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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — The Rams couldn’t hang on in regulation to beat Goddard for their third-straight win, but overtime proved to be what they needed to improve to 3-2 on the year. Tyrese Dawson, Jase Wallace, Braden Bridges and Rico Diaz all scored in double figures on the night, with each player notching at least 14 points apiece. Goddard (4-5) trailed Portales (3-2), 63-60 in the closing seconds. The Rockets’ Jonah Chavez, however, nailed a corner 3-pointer to send the game into overtime. But, Portales proved to be too strong in th...
LAS CRUCES — Zach Lofton scored 29 points and New Mexico State won its second straight game over an in-state rival, handily beating Division II Eastern New Mexico, 84-62 on Tuesday night. The Aggies had a five-game win streak snapped by San Diego, but now have posted wins over New Mexico as well as the Greyhounds. New Mexico State (8-2) closed the first half on a 17-8 run highlighted by five points each from Lofton and Shunn Buchanan. The Aggies will play their next eight games on the road, including three in Honolulu at t...
CLOVIS - From the time Clovis forward Madison Tolbert won the opening tipoff, the Lady Wildcats were in control of Tuesday night's game against Lubbock at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. The Lady 'Cats led from Teya Morris' early trey until the game-ending buzzer sounded, earning a 42-27 win, their second in a row. And that gave Clovis a 5-3 record, pretty good for a team that went 10-18 last winter. "We're already at the halfway point of how many games we won last year," Lady...
PORTALES - Fresh off of winning the Santa Fe Capital City Tournament last weekend, the Portales Rams girls basketball team came in with a tough task against previously-undefeated West Las Vegas. Portales avoided any letdown, and stayed perfect with a 62-42 victory over the Dons Tuesday. "I told the girls before the game that we got to set the tone with our defense and rebounding," Rams coach Wade Fraze said. "Those are constants and I felt like they did that. The longer the...
TEXICO — A Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railway train collided with a silver Kia about 7:30 Tuesday night behind the Stripes convenience store in Texico. Texico Police Chief Doug Bowman said no one was injured in the incident. The woman driving the Kia was being booked into the Curry County Adult Detention Center for drunken driving, Bowman said. She provided a Clovis address, but Bowman said she was known to be living in Texico. Crews were sweeping up the scene and the car was being hauled away by 8:45 p....
AMARILLO — A man arrested four years ago in Roosevelt County was sentenced last week to 45 years in prison on the sex crime charges for which he was extradited back to Texas. David Blake Turner, 46, was arrested Aug. 7, 2013, in Roosevelt County on a fugitive warrant from Randall County, Texas, where he was charged with sex abuse of a child, continuous, of a victim under the age of 14, a first-degree felony. A jury last week found him guilty on two counts of the same charge following a trial of five days, said Randall County...
Today’s family in need: This father is doing his best to support his family in the face of mental illness. When Salvation Army Lt. Kelly Berggren first met this man, he thought, “Why can’t he get a job?” After the two built a relationship, the man revealed he suffers from mental illness and has suicidal tendencies. “The family has three children and they don’t have the money for Christmas presents,” Berggren said, adding that the father is “following doctors’ orders and doing the right things.” About the Empty Stocking Fund...
On this date ... 1987: Wayne Crume, a self-described "old cowboy from Kenna," made the front page of the Clovis News-Journal with a photo and feature headlined, "Cowboy croons with $38 guitar, plenty of smiles." Crume was a regular fixture at the Tastee Freez restaurant in Portales, where he spent two hours each Saturday night playing cowboy songs and honky-tonk classics on his guitar, an upright piano, and a "mouth organ." When feature writer D'Lyn Ford visited Crume on the j...
Booked The following were booked into local jails through Tuesday: Clovis • Robert Baker, 25, non-residential burglary, criminal trespass, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Joseph Sandoval-Gallegos, 44, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, failure to appear on a felony charge • Benny Torres, 34, failure to pay fines • Thomas Golden, 28, sexual exploitation of children (possession) • James Devenport, 26, shoplifting, probation violation, failure to pay fines • Fabian Mondragon, 27, probation v...
PORTALES — A Portales attorney on Tuesday filed a civil lawsuit against Roosevelt County Sheriff Malin Parker and the Roosevelt County Commission, citing civil rights violations in a 2016 pursuit that left one woman dead. The complaint — filed by attorney Eric Dixon on behalf of Elisa Hernandez, mother of the late Irisema Hernandez, 33 — accuses Parker of negligence, aggravated assault and battery, vicarious liability, and three other counts in an August 2016 pursuit. Irisema Hernandez was killed after her friend Eduardo Lope...
PORTALES — The Portales Junior High School cafeteria is set to receive renovations in 2018 which, according to its designers, will greatly increase functionality and safety for students. The Portales Municipal Schools Board of Education on Monday approved the design phase of the project, presented by Project Manager Michael Rael of construction firm Nick Griego and Sons and Tina Reames, owner of Cherry/See/Reames Architects. Reames told the council several architectural improvements would be made, including a covered c...
Today • Economic Incentive Board — 7:30 a.m. in assembly room at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 • Portales MainStreet Board — 5:30 p.m. at the Yam Theatre, Portales. Information: 575-226-3783 • Planning and Zoning — 3 p.m. at City Hall, Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 Thursday • Clovis MainStreet Committee — 8:15 a.m. at 418 Main St. Information: 575-769-7828 • Curry County Health Council — 1 p.m. at administration complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6009 Friday • ENMU Board of Regents — 9:...
CLOVIS - This year Curry County employees decided to spread the Christmas spirit outside the office. Instead of exchanging gifts among themselves, on Tuesday members of Curry County administration and finance departments and grant employees took that money and instead donated items to The Hartley House, a non-profit organization that provides services for victims of domestic violence. The donations included clothes, toys, sports equipment and books. Hartley House Executive...
Today • Christmas Nites at the Zoo — 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at Hillcrest Park Zoo. Admission: Free. Information: 575-769-7828 • Stitch Addicts — 6:30 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Crochet lesson: UFO work day. Information: 575-769-7840 • Toddler Time — 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 Thursday • Pre-K story hour— 10 a.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 • Colour Creators — 10 a.m., 6 p.m. at Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7840 • Medicaid Q&A, enr...
To get the most out of this holiday season, and to finish out 2017 on a high note, I recommend avoiding outrage fatigue. What is outrage fatigue? It’s the exhaustion, cynicism, apathy, and hopelessness that comes from exposure to too many outrageous crises at once. Whether your outrage is over your belief that President Trump has been caught plotting with Russians, yet faces no consequences, or from your belief that the politically motivated investigators probing him are s...
Hillary Clinton found herself in trouble when it became known that she chose to use an unsecured server to transmit and receive classified information while she was secretary of state, rather than the normal secure system provided to cabinet secretaries. This is a violation of law. Donald Trump came under scrutiny when it became clear to one and all that he would win the Republican nomination for president of the United States. This is not a violation of law, but it served to...
A new study by the McKinsey Global Institute about the potential of automation should serve as a stark warning to all world leaders that they must prepare for what may well be the biggest societal and economic upheaval in our lifetime. The report builds off this core finding: In about 60 percent of occupations, at least one-third of job tasks could be automated and performed much more cheaply by robots or algorithms. As a result, McKinsey estimated that at a best guess 400 million people worldwide would need to change their...
