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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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PORTALES — Eastern New Mexico University will soon begin a nationwide search for a new baseball coach, as David Gomez has resigned the spot to pursue other opportunities in his home state of Louisiana. The university announced the resignation Wednesday. "I would like to thank Dr. (Steven) Gamble and Dr. (Jeff) Geiser (former president and athletic director) for first giving me a chance to become an NCAA head coach, and I would also like to then thank Dr. (Jeff) Elwell and Dr. (Greg) Waggoner (current president and AD) for p...
PORTALES - Angel Loya was sentenced Wednesday morning to six years in prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the April 2018 shooting death of Dylan McKay in Portales. "I'm truly sorry for what happened," Loya told McKay's loved ones in the crowded court hearing. "It was never my intention to take Dylan's life." Loya, 23, faced up to 15 years in prison if convicted at trial on his original charge of second-degree murder. Attorneys said in...
Today • Carson and Barnes “CircusSaurus” — 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Curry County Events Center, 1900 E. Brady, Clovis. Children’s tickets $6-$20; adult tickets $14-$28. Ticket information available at http://www.bigtopshow.com, or by calling 580-743-4292 • Portales High School Maypole dress rehearsals — 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., PHS Gymnasium, 201 S. Knoxville, Portales. 6 p.m. video cameras only; 8 p.m. still photography only. Information: 575-356-7000 Thursday • Blood drive — 1:30-5:30 p.m., Bloodmobile, Portales Public L...
PORTALES — Charged last year with second-degree murder for the April 2018 shooting death of Dylan McKay, 23-year old Angel Loya hopes to plead down to voluntary manslaughter in a conference this morning in Roosevelt County. Loya told Portales police last year that she shot McKay in self-defense, stating that “it just happened.” McKay, 24, died from a single gunshot to his back right shoulder, according to court records. Deputy District Attorney Jake Boazman confirmed with The News that Loya intended to enter a plea of guilt...
Stepping into Mesa Elementary’s multi-purpose room recently was stepping back into The Golden Age of Radio. Fifth-grade teachers Cheryl Cunningham, Ashlee Spears, and Aundi Curtis resurrected a play they’d done some years ago, called “Radio Days.” Written by Cunningham years earlier, when teaching at Cameo Elementary, this production had actually grown out of a classroom “reader’s theater” activity Cunningham had incorporated to improve students’ reading fluency. Radio...
CLOVIS — The man hospitalized last year after shooting himself following a standoff at the Curry County jail was sentenced Tuesday to 2 1/2 years in prison. That was for the charges that landed him in jail before the shooting. Wesley Flores, 29, pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of an ATM card and possession of a firearm by a felon. He signed an agreement to that effect last month and formalized those terms in a hearing Tuesday morning before Judge Fred Van Soelen. Per the agreement, Flores was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in th...
CLOVIS — The scheme was to mail drugs to a Clovis jail inmate. The plan was foiled when law enforcement asked why an envelope postmarked over 200 miles away had listed a law firm within walking distance of the jail as its return address. A captain at the Curry County Adult Detention Center alerted a sheriff investigator last month that “he had found contraband that was being mailed into the facility” and “explained that the postmark was one of the things that made him suspicious of the letter,” according to a criminal...
Today’s topic is change. It makes the world go round, but a lot of people hate it anyway. Change is inevitable, and yet the older we get, the more we’re inclined to resist it. It can be evolutionary or revolutionary, and it always has its share of detractors and proponents. Change is seldom without controversy. By its own definition, it causes friction. And nowadays, it comes at a blinding pace. More changes have come to the human experience in the last 50 years than has occurred in a thousand years prior. We barely have tim...
