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The New Mexico State Police are looking for a man just escaped from the DeBaca County Detention Center in Fort Sumner. Nicoles Davis, 20, is 5-foot-11, 165 pounds with hazel eyes. He was last seen on foot near 17th Street by the railroad. He is believed to be wearing a white t-shirt, orange pants and black flip flops. Anybody who has seen Davis is asked to call 911. UPDATE: The NMSP reported just after 1 p.m. Davis was taken into custody without incident...
CLOVIS — It's cold outside and that means it's house fire season. Clovis firefighters were called to residential fires on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening. While no injuries were reported, both fires caused damage and major problems for property owners. On Thursday, firefighters were called to a shed fire near 8th and Edwards streets in Clovis about 5:15 p.m. A neighbor said she reported the fire a few minutes earlier after seeing smoke from the small abandoned white b...
LITTLEFIELD, Texas — The Portales High boys basketball team scored 60 points in the final three quarters of its win over Sundown, 69-49, in the first round of the Littlefield Wildcat Classic on Thursday morning. The Rams (5-3) trailed 13-4 in the early going, and were held to just nine points at the end of the first period. “We were getting really good shots in the first quarter — whole first half, really,” Portales coach Rickie McBroom explained. “But, we weren’t making them. The difference in the second half is that we sta...
TEXICO — Texico’s boys basketball team is off to a great start in its holiday tournament. To say the least. The Wolverines jumped far ahead early and stayed in full command, going on to rout Laguna-Acoma 80-20 Thursday night at Texico High School. The Wolverines improved to 9-0 on the season as they head to the second round. There they’ll face Newcombe, a team that drove seven hours to play them. Texico will enter tonight’s game undefeated thanks to a thoroughly dominant effort against a scrappy Laguna-Acoma team, buildin...
What are your declarations for the new year? Many people call them resolutions, but I say that in each of our minds, many of us will declare that we are going to do things differently for the new year. So what areas of your life do you plan on making a declaration that things will be different? I declare in my own heart that I will be more attuned to God’s will for my life. I know many times he wants to use me but because of personal hangups or time or just plain s...
Thank the Lord for shepherds and stargazers. While muckety-mucks in Rome were trying to figure out new and improved ways to shake even more shekels from the pockets of the subjugated populace and further filch the meager bread of the common man, the highest of kings was pretty much ignoring Rome. The most powerful of all earthly kingdoms was less than nothing compare to his. The true king was dispatching a troop of angelic hosts, any one of whom would be stronger than an assem...
There’s this week between Christmas and New Year’s that just seems to be the strangest sort of time. No matter the work you have to do or the places you have to be, it still seems like time and the world is just a little bit off from the speed that it normally runs. Out on the farm and over at the ranch, work doesn’t stop because it’s the season for celebrating, but it still seems to soak up the festive spirit. The family manages to show up at Grandma’s for Christmas...
PORTALES — As Eastern New Mexico’s 2017 baseball campaign draws near, two Greyhounds are already receiving hype before the season even begins. Middle infielders Alex de la Cruz and Endy Villalona were named to Collegiate Baseball Newspaper's Preseason All-American Team. De la Cruz, a second baseman, set a program record last year with 65 runs scored in 2016. He also posted the second-highest single-season batting average in team history (.441). Beyond that, De la Cruz also made numerous ENMU single-season top 10 lists includi...
CLOVIS — Though it took a little while for the Clovis girls basketball team to find its rhythm Thursday, once the Lady Wildcats did so, they were off and running. They coasted to a 60-10 victory over Rio Grande on the opening night of the Plateau Holiday Tournament at Rock Staubus Gymnasium. Clovis didn't score until 1:40 had gone by in the game, finally getting on the board with Kaydee Weaver's short turnaround hoop. But, the floodgates were officially open, and Clovis p...
PORTALES — The residents of Roosevelt County have become accustomed to prep athletic success over the years, including in recent memory. Once again, the county proved to be one of the most competitive in the state, thanks to a strong 2017 showing that crowned state champions in Portales and Elida, while others came up just shy of winning championships. Portales had already notched one state title in the 2016-17 school year when the football team took the 4A crown. However, this past spring, coach Dusty Nusser’s Rams gave the...
On this date ... 1972: Elida students were performing a play called "Thirty Minutes with Santa Claus." Cast members were Rocky Burris as Santa Claus; Mark Daugherty and Jennifer Hurtt as Father and Mother; Jacque Wilcox as Daughter; Katy Craig and Becky King as voices 1 and 2; Sherry Jackson as Mary; Tim Bob Wilson as Joseph; Lupe Contreras as the innkeeper; Danny Sadler, Leslie May, and Donald Gibson as the wise men; Carey Lynn Moore as the angel; and carolers Mark Anthony,...
PORTALES — Roosevelt County had a wet and windy summer in 2017, with storms flooding over 60 miles of roads and pulverizing homes and buildings. The weather ranked among the year's top stories for county residents. The largest storm of the season hit on Aug. 3, flooding areas north and west of Floyd through to parts of the county south of Portales. County Manager Amber Hamilton, seeing the scope of the damage, met with state officials just days after the storm hit to assess t...
CLOVIS — For the city of Clovis, 2017 was a year with nothing left out. Whether it was transition, tragedy or triumph, everything played a part. Most recently, the city approved the first steps in what Mayor David Lansford said would set the current Clovis City Commission apart as a visionary body. After nearly a year of formation, commissioners unanimously approved a master water plan focused on ensuring a 40-year supply of water for the city. The draft includes five a...
CLOVIS — Just like Glenn Frey’s hit song from 1984, the heat is on at the Curry County Administration Complex. Less than a week after the main boiler malfunctioned at the building, located at 417 Gidding, heat has been restored, according to a county news release. The boiler stopped working last Friday morning due to a short that burned the boiler’s circulation motors, according to Facilities Maintenance Superintendent Ben Roberts. The clerk’s, assessor’s and treasurer’s offices and the district attorney’s office were a...
CLOVIS — The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is accepting nominations for its 2017 annual awards until 5 p.m. today. The nomination form can be downloaded from the chamber’s website at clovisnm.org. Annual awards include 2017 Citizen of the Year, 2017 Chamber Volunteer of the Year, 2017 Business of the Year, 2017 Heart Award, the 2017 Ken Huey Patriot Award, 2017 Ambassador of the Year, 2017 Young Professional of the Year and the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. Those nominated should be members of the Clo...
PORTALES — An anonymous tip helped the Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Department quickly recover over $2,500 in stolen property Wednesday afternoon. Heavy emphasis on the quickly part. The tipster said that on Tuesday night, a horse trailer carrying a welder and air compressor was stolen from a property by Portales resident Justin Husted, 43, and was received by Roosevelt County resident Shawn Castaldi, 45, according to Sheriff Malin Parker. The property was reported stolen on Wednesday and recovered at approximately 1 p.m. the...
Booked The following were booked into local jails Wednesday: Clovis • James Dimas, 49, probation violation • Michelle Chavez, 25, concealing identity • Ventura Garcia, 28, probation violation • Brandon Garza, 30, residential burglary • Scott Foster, 42, trafficking controlled substances • Michelle Torres, 41, failure to appear on a felony charge • Victor Herrera, 34, failure to appear at time and place stated in citation • Patrick Sengdara, 20, trafficking (by distribution) • Aaron Garcia, 32, possession of a firearm or destr...
