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CLOVIS — Police on Friday arrested one of four young suspects in connection with the burglary the weekend prior of over $40,000 in property from an antiques store on Clovis’ Main Street. Ryan Hernandez, 19, entered no plea this week in...

Booked The following were booked into local jails Friday-Monday: Clovis • Jolene Gomez, 19, probation violation • Charity Hardin, 37, failure to pay fines • Kia Gallo, 25, criminal damage to property • Ryan Hernandez, 19, aggravated...

ALBUQUERQUE — A new challenge to the New Mexico Racing Commission’s long-awaited award of a sixth racing license further clouds the likelihood of a decision soon. In a letter dated Feb. 7, Full House Resorts CEO and President Daniel Lee...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday sent an "executive message" to state senators, asking them to "pass legislation creating a department for early childhood education." Senate Bill 22 would establish the Early Learning and Care Department as...

ALBUQUERQUE — The legislative advocacy non-profit “New Mexico Counties” celebrated in a news release last week the dismissal late last year of a lawsuit against Curry County by a former employee of the local jail. Amanda Sinfuego had alleged...

TEXICO — It was another tough Saturday for the Texico boys basketball team, but this time a much better showing for the Wolverines. Down by 13 and missing a member of their rotation for most of the second half, the Wolves fought back to make it a...

This is it, the meet high school swim teams aspire to all season. Beginning Friday and continuing Saturday, New Mexico swimmers will be descending upon Albuquerque Academy High School, all hoping for a medal or a trophy. The Clovis girls, a...

PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico men’s basketball team pushed its win streak to five games thanks to a dominate second half and secured an 83-71 victory over Angelo State on Saturday. Playing their last home game of the season, the Hounds...

AUSTIN, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s baseball team lost Friday’s series opener against Huston-Tillotson about the worst way a baseball team could lose a game — via grand slam with two outs to eliminate a three-run lead. The...

RICHARDSON, Texas — Eastern New Mexico University’s basketball teams, both coming off of a 2-0 week, had their defensive efforts recognized by the Lone Star Conference. A pair of seniors — Chukuka Emili for the men and Treyanna Clay for the...

PORTALES — The Division II indoor track and field qualifying period runs through Sunday. Eastern New Mexico is playing the waiting game until then. Mercy Rotich won the 3,000-meter final, helping the Greyhound women take a fourth-place finish at...

PORTALES — The Eastern New Mexico women’s basketball team rallied from a 12-point second half deficit Saturday to take down No. 17 Angelo State 71-67 in the Hounds’ final home game of the 2018-19 season. With the win in the Senior Day game,...

PORTALES — However the rest of Portales’ basketball season plays out, Tuesday night was a benchmark for both the boys and girls teams. With both squads playing at the Ram Athletic Center for the first time in two weeks, Portales’ girls...

Many people know the classic signs of a heart attack — terrible pain in the center of the chest that radiates out to the arms or jaw. But what you may not know is that for women, symptoms can be very different. February is American Heart Month, a...

Mandy and Tom, my former sister-in-law and brother-in-law, recently came to visit. Except I don’t call them that because, when I divorced, Mandy announced: “Since you can’t be my sister-in-law anymore, you’ll have to be my sister!...

It’s become a perennial expectation that a senator or representative feels the need to tweak the lottery scholarship formula. They can’t stand to leave it alone. This year the honor has gone to Sen. Jacob Candelaria, D-Bernalillo. His Senate...

Sound the alarm! We’ve got a national emergency on our hands! Well, it’s really more of a constitutional emergency, as President Trump has opened the door for all future emergency declarations to be defined by politics, not real threats to our...

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