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Jerry Casiano Police are looking for two persons of interest regarding the Saturday homicide of 54-year-old Elizabeth McAdams in her home on Lea Street, according to a Clovis Police Department press release. Police said Jerry Casiano, 27, and Veronica Galvan, 32, may have information about the homicide. Police do not believe they killed the victim. McAdams’ throat was slashed, according to police. Clovis Police Capt. Patrick Whitney said police have identified a suspect they believe is responsible for the city’s third hom...
Police are looking for two persons of interest regarding the Saturday homicide of 54-year-old Elizabeth McAdams in her home on Lea Street, according to a Clovis Police Department press release. Police said Jerry Casiano, 27, and Veronica Galvan, 32, may have information about the homicide. Police do not believe they killed the victim. McAdams’ throat was slashed, according to police. Clovis Police Capt. Patrick Whitney said police have identified a suspect they believe is responsible for the city’s third homicide in 2008 but... Full story
HOLLYWOOD – God bless America, and how’s everybody? • The Dallas Cowboys played their last game in Texas Stadium Saturday after four decades. What a cast of massive egos. Last week when the Iraqi journalist threw two shoes at President Bush, Terrell Owens complained that he was wide open on both plays. • Entourage star Jeremy Piven walked off his Broadway play Wednesday, infuriating producers. He said he has high levels of mercury in his body from eating too much sushi. He’s decided to come back to L.A. for... Full story
Lori Howard A 40-year-old Clovis woman has been charged with embezzling more than $145,000 in tornado relief funds, according to a press release Monday from the district attorney’s office. Lori Howard, a former project manager for Eastern Plains Council of Government, is charged with 34 counts of fraud, 24 counts of identity theft and 15 counts of forgery, according to the release. She was arrested Friday. Howard oversaw a program that provided funding from the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority for rent and temporary hous... Full story
A 40-year-old Clovis woman has been charged with embezzling more than $145,000 in tornado relief funds, according to a press release Monday from the district attorney’s office. Lori Howard, a former project manager for Eastern Plains Council of Government, is charged with 34 counts of fraud, 24 counts of identity theft and 15 counts of forgery, according to the release. She was arrested Friday. Howard oversaw a program that provided funding from the New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority for rent and temporary housing to v... Full story
Today’s focus: Ms. B Household members: 5 Children: 4 Special circumstances: “Ms. B” is unemployed. Her holiday hopes: For her children to have a merry Christmas. Clothing needs: Boys shirts sizes large. Boys pants sizes 10. Boys shoe sizes 1 1/2. Girls shirts sizes medium. Girls pants sizes 8. Girls shoe sizes 12. Toys list: Video games, Transformers and horses. The Empty Stocking Fund is a joint effort of the Salvation Army and Freedom New Mexico. Recipients receive gifts and clothes for their children and some may recei...
International animal supplement manufacturer Alltech has begun limited production in its Curry County facility, according to company officials. The Nicholasville, Ky.-based company’s 240-acre facility is located east of Clovis along Curry Road 10. The company upgraded the former Superior Grain Sugar Refining plant to produce its Yea-Saac Farm Pak. The supplement includes yeast cultures to increase milk production in dairy cattle and is customized to the needs of the farmer, according to Deirdre Lyons, Alltech director of c...
Freedom New Mexico Apparently a perverse understanding of the meaning of the season got to President Bush as Uncle Santa announced a $13.4 billion loan (and another $4 billion likely early next year) to U.S. automakers General Motors and Chrysler. Even as most Americans are cutting back on the amount of Christmas shopping they’re putting on plastic this year, the administration seems to cherish the childish notion that it can be Santa Claus. With our money, of course — or through making our money worth less in the near...
Some lessons are learned at great expense. For decades, editorialists, pundits and other commentators have implored us to stop the Christmas commercialism. They said people focus on purchasing goodies instead of the spirituality of Christmas. The relentless blather went on, year after year, even in the midst of reports on how good or bad were holiday retail sales. This hypocrisy could be hidden from the consciousness of a great many people for a good while, but now it is no longer possible to disguise it. Fact is, what is...
USDA opens public comment to regulation changes The U.S. Department of Agriculture started accepting public comment Monday on a new regulation changing adjusted gross income qualifications for disaster and commodity programs, according to a USDA press release. Changes include reducing qualifications for disaster and commodity programs from an adjusted gross income of $2.5 million to a three-year average non-farm adjusted gross income of $500,000, according to the release. Public comments must be submitted to the department...
PNT Staff Reports USDA accepting public comment on regulation The U.S. Department of Agriculture started accepting public comment Monday on a new regulation changing adjusted gross income qualifications for disaster and commodity programs, according to a USDA press release. Changes include reducing qualifications for disaster and commodity programs from an adjusted gross income of $2.5 million to a three-year average non-farm adjusted gross income of $500,000, according to the release. Public comments must be submitted to...
Freedom New Mexico Police arrested a 24-year-old Clovis man on Monday in connection with a 2004 fire at the Clovis Bender Chevrolet Dealership, according to a press release from the Clovis Police Department. Aaron Quinones is charged with breaking into the dealership to steal money from a safe, starting a fire that caused $1.5 million in damages, and stealing a vehicle, according to police. According to the release: • Quinones was previously arrested for the arson, but the charges were later dismissed without prejudice...
Eight auto burglaries have been reported in Portales in less than a week, according to Police Capt. Lonnie Berry. Sunday, a purse was taken from a vehicle in the 400 block of North Globe Avenue and an iPod from a vehicle in the 100 block of North Avenue A, Berry said. Saturday, cigarettes and other small items were reported taken from a vehicle on the 100 block of North Globe, he said. The same day in the 500 block of North Globe, a window was broken in a car and a purse was taken. Berry said the weekend incidents were not... Full story
PNT Correspondent Blake Downs Name: Joel Sievers Job: Sports medicine physician Background: Sievers attended college in Nebraska and went to medical school at Texas Tech University. Time on job: Six and one-half years What does your job entail? We evaluate and treat patients with traumatic and overuse physical injures, although we still do a little primary care. I see a lot of people and different faces, and then see them as they progress and heal. What is a typical day like for you? I come in around 7:45 every morning and...
Today’s focus: Ms. B Household members: 5 Children: 4 Special circumstances: “Ms. B” is unemployed. Her holiday hopes: For her children to have a merry Christmas. Clothing needs: Boys shirts sizes large. Boys pants sizes 10. Boys shoe sizes 1 1/2. Girls shirts sizes medium. Girls pants sizes 8. Girls shoe sizes 12. Toys list: Video games, Transformers and horses. The Empty Stocking Fund is a joint effort of the Salvation Army and Freedom New Mexico. Recipients receive gifts and clothes for their children and some may recei... Full story
Harley Pena of Clovis is a shy, 6-year-old girl who adores Hannah Montana. But these days her real-life hero is a fellow cancer patient, whose unselfish gift may just make this the best Christmas either of these two kids have ever known. Sinjin Anrdukates, 14, of Copperas Cove, Texas, is giving Harley the Christmas Wish gift he was supposed to get from his hometown Optimist Club. “If we didn’t do this, they wouldn’t have a good Christmas at all,” said Sinjin.... Full story
The police officer knocks on the front door, and it opens a crack and then more. Two boys peer out. Patrol officer Carolee Jones introduces herself and asks the boys if they’ve heard of Operation Santa Cop. They said they hadn’t, but the two youngsters learned about the toy drive program firsthand when Jones handed them a box of Christmas presents. Brothers Chris and Zachary Bliss are among children on the Portales Police Department’s list to receive Christmas presents this year. “I think it’s very giving,” said Chris, 10....
HOLLYWOOD – God bless America, and how’s everybody? • The New York Yankees signed two pitchers for $242 million last week. Great pitchers are worth their weight in diamonds. California could end its budget problems if they could find a way to put Sandy Koufax out to stud. • The Weather Channel reports that a cold front hit New York City Friday, dumping heavy snowfall and record low temperatures. The entire Eastern Seaboard was snowed in. Fur protesters on Fifth Avenue were having to watch their paint freeze i... Full story
