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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The Portales Poilce Department is investigating a fatal shooting Friday night. According to a release from the PPD: • The department responded at 5:33 p.m. to a report of a female with a possible gunshot injury on the 600 block of West 17th Lane. • A female was found at the scene and transported to Roosevelt General Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. The department declined to identify the victim Friday night, citing pending notification of the family. The incident is unrelated to a Friday shoot...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Police Department is investigating a Friday homicide near Grand Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. The victim’s information was not immediately shared because of the victim’s age and an ongoing investigation. According to a CPD release: • The department received a call from a person who said they were being shot at. While responding to the scene, officers located a black Mercedes near Upsilon Street and Hagerman Avenue that had struck a power pole. • Occupants of the Mercedes were taken to Plains Re...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University’s Department of Public Safety investigated a report of shots fired near the San Juan Village Apartments Wednesday evening, and confirmed a juvenile was injured in the incident. A release from the ENMU DPS said no students of the Portales campus were injured as a result of the incident, and the juvenile who left the scene before DPS arrived was treated for injuries that were not life threatening. The department is investigating the incident and had on Friday night identified a per...
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health announced on Friday, in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated guidance, that vaccinated individuals will no longer be required to wear masks in indoor or outdoor settings. Individuals who are not yet fully vaccinated are still required under public health orders to wear masks in public settings. Individuals are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after either their second dose of either Pfizer or Moderna or their lone dose of Johnson & Joh...
CLOVIS — Dairy Farmers of America, along with Gandy's and Dairy MAX, will hold a drive-thru milk giveaway Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Clovis. The event will run from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., or until supplies are exhausted. Attendees are limited to two gallons of milk per car, and are asked to remain in their car while milk is placed in their open trunk. The drive-thru will be set up at West Ninth and Rencher streets. “As dairy farmers, we’re proud of the role we play in feeding families, and in times like these...
CLOVIS -- A Clovis man died early Wednesday morning after he was hit by a truck on Mabry Drive, police said. The victim was identified as 34-year-old Adam Solano. Police said it happened just before 3 a.m. when they were called to the scene of a semi-tractor-trailer versus pedestrian crash. “Officers arrived on scene, locating the deceased pedestrian on the grassy area south of the roadway,” police stated in a news release. “The semi-tractor-trailer was located on Mabry Drive, a short distance away. The driver of the semi-...
A Bovina man died Tuesday in a single-vehicle crash on New Mexico 77, near the intersection of Curry Road G. A news release from Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller stated Garrett Viss, 65, of Bovina was ejected from his vehicle and died at the scene. The accident happened about noon Tuesday. According to the news release: “The investigation has determined that (Viss) was traveling west on NM 77 in a 2008 GMC pickup. In the area of Curry Road G, (a marked construction zone), the vehicle left the roadway, entered the soft s...
On this date ... 1911: Homer Jones did not shoot his business partner at Taiban as authorities had alleged. Jones' innocence was declared by Edward Gardner, the man Jones was alleged to have shot. Police arrested Jones because his boot tracks were found near the scene of Gardner's shooting. But when Gardner recovered from his wound enough to talk to authorities, he told them he and Jones were the best of friends and had never had a cross word. Gardner said Jones' arrest was "an outrage," the Roosevelt County Herald reported....
CLOVIS -- A 25-year-old Clovis man on Tuesday was convicted of trafficking illegal drugs. A Clovis jury found Roman Viveros guilty on two counts of trafficking controlled substances, second degree felonies. Judge Matt Chandler sentenced Viveros to 15 years in prison, according to a news release from District Attorney Andrea Reeb. The release stated Viveros was pulled over in a traffic stop on Oct. 18, 2018. After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, officials found a bag that contained a digital scale, multiple...
The U.S. Treasury announced Monday the state of New Mexico will receive $1.75 billion in federal pandemic relief aid, part of an effort by President Joe Biden and Congress to help governments respond to the economic fallout from COVID-19 and position the nation for recovery. Though the Treasury also released details on how the money can be spent, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and legislative leaders remain in a stalemate over which branch of government has the authority to appropriate federal funds from the American Rescue...
