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CLOVIS - Clovis police have made an arrest in the Monday afternoon shooting at a church parking lot on Main Street. Christopher Rodriguez, 36, who was earlier identified as a “person of interest” in the case, was arrested Wednesday at Motel 7 on Mabry Drive. Rodriguez was arrested on charges of robbery, aggravated battery, shooting an occupied dwelling, and shooting at or from a motor vehicle. He is also being held on an unrelated district court warrant for failure to app...
PORTALES -- Four juveniles will be charged with second-degree murder in connection with the June 5 beating of a Portales man, District Attorney Brian Stover said Wednesday afternoon. Police said five juveniles were involved in an altercation on June 5 with James Roper, 37, behind a Portales convenience store. Roper was critically injured in the incident and died Tuesday in a Lubbock hospital. Police initially arrested one juvenile and charged him with aggravated battery in the case. A second juvenile was also charged, but...
A Portales man police say was beaten by juveniles on June 5 died from his injuries on Tuesday, the victim's sister said. District Attorney Brian Stover also confirmed the passing of James Roper, 37. Court records obtained Monday through the DA’s office show Roper was beaten after a confrontation with five juveniles behind a convenience store on West Second Street in Portales. The incident began with a discussion involving a cell phone, records show. Records show one juvenile was arrested and charged with aggravated battery. H...
After a two year absence The Clovis Music Festival returns this week. Clovis Curry County Chamber of Commerce executive director Ernie Kos is looking forward to Clovis being a destination spot during the event. "We have people coming in from England, Germany, Switzerland, Canada," Kos said, "And of course from all over the USA." The festival starts with a free Christian concert Thursday night at 7 p.m. with Danny Gokey who was a top finalist in season eight of the "American...
William Drake, 14, who will be a Grady Municipal High School freshman next fall, is competing in the Olympic Weightlifting Youth Division competition in Las Vegas, Nev., at the end of this month. 2022 USA Weightlifting National Championships Week will be held from June 25-July 3 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. William's mother, Rene Drake, who is herself a professional weightlifting coach, said the "annual competition is one of nine national meets. Athletes must qualify...
I feel like I’m writing this particular column about five months early. It’s the kind of thing that I’d normally center on just before Thanksgiving. As I write, it is not Thanksgiving. It is not November. It is mid-June. We’ve not even reached the summer solstice yet. This year, that astronomic event officially occurs at 3:14 a.m. Tuesday (MDT). Set an alarm on your phone. But it certainly feels like summer. We hit 108 degrees a day ago. The plants in my yard were droopin...
We’ve been living with inflation all our lives. That’s why old folks can remember when a gallon of gas cost under a buck and bread cost about a quarter a loaf. But now it’s getting out of hand. The most recent Consumer Price Index report shows a whopping 8.6% rise in prices over the past 12 months. Prices are going up on gasoline and diesel, food and clothing, housing and household items, air travel and new and used vehicles, medical costs and recreation. Wages and salaries are also going up, but it’s not keeping up for eve...
A good many years ago, I was visiting a friend at his house and offered to move a load of freshly laundered clothing from his washer to his dryer. I asked where the lint trap was located so I could empty it before starting a new load. His response: “What’s a lint trap?” Suffice it to say, the fact that his dryer had never burst into flames would clearly qualify as a miracle. I gave him no small amount of grief for the oversight. After all, who wouldn’t know to empty a dryer li...
Everyone has their own unique personal preferences. This is probably a good thing since it makes life interesting and keeps us from all fighting over the exact same stuff. Think how boring it would be if everyone preferred identical things. Variety is the spice of life. As long as everyone remembers their preferences are only preferences, not a matter of one being right and the other being wrong, there’s no problem. It’s only when people try to impose their preferences on eve...
Here is the schedule of events for this week’s Draggin’ Main 2022 and The Clovis Music Festival. Tonight and Thursday • 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the “Classic Drive-in Tour.” Tonight, Twin Cronnies Drive-in, 709 Commerce Way Thursday, Weinerschnitzel at the corner of 13th and Main streets. Thursday • 7 p.m. Free Danny Gokey concert at Legacy Church, Llano Estacado Blvd. and Norris St., seating is limited. Last day to buy advance tickets for .38 Special (Friday concert) at $10 less than at the door. Friday • 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. “Hitt...
The same day an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, two students were found with guns at Albuquerque-area schools. The boy who allegedly brought a handgun to Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho on May 24 was arrested, booked into the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center and the incident was summarily cloaked in secrecy. The 14-year-old boy who allegedly brought a gun fitted with an extended magazine filled with 20 hollow-point bullets to Volcano Vista High...
This Sunday the entire community is invited to celebrate Juneteenth Freedom Day, which commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth Freedom Day is celebrated on June 19th every year and became a federal holiday in 2021, said Alisia Johnson, spokeswoman for MECA Therapies LLC Early Intervention, a sponsor of the event that will bring many area agencies to Potter Park at 601 Upsilon Street in Clovis from 9 am to 4 pm. The event is free and open to the public. “Juneteenth (short for “June Nin...
On this date … 1952: Buck Rutherford had won the most prize money in the Beutler Brothers rodeo in Clovis, but he was not present to collect his winnings. That’s because he was competing in a rodeo in California when the Clovis competition ended. Rutherford, fourth in the world’s champion cowboy title race for 1951, took first place in bareback bronc riding and steer wrestling in Clovis before heading west. Another big winner in the weekend event: Roy Lewis of House won the calf-roping title with a time of 29.2 seconds for t...
PORTALES — A group of Roosevelt County citizens, most noting their Republican party affiliation, plan on auditing county ballots for the 2020 presidential election next Wednesday. The matter came up during the “public requests” portion of Monday’s Roosevelt County Commission meeting. Person after person came to the speaker’s podium at the session to tell commissioners of the lack of confidence that they and their friends have in voting in New Mexico. Speakers praised the work of Roosevelt County Clerk Mandi Park and count...
