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Booked The following were booked into local jails Tuesday - Thursday: Clovis • Joey Petty, leaving the scene of an accident, resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, criminal damage to property, open container, speeding • Brandon Brooks,...

The following marriage licenses were filed through Thursday at the Curry County clerk’s office: • Marissa Christina Cruz, 29, of Clovis, and Lorna Reyes, 27, of Amarillo • Quran Tikal Wiggins, 26, and Amanda Nicole Hernandez, 29, both of... Full story

MELROSE — Last month the Melrose community said goodbye to one of its longtime residents, a “Great Generation” exemplar, a “good neighbor and happy person” and the oldest member of its Baptist church — both in age and in years of...

CLOVIS — Curry County's former senior meals director, charged in February with embezzling thousands from the program, was scheduled this week for a trial in September. The matter was set to go to trial later this month, but a continuance was...

CLOVIS — President Trump has produced a laundry list of justifications in his threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, including border wall funding. New Mexico’s congressional delegation has chosen to focus in on one particular... Full story

PORTALES — Anyone expecting Eastern New Mexico’s athletic teams to bolt the Lone Star Conference and return to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics should not hold their collective breaths. ENMU president Jeff Elwell said...

RICHARDSON, Texas — In the classroom, Eastern New Mexico University athletes have been some of the best in the Lone Star Conference, with six consecutive semesters of placing among the top three in LSC Commissioner’s Honor Roll selections....

• Eastern New Mexico University is now selling 2019-20 memberships for the Greyhound Club, with club membership required to buy season tickets for football, volleyball and basketball. Memberships start at $100 with different benefits for donation...

The following books are available for checkout: Clovis-Carver Public Library “Code of Valor” by Lynette Eason finds Detective Brady St. John vacationing at a friend's cabin when he hears a scream and rescues a woman from her would-be killer....

Baxter Curren Senior Center 908 Hickory St., Clovis Sunday: 2 p.m. gospel singing, 3 p.m. ice cream social, no daily activites Monday: 8:30 a.m. exercise class, 10 a.m. jewelry pals, 1 p.m. canasta, 5 p.m. business meeting, 6 p.m. social night...

Curry County and Area Republican Women Curry County and Area Republican Women met Tuesday at K-Bob's Steakhouse, with Vice-President Debbie Eliason presiding. Gladys Birdsong lead the invocation and Debbie Spriggs led the Pledge of Alliance. There...

Last year, the U.S. Air Force confirmed that firefighting foam containing toxic PFAS chemicals used around Cannon and Holloman Air Force Bases in New Mexico had contaminated nearby groundwater supplies. The contamination at Cannon affects several...

A little more than a year ago, I decided to look up the streaming package for the Women’s National Basketball Association. I had already planned to purchase NBA League Pass later in the year, and thought there might be a group discount. I knew...

Politics is complicated. And politicians are champions at confusing voters and taxpayers even more than necessary in efforts to sway support. Take, for example, President Trump’s recent threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act. New...

Did R. Alexander Acosta mishandle the case a decade ago of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy and politically connected financier who was accused of sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls at his pink waterfront mansion in Palm Beach,...

The American middle class just got a lot richer. Joe Biden, who invariably and tiresomely refers to himself as “Middle-Class Joe,” made $15 million the first two years after the end of the Obama administration. This hardly qualifies as a...

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