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  • Taylor Swift: Ticket situation 'excruciating'

    Christie D Zurilla Los Angeles Times, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 18, 2022

    Well. Taylor Swift is not happy with Ticketmaster. Not happy at all. Swift has finally spoken out about the ticketing disaster that played out this week as frustrated fans tried - and often failed - to buy tickets to the "1989" singer's Eras concert tour. "Well. It goes without saying that I'm extremely protective of my fans," she wrote in a statement posted Friday in her Instagram stories. "We've been doing this for decades together and over the years, I've brought so many...

  • Pelosi to step down as House Dem leader

    Nolan McCaskill and Sarah Wire Los Angeles Times, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 17, 2022

    WASHINGTON - After months of speculation about her future, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will not seek to lead House Democrats for another term, but remain in Congress. The decision - capping a 35-year career in which the Californian became the most powerful female Congress member in U.S. history - followed her party's narrow loss of the chamber in last week's midterm election. Pelosi is also abiding by a 2018 agreement with fellow Democrats that she would step...

  • Two Clovis men dead in car-train crash

    the Staff of The News|Updated Nov 17, 2022

    New Mexico State Police last week identified a Clovis man as the second person killed in a car-train accident that occurred Nov. 4 between Tucumcari and Logan. Abraham Riquiac-Gonzalez, 30, of Clovis, was the driver of the Toyota Camry car that was struck by a Union Pacific train at a County Road AD crossing, just off U.S. 54, according to an email Friday from a state police public information officer. State police three days after the accident identified Pedro Jimon, 38, also of Clovis, as a passenger in the car. The Camry w...

  • Five takeaways from Trump's 2024 presidential announcement

    Joey Flechas Miami Herald, Syndicated content|Updated Nov 16, 2022

    Donald Trump formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday night at an event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, surprising few pundits and energizing his loyal base of followers. The former president, 76, twice-impeached and under investigation for his handling of classified documents, aims to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination and retake control of the White House. Two years after denying the results of a fair election and fomenting an...

  • State funds food assistance programs

    the Staff of The News|Updated Nov 15, 2022

    The New Mexico Human Services Department has announced families of 91,460 New Mexico children through age 5 will receive additional food benefits this fall for the 2021-22 childcare and summer P-EBT programs on a gradual schedule. The $52.8 million in Pandemic Electronic Beneft Transfer benefits will be issued to children under age 6 in families who were participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program between August 2021 and June 2022, according to a news release. For each month of P-EBT benefits available,...

  • Faith: Best to stay by the fire and not linger out in the cold

    Curtis Shelburne, Local columnist|Updated Nov 15, 2022

    You are reading the words of a man who feels, at least for the moment, that he’s done what he can to provide for his family. And I feel good about that. Warm, even. A quick look out into the back yard will tell the tale: firewood. Every year about this time, I get a nagging feeling that I’m neglecting some responsibility, some father/grandfather’s sacred task, and then it hits me: time to get the firewood. Truth be told, I usually don’t have to wait long enough for a nagging...

  • Commentary: For Shough, his time may be now

    Jon Mark Beilue, Sports columnist|Updated Nov 15, 2022

    In the beginning, there was Tyler Shough, followed by Henry Columbi, followed by Donovan Smith, followed by Shough again, followed by Smith again, followed by Behren Morton and followed by Shough again. For those trying to find the right number of pieces to the Texas Tech quarterback puzzle, it’s four quarterbacks starting seven times over the last 23 games. And to think, this was a program that once had one quarterback – Graham Harrell – starting 39 consecutive games over thr...

  • Lady Blue cruises to first win with thumping of Happy

    the Staff of The News|Updated Nov 15, 2022

    FARWELL — Farwell’s girls broke into the win column on Saturday with a 59-21 rout of Happy behind three players in double figures. Sophomore Makaylee Baldwin finished with 12 points for the Lady Blue (1-1), who limited the Cowgirls (0-1) to just five first-half points. Senior Charlie Trimble added 11 points, while junior Chloee Whitten had 10. Junior Bree Humphrey was Happy’s top scorer, collecting eight points. Farwell will be at home again on Saturday, taking on Brownfield. Muleshoe 54, Springlake 48 — In a Friday matchup...

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