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AUSTIN, Texas - State Sen. Kel Seliger of Amarillo became the first Republican on Friday to urge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session for lawmakers in wake of the Uvalde school massacre. In a tweet, Seliger said the Legislature should reconvene "until we do SOMETHING The FBI or DPS BELIEVE will lessen the chance of the next Uvalde Tragedy." He offered no specific policy proposals. Seliger isn't seeking reelection this year, so he won't be back for the next...
A federal forestry agency is claiming responsibility for igniting both of the blazes that merged to become the historic wildfire burning in northern New Mexico. The cause of the Calf Canyon wildfire in April was a prescribed pile burn the U.S. Forest Service lit in January, the agency's own investigators announced Friday morning. They concluded the Calf Canyon Fire "was caused by a pile burn holdover from January that remained dormant under the surface through three winter...
WASHINGTON — House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy says a harmful precedent would be set if he and four other Republicans complied with their subpoenas to testify from the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. “For House Republican leaders to agree to participate in this political stunt would change the House forever,” McCarthy and fellow House Republican Jim Jordan insist in a Wall Street Journal guest editorial. A committee spokesman, Tim Mulvey, had no response. The column, posted Thurs...
Portales Community Services Center 575-356-8576, ext. 24 Monday: Closed for Memorial Day. Tuesday: Chili dog, potato wedges, carrots, white cake with frosting. Wednesday: Spaghetti with meat sauce, broccoli and carrots, garlic bread, apricots. Thursday: Chicken tenders with low-salt gravy, mixed vegetables, wheat bread, pears. Friday: Swiss steak, baked potato, green beans, white bread, applesauce cake....
On this date ... 1972: A rancher 5 miles north of Melrose lost 58 head of cattle in a Sunday night storm. “There’s no way to figure the cost of this to me,” Deon Dodd said as he replaced fencing removed to allow trucks to haul carcasses away. He estimated the animals’ value at $10,000 “at the least.” The cost of replacing the herd was unknown. Dodd told a reporter the cattle were near a lake on his property when they were likely killed by lightning “either while they stood bunched together in water around the lake or while...
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. “A Light Beyond the Trenches ” by Alan Hlad. April 1916: Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red...
