Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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CLOVIS — A one-goal game can be fun and nerve-racking, thrilling and terrifying at the same time. It was all of those for the Clovis girls soccer team when hosting district rival Carlsbad on a cold rainy Tuesday night at Leon Williams Stadium. The Lady Wildcats scored fairly early in the game, then hung on to that narrow lead for the remainder — thanks in part to the goalkeeping tandem of senior Hannah Howell and sophomore Hanna Nussbaumer — and shut out the Cavegirls 1-0....
CLOVIS — The cold air is a signal, indicating high school football games are getting scarce, playoff implications are everywhere. Clovis High goes into its ninth game with pretty much everything on the line. The Wildcats emerged from last weekend’s 19-0 loss at Manzano with a 1-1 record in District 2/5-6A play, a 3-5 mark overall. This Friday at 7 p.m., the ’Cats host district foe Eldorado at Leon Williams Stadium, with a bye week after that and one more regular-season game...
ESPANOLA — Paramedics rushed a married couple to the hospital just past midnight Oct. 8 after they each sustained serious injuries when a tree fell onto their tent near Trampas Lakes. Luke and Meredith Austin, of Amarillo, were camping at the lakes with their four children when high winds caused the tree to fall onto the tent and across each of their midsection. Jeff Cone, Meredith Austin’s father, said the couple’s four children were sleeping in a separate tent and were not injured. Meredith Austin was transferred to a Lev...
LAS CRUCES — A Roswell man pleaded guilty Oct. 10 to the unlawful possession of explosives during an appearance in federal court in Las Cruces. Jeffrey Blake Vanover, 53, of Roswell, entered the plea of guilty without the benefit of a plea agreement, according to a press release from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico. The release stated that Vanover was arrested April 7 on a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of explosives “because he was an unlawful drug user and addict and bec...
FORT SUMNER — A former Motor Vehicle Department employee was sentenced last week to five years probation for embezzling over $30,000 from customers while voiding their cash transactions during an 18-month period. Alisha Segura, 34, pleaded guilty to both embezzlement (over $20,000) and conspiracy in an agreement in June, and was sentenced Friday in the 10th Judicial District. Per that hearing, she is also required to pay back that money, at least $6,000 per year until it’s reimbursed. Segura told court officers she was a sin...
