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CLOVIS — With fresh staples in her skull and stitches in her hand, Savanah Sena said Tuesday that she had been determined to fight the armed men posing as police that broke into her home and place of business the day before. “I was pissed off,” Sena said. “And I was afraid, and I wasn’t going to let them come into my house and injure me and my girlfriend. I wasn’t going to let them get us on our hands and knees and beg. I had to fight.” It had only been two months since Sena started the smoke shop and art gallery, “Dir...
10 years ago today: Sept. 4, 1964: A bonfire, a football game and a snake dance how could life be better? Click Here to Download...
PORTALES — If history’s any indication, the Portales Rams will have their fourth 3-0 start in their last five seasons. While the history is strongly in Portales’ favor when it comes to West Las Vegas — 21 wins in 22 tries, the lone mark a game the Rams won and forfeited later for using an ineligible player — none of it’s really coming to Greyhound Stadium on Friday. Or, as succinctly put by Portales coach Jaime Ramirez, “Last year’s last year.” The Rams, 36-0 winners over...
CLOVIS — OK, so the Clovis High football team is 2-0. Great for the Wildcats. Beats 1-1 or 0-2. But, the previous four Wildcat teams were able to accomplish the same 2-0 start. 3-0, now that’s been a little trickier. Not since 2015 has Clovis reeled off three straight wins to start the season. That year the ’Cats beat Goddard, Cibola and Atrisco Heritage Academy by a combined score of 112-26. Since then, Rio Rancho has been a brick wall between the Wildcats and 3-0. In Week...
PORTALES — It’s good for a football team to have time to work things out, wrap their minds around schemes and playbooks, Xs and Os. Pound the sleds, run the sprints. Eastern New Mexico has had that time. But the Greyhounds are ready to start their season. And they will, with a scheduled 6 p.m. kickoff Saturday (KSEL 105.9 FM) at Greyhound Stadium against Missouri Science & Technology. The Hounds’ feelings about finally facing Week 1 can be summed up in two words. Hoo. Ray. “We’ve been practicing all spring, all summer,...
ODESSA — A man who killed seven people and injured 24 others in a wild shooting spree across Odessa on Saturday called both 911 and the FBI national tip line prior to the shootings. Odessa Police Chief Mike Gerke during a Monday news conference said Seth Ator, 36, had a dispute with his employer, Journey Oilfield Services, and that both Ator and someone from the company called 911. Company officials said he had items that belonged to them while Ator said they were trying to detain him. Gerke said Ator went to work on S...
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will be required to present future loan requests to the Curry County Board of Commissioners for approval as part of the board’s regularly scheduled meetings. The board passed Resolution #2019-69 during its Tuesday morning meeting, repealing Resolution #2016-34, which previously gave the ENMWUA authority to act on the collective board’s behalf regarding loans instead of seeking approval from each individual member. According to Chairman Chet Spear, this decision is in line wit...
CLOVIS — The Clovis Community College Board of Trustees will receive an update on the college’s presidential search during their regular board meeting this morning. The 9 a.m. meeting in Room 512 of the college is just over a week before the timeline expectation of the 13-person selection committee announcing five finalists to replace Becky Rowley. Rowley left this summer to take the same position at Santa Fe Community College. The board contracted the Association of Community College Trustees to do a nationwide search. The...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Adam Edwards, 22, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Jake Lopez, 46, probation violation • Cesar Monzon, 57, probation violation • Ceazar Porter, 20, failure to appear on a felony charge • Kenneth Nash, 33, failure to pay fines • Jeremy McDonald, 30, failure to pay fines • Shalone Ruffin, 38, battery against a household member, false imprisonment • Victor Armijo, 48, driving while license suspended or revoked, failure to obey...
Firearms and alcohol have always been a dangerous mix. Nowhere is that more evident than in the life and death of Don Juan Patrón. He was widely considered to be one of New Mexico’s most educated and popular Hispanics of his time. I had never heard of him until Richard Chavez, knower of all things PDL — as in Puerto de Luna, an agricultural community along the Pecos River in Guadalupe County — loaned me a book about Patrón. Chavez was born and raised in Puerto de Luna and knows where all the PDL bodies are buried, so to spea...
When interim Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus released video from cameras worn by officers involved in yet another fatal shooting last month, he made clear how unusual it was that the video was public within 24 hours of the incident. “I would hope that we don’t expect this in the future,” Kraus said. Sorry, Chief, but we do. We applaud Kraus and his commanders for swiftly addressing rumors about the shooting of Amari Malone. Fort Worth officers have shot six people, five fatally, since June 1, and when the person kille...
I admit it: I’ve always been a bit of a space geek. Or, would that be “space nerd?” Whatever the term, I love space flight, and am especially excited to see it beginning to escape the stagnant, innovation-crushing monopoly of government. I’ve enjoyed watching the recent rocket launches and the tests of the experimental vehicles. I am pulling for humans to walk on Mars in my lifetime; thinking it’s looking more likely all the time. I resent government agencies pretendin...
PORTALES — Roosevelt General Hospital was profitable last financial year. But with recent litigation, it’s facing a more complicated tax process moving forward with some added expenses. The RGH Board of Trustees reviewed its 2018-2019 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, during its monthly meeting on Tuesday. RGH had a positive operating cost of $400,000 before receiving its yearly gross receipt tax (GRT) funds and a total net income of $1.9 million after receiving the annual funds, officials said. GRT is collected on mos...
On this date ... 1969: The Yucca Drive-In movie theater offered two choices, beginning at dark: John Wayne and Katharine Ross starring in “Hellfighters” and Andy Griffith starring in “Angel in my Pocket.” Other options for local movie goers included Charlton Heston and Jessica Walter in “Number One,” at the State theater, and Elvis Presley in “Charro!,” at the La Fonda. After the movie, the Prince Lounge reminded area residents that Ray Roberts had recently returned from a tour of the Far East and was appearing night...
PORTALES — More than a year after the shooting death of Dylan Nutter in Portales, police said they had no developments to report on the ongoing investigation. Nutter, 20, was shot dead July 19, 2018, in a Portales residence. More than three weeks later there were no charges or arrests in the investigation, and officials with the 9th Judicial Major Crimes Unit offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Portales Police Dept. Lt. Chris Williams told The News in February that investigators ...
Having heard about a unique learning experience at Sandia Elementary, I dropped by the school to speak with fourth-grade teachers Gina Rubio and Faith Calvin. Partially as a get-acquainted activity, partially as a team-building activity, teachers combined their classes the first week of school to try a powerful learning activity. Students were divided into about 10 teams with four or five students each. Each group was given 20 pieces of uncooked spaghetti, one marshmallow,...
CLOVIS — A wrongful death lawsuit two years in progress against the city of Clovis is scheduled for a five-day jury trial late next summer. Attorney Kimberly Brusuelas told The News in July that her client, Shawnita Jones, was hoping for a resolution before trial. The civil suit was filed in early 2018 in connection with the drowning incident July 4, 2017, at the Hillcrest Park pond where Gevion Lewis and his friends had been playing on the holiday afternoon. Emergency responders pulled Lewis from the waters within minutes o...
CLOVIS — Three suspects in the armed robbery last month of an elderly woman outside a Clovis church were still at large on Tuesday, officials said. Arrest warrants were issued Aug. 21 on Jamie Vega (AKA Jamie Cadena), 36, and Cherry Anaya, 43, on charges of armed robbery, conspiracy, theft of identity, fraud and violations of the Remote Financial Services Act. Officials allege the pair held at gunpoint and robbed the purse from an 88-year old woman who had arrived early for Sunday school Aug. 18 at Parkland Baptist Church. T...
Today • Clovis Community College Board of Trustees — 8 a.m., CCC, 417 Schepps Blvd., Room 512, Clovis. Information: 575-769-4001 Thursday • Roosevelt County Commission — 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 • Clovis City Commission — 5:15 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Saturday • Eastern New Mexico University Regents summer work session — 9 a.m., Regents Room, ENMU Administration...
PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents are gathering for a work session Saturday morning. No action items are on the agenda for the 9 a.m. meeting at the regents room in the college’s administration building. The regents will receive updates on three items, two from ENMU system Chancellor Jeff Elwell and one from Roswell branch President Shawn Powell. Elwell will discuss the progress of the university’s liquor license efforts. The goal is to have the ability to serve alcoholic beverages at banqu...
Editor's note: Marlowe J. Churchill's family secrets have been largely buried since 1926. His search for truth brought him to Parmer County in 2017 and he recently completed a manuscript detailing the violent death of his great aunt and her eight children, who are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery south of Farwell. This is the third of a three-part series that began with an introduction on Aug. 28. It must have been a dramatic morning in the courtroom as George Hassell's trial...
CLOVIS — Organizers of an inaugural food festival are attempting to celebrate local food trucks next month at Hillcrest Park. They’re also hoping they’ll be able to feature a beer garden. A variance for the sale of alcohol at Hillcrest Park is one of just two new business items at Thursday evening’s Clovis City Commission meeting. The 575 Foodie Fest is scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 19 at the park, and organizer Jenni Hanson hopes the commission will provide a variance. Hanson said her family is on its second assignm...
Elida is coming off one of its biggest wins ever. Texico is coming off a loss, but a close one against a reigning state champion. Melrose is coming off a bye week, Farwell off a lopsided loss. Floyd just wants to finally play some darn football. Last Saturday, Elida routed defending state six-man champion Animas, 62-12. Texico was leading defending 2A champ Dexter late in the fourth quarter before the Demons rallied near the end. Melrose hasn’t played since opening with a 54-point win of Dulce nearly two weeks ago. And F...
CLOVIS — Basketball has taken Jaye Crockett from Clovis, to Lubbock, to pretty much the rest of the world. He hopes it will let him for another 10 years. The 2010 Clovis High and 2014 Texas Tech graduate is on his sixth season of professional hoops overseas. This year takes him to Lebanon. Crockett, the No. 2 scorer in Clovis history, spoke with The News before leaving Clovis for the season. Where are you playing this season? Anibal Zahle. (Zahle is) the city, that’s the team name we go by. It’s part of First League in Leban...
• Clovis Municipal Schools is selling a family pass for the 2019-20 athletic year. The $130 pass will be valid for two parents and three schoolchildren for admission to any home game for any team in the Clovis district from middle school to high school, with the exception of Clovis High School football games and playoff games in any sport. Passes are available at the CHS athletic office. Information: 575-769-4350, ext. 1023. • The Roosevelt General Hospital Foundation is hosting its fifth annaul skeet shoot to benefit RGH...
