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A man charged with killing his wife on Wednesday was "not acting coherent" when police interviewed him. Court records show Lloyd E. Edwards, 68, was talking to "either himself or his fictitious friend on (a) constant basis," court records show. Police were called to the Love's Travel Center on Mabry Drive at 9:25 p.m. Wednesday. Edwards called police to report his wife, Roxie Edwards, 68, was bleeding and possibly stabbed in the neck. Roxie Edwards was transported to Plains...
PORTALES – If Clovis High's girls were looking for a test heading into the start of District 4-5A play this week, they certainly got one on Friday night. Portales High hung with the Lady Wildcats for three quarters before Clovis erupted for a 20-0 run that carried into the final minute of the game for a 42-27 victory at the Ram Athletic Center. CHS (16-3) extended its winning streak to 12 games, but had to work hard to do it. The Lady Cats struggled to score most of the way a...
ROSWELL – Portales High’s boys are on a roll heading into District 4-4A play. The Rams registered their seventh consecutive victory on Thursday night, opening an 18-point lead at halftime and cruising past New Mexico Military 71-48. Senior guard Xodus Gomez finished with 14 points and four steals for the Rams (12-7), who hosted Dexter on Saturday in their final non-district tilt. Senior guard Damian Lucero added 12 points and team highs of eight rebounds and four assists, while sophomore guard Paxton Culpepper chipped 12 poi...
Clovis Municipal Schools has issued a call to fill openings on the CMS staff for school nurses. According to a CMS news release the school system has openings on the nursing staff. The news release points up that CMS nursing staff has summers and holidays off, regular hours Monday through Friday, a competitive salary, benefits that are described as “great” and what the news release describes as an “awesome work family.” The news release encourages interested parties to visit the CMS website: www.clovis-sch...
Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell this month, sliding to the lowest level since September and underscoring a strong jobs market where many businesses are reluctant to let go of workers. Initial unemployment claims decreased by 15,000 to 190,000 in the week ended Jan. 14, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The median forecast was for 214,000 applications, but the data can be particularly volatile and difficult to seasonally adjust in the winter...
Clovis – The Plateau Telecommunications Board of Directors have announced the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, Launa B. Waller. Waller succeeds the company’s previous CEO, David Robinson, who retired at the end of October. According to a news release from Plateau, the company’s Board of Directors conducted an extensive national search for the Company’s next CEO, considering and interviewing multiple external and internal candidates for the position. Waller has more than 27 years of service with Plateau. Waller ha...
The University of Pennsylvania is denying allegations that the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a Washington, D.C., think tank and President Joe Biden's former office space, solicited money from foreign entities. "It is important to reiterate that the Penn Biden Center has never solicited or received any gifts from any Chinese or other foreign entity," a Penn spokesperson told the Daily Pennsylvanian, the university's student newspaper. The allegations...
The Treasury Department is beginning the use of special measures to avoid a U.S. payments default, after the federal debt limit was reached Thursday. The department is tapping the financial resources of two government-run funds for retirees, in a move that will give the Treasury scope to keep making federal payments while it’s unable to boost the overall level of debt. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen informed congressional leaders of both parties of the step in a letter on Thursday. She had already notified them of the p...
SANTA ROSA - High school students in Santa Rosa have completed a schoolwide project presentation after spending just over nine weeks last semester learning about World War II in class and reading Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's memoir, "Night." The memorial exhibit was available for families and students to view during a recent open house. According to history teacher Monica La Palma, the close reading of Wiesel's book, which has been translated...
SANTA FE -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s push to ban assault weapons in New Mexico may dominate the Legislature’s discussion on guns. But it will have company. Several gun-related bills have been or will be introduced in this year’s 60-day session, promising a battle royale over the role of guns in a state with a long history of gun ownership — and a searing violence problem. “There’s a lot of appetite to do this,” said Rep. Andrea Romero, D-Santa Fe. “Every single day we hear something else in the news about what is g...
ROSWELL — New Mexico Supreme Court Justices heard arguments but declined to rule Jan. 9 on a challenge to the state’s new congressional map, and whether New Mexico courts can weigh in on claims of partisan gerrymandering. Chief Justice Shannon Bacon said given the seriousness of the issues presented and the fact the next congressional elections are not until 2024, the justices did not feel the need to immediately reach a decision. “This is an issue of significant importance and we want to be deliberative,” Bacon said to atto...
LOS ANGELES — With the announcement on Thursday that criminal charges will be filed in the 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western “Rust,” Alec Baldwin is likely to see his already damaged career erode even further. Baldwin, who starred in the yet-to-be-completed “Rust” and was one of its producers, will be charged by New Mexico prosecutors with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for his role in the fatality. Baldwin shot Hutchins in the chest on Oct. 21, 2021, while rehearsing a s...
I was walking along a public sidewalk the other day when a woman’s voice came from a nearby house informing me that I was being recorded. So, I belted out a medley of Broadway show tunes. There was once a time when constant surveillance conjured up Orwellian images of Big Brother. Now, it’s just a routine part of life. And so, I don’t expect there to be much objection to the recent announcement by Las Cruces Police Chief Miguel Dominguez that the city plans to purchase more “eye in the sky” cameras in response to an increa...
This may be 2023, but 2022 is still hanging around on court dockets. Last year, we saw the biggest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history. We watched as our Legislature reconfigured the state’s congressional districts. We saw the U.S. Supreme Court strike down the nearly half-century-old Roe decision. And while these and other state and national developments left a heavy footprint on the year just ended, they’ll be litigated in the year just begun. The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire burned 341,471 acres in northern New Mexic...
We can ignore all the danger signs until America’s adversaries cut off exports of vital minerals and metals and the lights go dim and factories shut down. Or we can try to act with a sense of urgency and do something about ending our dependence on autocracies like China and Russia to supply minerals and metals needed for energy production and building batteries for electric vehicles and electricity transmission systems. China supplies two-thirds of the rare earth minerals used in EV batteries, wind turbines, smart phones, a...
In December the Legislative Finance Committee published a report on New Mexico’s Medicaid program. Whether by design or accident, the report happened to coincide with the 10th anniversary of New Mexico’s Medicaid expansion. Then-Gov. Susana Martinez decided to accept the “ObamaCare” expansion dollars which, at the time, was 100% federally funded. The LFC report is full of great information, but it doesn’t attempt to assess whether Medicaid expansion was worthwhile. Unfortuna...
Why can’t most of the public see how ridiculous it looks to fight over the various forms of government? They argue over whether to be ruled (and to rule each other) with socialism or capitalism, communism or theocracy, by a dictator or by the mob through democracy. It’s like arguing with others over what kind of deadly poison to add to your soup. The right choice is to rule your own life and not try to rule anyone else; to not add any sort of poison to your soup. Each of the...
If it’s January in New Mexico, it’s time for Democratic lawmakers’ annual efforts to make up unconstitutional gun laws that have no chance of accomplishing stated goals. So it’s also time to remind our elected representatives why their time is better spent trying to isolate violent criminals – or preventing them from becoming violent criminals -- so they can’t hurt the rest of us. We can outlaw guns with large-capacity magazines, we can outlaw guns in schools and shopping ma...
The Clovis-Curry County Chamber of Commerce on Friday acknowledged one of area's noteworthy families with the presentation of a Chamber guitar award to the Norteño band Los Huracanes Del Norte. As the summer was coming to an end the group, which makes its home at a hacienda located between Clovis and Portales, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in California. About 400 people attended the banquet at the Curry County Events Center. The Chamber's Heart Award went to...
Cited for their works in bringing new businesses to Portales and improving their properties, Bruce and Tabitha Nixon went home after Thursday's Roosevelt County Chamber Banquet holding the Chamber's business of the year award, The President's Award. In winning the honor the Nixons' acquisition of the former Calton Furniture building was noted and how they turned it into a new storefront for their own business. The Nixons also opened a coffee shop and a rental business. In...
On this date ... 1946: A Curry County man and his son were awarded more than $700 by a district court jury. Thomas J. Stephens and his son Tommy Dale Stephens, 10, who lived five miles west of Clovis, sued Victory Bus, which operated between Clovis and the Clovis air base. The Stephens’ alleged a Victory Bus was being operated recklessly when it struck the boy, who was running across the highway after exiting a school bus. The boy suffered a broken leg, broken hand and o...
Booked The following were booked into local jails (Tuesday - Friday): Clovis • Mark Cordova, 23, larceny, shoplifting, criminal trespass, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer • Evelyn Martinez, 33, probation violation • Dylan Nixon, 30, failure to pay fines, probation violation, receiving/transferring stolen motor vehicles, failure to appear on misdemeanor charge • Noel Garcia, 36, battery, parole violation • Richard Rees, 32, failure to appear on a felony charge, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer ...
The city of Clovis will support efforts of the Highland Dairy southwest of the city, and EPCOR, the city's water provider, to obtain funding from the 2023 New Mexico Legislature to help find solutions to problems created by PFAS chemical pollution for the dairy's water supply, the Clovis City Commission decided unanimously on Thursday. Since Nov. 18, 2018, the dairy has halted dairy production due to the presence of PFAS chemicals in the water that was used for feed crops and...
Eastern New Mexico University is asking for nearly $33.5 million in state funds through the 2023 New Mexico Legislature, university regents decided Wednesday in a regular meeting. The board met in Santa Fe on the second day of the Legislature’s 60-day session in New Mexico’s capitol building, the Roundhouse. Included in the total are about $17.8 million in funding in New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) allocations, more than $10.6 million in general requests, and about $5.1 million in HED Research and Public Ser...
Shauna Wade has three children in Dora schools. Wade got the news that something new was happening at the southern Roosevelt County school system directly from her kids. “My kids came home and they said, ‘Oh my gosh they took our fingerprints,’” Wade said. Wade said she called other parents and no one else knew anything about the alleged gathering of fingerprints. But Dora Superintendent Brandon Hays said what was actually going on was the school system was implementing “finger scanning,” not fingerprinting. “What bothers me...
