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CLOVIS — Police on Friday were searching for a 31-year-old Clovis man accused in a domestic incident that left a child critically injured. Jackie Lee Cubit Jr. is accused of throwing a glass jar at an 11-month girl and her mother. The child was struck in the head by the jar, according to a news release from police Capt. Roman Romero. "The infant was bleeding profusely from wounds she had received," when police arrived, the release said. The unnamed child was initially taken t...
On this date ... 1982: Under the direction of Wayne Anderson, the Clovis High School Choir qualified more students for the New Mexico All-State Choir than any other school in New Mexico. Thirty-eight CHS singers earned the right to travel to Albuquerque for two days of intense rehearsals with the top student singers from around New Mexico. The experience was capped with a concert at Popejoy Hall on the campus of the University of New Mexico. It was CHS' second year to lead...
FARWELL — Three area veterans are working to give fellow veterans a big help — with a tiny home. The Beacon of Light Ministry in Farwell is building the small homes for homeless or disabled veterans. Their plan is to give the homes away. They started the first one a month ago. An Air Force veteran himself, Randy Gomez, the pastor at Beacon of Light Church and leader of the ministry, said he first became interested in providing homes to veterans when he heard the story of a N...
RICHARDSON, Texas — Senior Kamal Cass repeated as the Lone Star Conference's offensive back of the year, and 17 Eastern New Mexico University football players received recognition Friday for Lone Star Conference awards. Cass, who set a new school career rushing record with 4,301 yards, rushed for a conference-high 1,443 yards, nearly double the total of runnerup Adrian Seales of Midwestern State. The pair received the two first-team spots at running back, where they were j...
PORTALES — The postseason is certainly the best time to be playing your best football of the year, and the defending 4A state champion Portales Rams are proving just that. The Rams drubbed the Taos Tigers in Friday's 4A quarterfinal, 41-11, to advance to next week's semifinal. For Portales (10-1) it was all about big plays on both sides of the football. The Rams had three first-quarter touchdowns that all covered at least 35 yards in length, while the Ram defense forced f...
TATUM — Melrose’s football team is one win away from its fourth straight eight-man championship. The top-seeded Buffaloes earned the right to play for another one by trouncing fourth-seeded Tatum 56-6 on the road Friday night. Melrose will vie for the title at second-seeded Mountainair next Saturday, with kickoff time slated for 1 p.m. The Buffaloes head into that climactic game having scored 114 points in the eight-man playoffs so far. Head coach Dickie Roybal said after last week’s 58-0 shellacking of Cloudcroft that he tho...
ALBUQUERQUE — Even when the Clovis Wildcats were off to a 3-1 start, they were looking in frustration at turnovers and penalties. The same hiccups struck Clovis again, as the Wildcat season ended Friday with a 45-7 loss to top-seeded Manzano at F.M. Wilson Stadium. Manzano (11-0) moves on to a semifinal against Las Cruces. The fourth-seeded Bulldawgs defeated Rio Rancho 28-10. The Wildcats (6-6) had four turnovers and penalties at costly times. “It’s tough to be in a ballgame against the No. 1 team in the state with penal...
MONMOUTH, Ore. — Trevor Hill scored five of his game-high 35 in overtime, and Dixie State handed Eastern New Mexico its first loss, 99-89, to open the Western Oregon/Doubletree by Hilton D2 Shootout. The loss offset a career-high 25 points for Zach Parker, and dropped the Hounds to 2-1 on the early season. “Tonight’s game was a tough one to swallow,” ENMU Head Coach Tres Segler said. “We had a chance to win it at the end of regulation, and those are always hard when they don’t go your way. We fought ourselves a little toni...
FARWELL — The Farwell football team had to make not one, but three comebacks before winning Thursday’s Texas Class 2A Division II football playoff game against Roscoe 39-32, helped out by 329 rushing yards and five touchdowns from Miguel Vasquez. The Steers (6-4) will face Wellington Friday in a neutral-site game to be determined. The Steers trailed 14-7, 20-14 and 26-20, but only went ahead for good after bouncing back from the last of those deficits, which they had faced at halftime. Farwell began well enough, grabbing a 7...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Thursday through Friday: Clovis • David Rodgers, 38, felony possession of a controlled substance, tampering with evidence, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while license suspended or revoked, concealing identity, failure to register vehicle, no proof of insurance • Joshua Hutson, 36, probation violation, residential burglary, larceny • Stephen Whittenberg, 51, failure to comply with specific requirements, driving under the influence of liquor, possession of marij...
ALBUQUERQUE — A Clovis man on Friday pleaded guilty to violating the federal firearms laws by possessing an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release. Alan William Weber, 37, of Clovis, entered the plea in federal court in Albuquerque. Weber was arrested on Feb. 23 when he pointed a firearm at an emergency responder following a call for service at Weber’s residence, according to a criminal complaint. Weber was charged with being a person previously convicted of a misdemeanor dom...
Tuesday • Water Policy Advisory Committee/Southwest Cheese Tour — 8:30 a.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Cultural and Ethnic Affairs Committee — Noon at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Friends of the Library — 11:30 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-763-9687 Wednesday • Public Works Committee — 8:30 a.m. at city hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 This calendar is a daily listing of area public meetings. To place an item on the calendar, call the newsroom at 575...
Today • Friends of Music POPs Concert — 7 p.m. in the Campus Union Ballroom, Eastern New Mexico University. Tickets: $30 general, $20 active military and family. Information: 575-562-2377 • Family game day — 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-763-9687 • Hartley House Festival of Trees — 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at Traci’s Greenhouse. All proceeds go the Hartley House. Information: 575-762-0050 • Friends of Library book sale — 8 a.m.-noon. $1 per bag of books. Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B, Po...
PARMER COUNTY — Preliminary autopsy results show a local teenager found buried in a cotton module on Wednesday night died from asphyxiation, Parmer County Sheriff Randy Geries said on Friday. Geries said the death appears to be accidental and is “not a criminal matter at this time.” The 15-year-old Bailey County boy appears to have climbed unnoticed into a cotton module builder. The sheriff declined to speculate on reasons he may have been inside. Geries said he would not release the teen’s name on advice of the county attorn...
