Quay County Sun - Serving the High Plains

The Mescalero Apache tribe told the New Mexico Racing Commission a horse-racing track and casino in Clovis would create a multimillion-dollar effect on its casino near Ruidoso and asked the...

Six Tucumcari residents landed in the county jail on felony complaints after their alleged roles in a fight that included assaults with a baseball bat that hospitalized one person. Tucumcari Police...

These individuals were booked into the Quay County Detention Center Nov. 26-Dec. 3: • Joseph Daniel Cortez, 37, Tucumcari, felony possession of a controlled substance (narcotic drug) and...

Policies related to shrines at the Tucumcari Memorial Cemetery remained unresolved Thursday as the city commission gave final approval to other changes in the ordinance that governs administration...

Tucumcari Mayor Ruth Ann Litchfield on Friday was named to the governor-elect’s transition team on public education issues. Litchfield, a schoolteacher in Tucumcari for 31 years before retiring...

A U.S. senator from New Mexico introduced legislation that would designate Route 66 as a National Historic Trail under the guidance of the National Park Service. Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jim...

These calls were made to the Tucumcari Quay County Regional Emergency Center from Nov. 26 to Dec. 2: Monday • 8:43 a.m.: Damage to property in 600 block of West High Street, Tucumcari. • 9:43...

A water leak in a ceiling forced the temporary closing of Daniel Trigg Memorial Hospital's emergency-room entrance for at least two days. The leak developed in the ceiling above the emergency room...

On this date ... 1968: The state tax commission approved a 10 percent decrease in the appraised market values of county land and improvements, saving county property owners about $2 million under...

The Logan girls basketball team had little trouble during its season-opening game with a 55-36 win Friday at Clayton. Karli Webb led the Lady Longhorns with 18 points, Makenna Brewer added 13, and...

The Tucumcari wrestling team went 3-2 against much-larger schools Saturday during the season-opening Las Lunas Duals. In the victory ledger, Tucumcari defeated Bernalillo 60-17, topped West Mesa...

The Logan boys basketball team fended off a furious Clayton comeback bid to win its season opener Friday on the road, 67-63. Chase Earle scored 19 points for the Longhorns, including a bucket with...

Fox News pundits use “political correctness” as a blanket to cover any opinion they dislike. Progressives are enamored with political correctness, however, and despite my distaste for Fox News...

SANTA ROSA — I’m an optimist by nature, but lately I’ve been having a hard time. Like most Americans, I’m none too pleased with our political leadership. We have an amoral and narcissistic...

It’s fitting that former President George H.W. Bush, whose diplomacy helped end the short Gulf War and the long Cold War, is being remembered in death for words he uttered in his 1988 nomination...

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