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A gunshot was reported outside the residence of former Clovis-Portales District Attorney Randall Harris on Saturday night, police have confirmed. No injuries were reported and police Capt. Patrick Whitney said the incident "had nothing to do with him (Harris) being a former DA or being a lawyer." Whitney said "There is an arrest anticipated," in connection with the incident, but "that will come by warrant." Clovis police call logs show officers responded to a home on Concord Road after a report of shots fired came in at 9:18... Full story
Portales High School Senior Haley Madden used her hobby of video-making to apply for a scholarship opportunity. One of her videos has earned her a finalist position in the Go Go Geo Scholarship Video Challenge, a challenge sponsored by Touchstone Energy Cooperatives to promote geothermal energy. The contest was open to high school students in Oklahoma and New Mexico. Madden said she didn't know much about geothermal energy, which is generated and stored within the earth, prior to the contest, but feels confident that now she...
Delaney Swift, a freshman from Portales High School, has been competing in Destination Imagination since the third grade. She and her PHS teammates won first place at the secondary school level for their improvisation challenge, Change in RealiTee, at the statewide competition in Albuquerque two weeks ago. Destination Imagination is a creativity and problem solving competition for students in grades elementary through college. The students are placed in teams and each team is given a challenge that they must then solve and...
RUIDOSO — Wind wrecked havoc with golfers on Monday in the Leroy Gooch Invitational, but the Portales High girls managed to earn a leg toward Class 1A-3A state competition anyway. Senior Paige Hartman shot 43-41 — 84, putting her in a tie for fifth place indivually with Clovis' Haley Berry, as the Lady Rams compiled a team score of 412 at The Links of Sierra Blanca, leaving them in a tie for 12th place with Onate after the first day's competition. They now have two of the three legs required to qualify for state. The PHS boy... Full story
Clovis Community College President Becky Rowley, a seven-time participant in the Boston Marathon, spent part of Monday morning wishing she had made it an eighth time this year, as she heard the weather conditions were perfect. File photo CCC President Becky Rowley said she still plans to run in the Boston Marathon next year. On her lunch break, that desire had understandably changed. She got a call from her mother about the explosion at the marathon's finish line, around four... Full story
The following items will be on the Roosevelt County Commission's meeting agenda today at 9 a.m.: - Approve request to name (Memorial) Show Arena in memory of Johnny Ogden. - Appoint alternate member of JLUS committee. - Approve request for appeal of denied indigent claim. - Approve out of state travel to Waxahachie, Texas, for advanced passenger and commercial vehicle, criminal and terrorist identification and apprehension workshop. — Compiled by PNT staff writer Jillian Holbert...
The following items are on the agenda for Portales City Council's meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. today: - Presentation of 25-year service award to Martin Mendoza of Parks/Cemetery Department. - Formal presentation of letters of commendation to firefighters Dathan Culpepper and Reylon Wimbish. - Proclamation declaring April 27 as "Comcast Cares Day in Portales, New Mexico" partnering with the Portales Recreation Center. - Award presentation to three recreation center students for 2013 Fair Housing coloring competition. - Update...
Spring break Dora schools will closed for spring break this week. Classes will resume on Monday. Sports schedule - Thursday — junior high track at Tucumcari - Friday — varsity track at Hagerman - Saturday— varsity track at Texico - 3 p.m. Monday — baseball at Gateway in Roswell BPA enchilada dinner Business Professionals of America sponsor Colleen Tollett and Dora Business Professionals of America members will offer an enchilada dinner on Sunday in the school cafeteria. The dinner will include enchiladas, beans, salad,... Full story
Today Pancake Breakfast — 7:30-10 a.m., Portales Senior Center. Breakfast is $3. Information: 356-8741. Roosevelt County Commission meeting — 9 a.m., Commission Room in the Roosevelt County Courthouse. Information: 356-5307. Books N Babies — 10:30 a.m., Portales Public Library. "1-2-3 Count With Me" will be featured. For ages 0-3. Information 356-3940. Relay For Life of Portales team and committee meeting — 5:30 p.m., Pizza Hut in Portales. Information: 760-5692 or [email protected]. Boot Camp — 5:30 p.m., Portales... Full story
My book of quotes sits open on my desk. I read from it occasionally. Just two or three at a time. Sometimes a simple sentence can send my mind down a wonderful path. This one did. "Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to an end." — Aesop My first thoughts took me to the dining hall in Downton Abbey, then on through beautifully crafted conversations in Jane Austen novels. I believe our dinner topics would have made these genteel characters blush at every turn. I pondered the good and the bad of t...
CANYON, Texas — Sophomore Alesha Jones and freshman Laura Grube each won events for Eastern New Mexico University's women in Saturday's West Texas A&M Multis track competition. Jones took first in the 800 with a time of 2:13.28, leading a 1-3-4 Zias finish and good enough to move her into 15th in NCAA Division II rankings. Grube won javelin competition at 134 feet, 5 inches, and also placed fourth in discus and eighth in hammer. Jones also led off the Zias' 1,600 relay, which finished second with a time of 4:03.41. The men p...
SAN ANTONIO — Three times on Sunday, Eastern New Mexico University's baseball team was within an out of victory. Twice, the count was 0-2. Incarnate Word rallied, though, scoring once in the ninth inning to tie it and then getting a two-out, two-run bloop single from Jordan Scelfo, who had been 0-for-5 to that point, in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Greyhounds 6-5 and complete a four-game Lone Star Conference series sweep. UIW (25-15, 11-9 LSC) outhit the Hounds 14-9, but ENMU received seven walks and five hit batsmen fr...
Here is a sampling of police, sheriff and fire call logs: Friday - 5:04 a.m.: Caller requested an ambulance for an 18-year-old female with abdominal pain, 1500 block of South Avenue K. - 9:37 a.m.: Call in reference to a cat in a trap, 2100 block of Hayes. - 9:58 a.m.: Caller reported someone took a Fed-Ex package, 1200 block of Oakwood. - 10:20 a.m.: Caller reported a suspicious vehicle in the area and wants to speak with an officer, 1800 block of South Avenue D. - 11:02 a.m.: Caller requested an officer, 1900 block of...
BOSTON — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will "feel the full w... Full story
