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The defense rested Wednesday afternoon without calling a witness in the murder trial of William Riley. The decision followed a seven-hour parade of forensic experts and law enforcement officers put on the stand by the prosecution. Testimony Wednesday placed the DNA of the victim, Roshawn Pitts, on Riley’s shirt, mapped the path of the bullets to a shooter approaching the car, placed the defendant’s footprints in the area where the gun believed to be used in the shooting was...
• Chris Aultman, friend of the victim, acquaintance of the defendant and driver of the car where Roshawn Pitts was shot, testified Monday about the moments before, during and after the shooting. He described Riley running out of his apartment with a gun and shooting through the windows of Aultman’s car. Aultman said he fled the car and when he looked back Riley was gone. He returned to scene and drove Pitts to the hospital. He described Pitts slumped in the passenger sea...
Plains Regional Medical Center officials breached federal regulations regarding administering drugs, disposal of medical waste and documenting quality control, according to a federal report issued after a February inspection of the hospital. The Clovis hospital was found to be deficient in 13 federal requirements for hospitals, according to the report, obtained this week by the Clovis News Journal through the Freedom of Information Act. Deficiencies included the improper disposal of infectious waste and inadequate training...
The following is a summary of deficiencies cited in the report: • Infection control A tour of the operating room revealed waste from a recent surgery had been placed in the regular trash rather than the bin for infectious waste. Infectious waste in New Mexico — which can include organs, blood, used needles or any substance that has a risk of transmitting disease to humans — must be rendered non-infectious before disposal, in accordance with the law. That can be done in a number of ways, including incineration or heat steri...
A 24-year-old Clovis man who left his getaway vehicle behind was arrested Monday and charged with robbing a Prince Street tobacco store, according to a Clovis Police Department press release. Andrew Dela Cruz was arrested about 20 minutes after witnesses said he entered K.C. Express at 801 N. Prince St. and demanded money, police said. A store employee told police she thought she saw a gun in the suspect’s waistband when he raised his shirt and threatened to shoot her. She gave the suspect an undisclosed sum of money. P...
John Tranchida plans to shape a living in the community where he was raised, which makes the physician-hopeful somewhat of an anomaly. Medical school graduates scuttling out of New Mexico are part of a trend that has dampened the quality of health care in the state, according to University of New Mexico officials. Of 33 counties in New Mexico, 30 have been federally designated as medically underserved, officials said. In response, the UNM College of Arts and Sciences and School of Medicine have forged a joint program designed... Full story
Shirley Hooper is campaigning for the Democratic nomination for secretary of state against Mary Herrera, Stephanie V. Gonzales and Letitia Montoya in the June 6 primary. The position is currently held by Rebecca Vigil-Giron. Bio: Hooper grew up in Lovington, and has lived and worked in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Portales and Hobbs. She served as secretary of state from 1979 to 1983, Lea County clerk from 1987 to 1991 and Santa Fe County deputy clerk in 2005. She is a member of the National Association of Secretaries of State....
Just when the Treasurer’s Office stink wafts over the capital, just when we start to think all public servants are crooked, just when we are about to turn our backs forever on self-serving Santa Fe bureaucrats, in walks Dorian. Just in time. She is the spring rain in a desert drought. She is the freshly blossomed red rose in the thorny political patch of black hearts. She is the tender love song at a rap concert. I know. I know. I am getting much too carried away here. Lord knows how effusive this might get if I ever met t...
Finding "Billy" facts an honorable taskWhat an honor for two of New Mexico’s finest citizens to be invited to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France for the showing of their documentary earlier this month. Tom Sullivan, retired sheriff of Lincoln County, and his deputy, Steve Sederwall, participated in the making of a western documentary film, “Requiem for Billy the Kid,” directed by Anne Feinsilber. The film investigates the questioned death of Billy the Kid at the gun of Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881. In their quest...
Services: 11 a.m. Friday at First Christian Church. Ronald James Hammar, 58, of Clovis died Wednesday, May 24, 2006, at Southwest Regional Medical Complex in Lubbock. Born Aug. 7, 1947, in Clovis to Arnold and Beverly Ann Hammar, he married Carla Blair on Oct. 28, 1995, in Clovis. He was a member and former deacon at First Christian Church. He was also a former teacher and bookkeeper of the family business. Family members said he loved reading and spending time with his grandkids. He was preceded in death by his mother and...
Christina Bean is a Clovis High School senior. She is the daughter of J. Frank and A. Sylvia Bean. What is your theme song? The theme song from “Mission Impossible.” What would you like printed on your gravestone? I want to be cremated so I don’t care whether or not I have a gravestone. If money were no object, what would you do to make the world a better place? I would form a group of animal care facilities that would take stray animals off the street, make them better and find homes for them. It would be a place where peopl...
