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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A 7-year-old Portales boy died from injuries suffered Thursday afternoon in a one-vehicle rollover crash on N.M. 268 near Curry Road 23, according to the Curry County Undersheriff. Waller said Dakota Myers died at the scene about 4 p.m. He was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by his 19-year-old brother, Kenneth Myers Jr. Kenneth Myers and his sister, Destanee Myers, 4, also a passenger in the truck, were taken to Plains Regional Medical Center for treatment of undisclosed injuries. Waller said the driver told officers they were northbound on N.M.

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A Tucumcari man died and a Flora Vista man was seriously injured in a head-on collision Wednesday morning on N.M. 209 north of Clovis, a Curry County Undersheriff said. Joe Cooper, 76, died around 10:30 a.m. at the scene of the crash near Curry County Road 21, Waller said. Cooper was driving a 1996 Cadillac sedan southbound on N.M. 209 when he crossed the center line and struck a 2014 Ford Focus driven by Wenceslado Ruis, 32, of Flora Vista, according to Waller.