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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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FRIONA — A 22-year-old Clovis man was killed in a crash Thursday afternoon near Friona, officials said. Benjamin Arguello was leaving Cargill Meat Solutions when he "failed to yield right of way and entered the eastbound lanes of U.S. 60 in the path" of a tractor-trailer rig, according to a report from the Texas Department of Public Safety. The truck driver, Jerry Varnell of Portales, was unable to avoid the collision, the report shows. Officials said Arguello died at the scene. Varnell was not injured. The wreck happened a...
CLOVIS — The New Mexico State Police on Thursday identified the police officer who discharged a weapon during a July 6 standoff. Officer Jesus Sarabia has been with the Clovis Police Department for three years. Sarabia was back on full duty June 10, after spending three days on administrative duty. He discharged his weapon, officials said, in response to Damon Smith, 42, brandishing a weapon during a two-hour standoff that began around 5 p.m. July 6. Police were called to a report of a domestic disturbance with shots fired o... Full story
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday - Monday: Clovis • Cristy Chevalier, 28, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Darrin James, 35, criminal damage to the property of a household member • Marcos Gibson, 19, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle • Steven Darnell, 61, criminal trespass • Adrian Estrada, 35, criminal damage to property, embezzlement • Tyler Davis, 21, possession of a controlled substance • Joey Plasencio, 38, probation violation • Ramon Aragon, 23, failure to appear on a fel...
How’s this for the setting for a series of mystery novels? It’s 12th-century England. Following a long career as a soldier and later as a ship’s captain, a short but sturdy Welshman, who still rolls a bit when he walks as if he were still at sea, has “taken the cowl.” Kind and wise, he has taken vows as a monk in a Benedictine monastery where he is in charge of the “herbarium,” growing all sorts of herbs and vegetables from which he blends healing ointments and medicines. Of...
CLOVIS - Fire crews battled a structure fire Sunday afternoon at 13th and Mitchell streets, with minor heat exhaustion to two firefighters but no other injuries reported. The fire remains under investigation, said Clovis Fire Chief Mike Nolen, and the investigation as to its cause has been turned over to the state fire marshal. That's "because of the size of the building, the type of previous occupancy - it is a high-value building - and if we can't get right in there and...
CLOVIS - Marcos Urban Jr. "lived for community service" and was en route Friday morning to a funeral in Portales at the time of his fatal collision south of Cannon Air Force Base. Urban Jr., 64, was transported to Plains Regional Medical Center with critical injuries and died at the hospital soon after a head-on collision Friday morning on State Road 467. Urban Jr. was driving southbound on SR467 in a 1996 Cadillac and was struck when Octavio Vasquez, 28, of Clovis, attempted...
President Trump makes people crazy. Or maybe he magnifies the crazy already present in people. It’s like a superpower. His supporters seem desperate to defend and support just about anything he does; even things they would have opposed had any other president done them — his anti-gun edicts, for example. At the same time, his detractors foam at the mouth over every little thing he does; always interpreting them in the most negative way possible. It’s obvious he knows this and...
We are about a year away from legalizing recreational marijuana in New Mexico. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has already set the wheels in motion for its passage at the Roundhouse next year, and if the state is ready with the regulations, it could conceivably become legal on July 1, when a lot of new laws take effect. That’s my prediction — legal pot will be selling in New Mexico by this time next year. Whether legalized marijuana will hit the streets next year or the year after, it’s coming, and probably sooner rather than...
