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  • Baker Mayfield: Bullseye for critics again

    Marla Ridenour, Akron Beacon Journal|Updated Aug 20, 2019

    BEREA, Ohio - Baker Mayfield's brash comments, this time in regards to Giants quarterback Daniel Jones in a GQ.com article, put him back in the critics' crosshairs Tuesday. The online story might make the Browns' road game against the Giants in 2020 a lot more interesting. But Browns coach Freddie Kitchens didn't seem worried that Mayfield has a bullseye on his back because of such remarks. "We don't care. We don't care," Kitchens said. "It is already on there, so it does not...

  • Clovis police seek help in church robbery

    The Staff of The News|Updated Aug 19, 2019

    CLOVIS - Police on Monday requested public assistance in locating two suspects in the armed robbery Sunday morning of an elderly woman in a church parking lot. The incident happened around 8:50 a.m., when "an 88 year old female was robbed at gun point in the parking lot of Parkland Baptist Church by two white females," according to a news release from Clovis Police Dept. Lt. Trevor Thron. Police did not say if the woman robbed was injured, but noted the "suspects stole the...

  • Some pig controversy

    David Grieder - Staff|Updated Aug 17, 2019

    CLOVIS - Timo Rosenthal wanted to try the "Bacon King" sandwich his rookie coworker had recommended. Instead, he encountered what he called "one of the darkest moments" of his law-enforcement career. It is by now the pig doodle heard 'round the nation - a viral social media post summarizing Clovis Police Officer Rosenthal's experience at the Prince Street Burger King. "When you order food in uniform," Rosenthal wrote on his Facebook caption below a photo of a cartoon pig face...

  • Government failed in Epstein case

    Rich Lowry|Updated Aug 17, 2019

    The Jeffrey Epstein case establishes beyond a doubt that if you’re a sexual predator, it pays to be a rich and connected sexual predator. Epstein, now dead of an apparent suicide before his accusers had their day in court, worked the system and benefited from advantages and breaks unimaginable to anyone who didn’t jet around with influential friends. The multimillionaire financier who lived in Palm Beach, Fla., and Manhattan, N.Y., used his resources to build a network of sex...

  • Another viewpoint: NM Lottery CEO's pay hike excessive

    Updated Aug 17, 2019

    The New Mexico Lottery Authority recently voted to raise Lottery Chief Executive Officer David Barden’s salary by 26%. It goes from $174,142 to $220,000. That is twice as much as the governor of New Mexico is paid. It is more than twice what the state attorney general is paid. It is significantly more than the chief justice of the Supreme Court and state cabinet secretaries are paid. As a spokesman for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham put it: “What is the rationale” for this enormous raise? “Is the lottery doing a 26% better job o...