO — Call it a football score, call it lopsided, call it a rout. Just make sure you call it a dominant team playing good baseball as the regular season winds down. Texico took care of District 5-3A rival Clayton, 22-3, at Texico Field on Friday. And the Wolverines did so with stout pitching, timely hitting, heads-up base-running, extended rallies and capitalizing on errors. In other words, the usual stuff teams need to do regularly if wins are to be the result, the stuff teams want to be doing regularly at this time of y...
CLOVIS - The numbers say it all - eight and zero. As in 8-0, the District 2-6A records of both the Clovis and La Cueva baseball teams. They'll each head into today's regular-season-ending doubleheader at La Cueva (1 p.m.) with those unblemished district marks. They'll head out of it knowing which of them is the regular-season district champion. No pressure or anything. Actually, both teams are eager to get out there and decide it today. "Any time you get a chance to play and...
PORTALES — The Portales Police Department is investigating a fatal shooting of a 24-year-old Portales man late Thursday night, and has made an arrest. Angel Loya, 23, of Portales, was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with the death. He is being held at the Roosevelt County Detention Center on an open count of murder, according to a release from Det. Charlie Smart of the PPD. The shooting victim was not identified in the early-afternoon release, with notification of n...
CLOVIS — A Clovis police officer was injured late Thursday night following a home standoff, according to a release from the department. The officer, who was treated and released Friday morning, was not identified. According to the release from Clovis Police Capt. Roman Romero: • First responders took a call around 8:30 p.m. of a suicidal subject — reportedly a 33-year-old male who had locked himself into a house on the 100 block of Tierra Blanca. • Officers arrived on the scene to find the man, who was not identified in the...
CLOVIS - A Clovis jury ruled Friday that Curry County was not liable for damages sought by a former jail officer in a whistleblower civil suit filed more than three years ago. Weston Peasnall sought more than $200,000 from the county due to lost wages and "pain and suffering," according to his attorney Eric Dixon. The Whistleblower Protection act complaint alleged that Peasnall was demoted and ultimately harassed into resigning his position at the Curry County Adult Detention... Full story
PORTALES - Sometimes in the game of baseball, it comes down to who makes the last mistake, rather than who comes up with the key hit. That happened to be the reality for the Portales Rams in Friday's 4A-District 4 series-opener against NMMI. Portales committed six errors in a 7-6 loss to the Colts. "We definitely didn't play our best baseball. You gotta give NMMI and Coach (Charles) Ward credit, because they did a good job of taking advantage of the mistakes we made. They did...
CANYON, Texas — Centerfielder Ashley Hardin went 3-for-4 with two homers, and West Texas A&M slugged its way to a 14-1 victory Friday evening over Eastern New Mexico. Suka Van Gurp went 2-for-2 with a double, triple and three RBIs for the 12th-ranked Lady Buffs (36-10, 19-6), who had eight of their 14 hits go for extra bases. The teams will play again in a noon doubleheader to close out the regular season. The Buffs need a sweep to keep up their chances of finishing second in the Lone Star Conference standings. The top six t...
CLOVIS — A new agreement between the city of Clovis and Curry county on how the two entities share services will appear on both commission agendas on Tuesday. The previous joint powers agreement between the city and the county expired in 2016, though the city had continued to make the monthly payments of $10,833.33 to the county, or $130,000 a year, until this past February. The new intergovernmental services agreement still calls for the city to pay the county $130,000 a year, but also requires the county to pay the city $... Full story
Booked The following were booked into local jails Thursday through Friday: Clovis • John Montes, 25, driving under the influence of liquor, possession of marijuana or synthetic, open container, failure to have operating registration plate lamp, parole violation, probation violation, failure to appear on a felony charge • Cassandra Aragon, 22, embezzlement • Raul Venegas, 26, parole violation • Jon Hausmann, 37, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Michael Archibeque, 29, failure to appear at time and place stated in...
On this date ... 1973: Today was "Ray J. Lofton Day" in the state of New Mexico, thanks to a proclamation by Gov. Bruce King, which noted that Lofton has "devoted his entire professional career to the education of our youth." More than 450 people attended an appreciation reception and dinner held in honor of Lofton and his wife, Pearl, at Eastern New Mexico University's Campus Union Building. A former superintendent of the Floyd, Melrose, and Fort Sumner schools, Lofton came...
As the heat goes up, the cold-blooded critters come out. Apart from those in the wild, many reptiles will be in Amarillo this weekend for a biannual tri-state expo, and a number of them may journey to eastern New Mexico in the care of local zoo and pet store staff after it’s all said and done. Cindy Arnold, who runs a pet store in Clovis, was already in town Friday for the expo and is expected to return with crested geckos and ball pythons. She’s attended the past 15 years or so, said her daughter Cindy McGrath, and som...
CLOVIS — A Clovis man faces up to 45 years in jail following a conviction Friday afternoon on kidnapping and aggravated battery. Daniel Romero, 30, was found guilty of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated battery on a household member, interference with communications, battery, resisting arrest and intimidation of a witness. According to a release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb’s office: • Clovis police responded to a July 2016 call that a female was beaten and strangled by Romero, her estranged boyfriend. She alleg...
Tuesday • Curry County Commission — 9 a.m. at Curry County Commission chambers, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m. in the north annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St. Information: 575-769-7828 Wednesday • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m. at CCC room 512, 417 Schepps Blvd. Information: 575-769-4001 The meetings calendar is a daily listing of area events. To place an item on the calendar, call the newsroom at 575-356-4481 or e-mail: esc...
Today • Great American Cleanup — 8 a.m. to noon at city of Clovis Parks and Recreation Department, 500 Sycamore St., Clovis. Volunteers are invited to help pick up garbage. Participants will be provided a t-shirt and a pizza lunch. Information: 575-769-7870 • Paint the Prairie Dawg Dash 5k Run — 9 a.m. at Clovis Community College. Admission is $20. Information: 575-769-4944 • Substance Abuse Awareness Workshop — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Curry County Fairgrounds. Featuring presentations from Adult Drug Court, Christian B...
