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Fishing Report

SOUTHEAST FISHING REPORT Alto Lake: Evacuation orders in the Ruidoso area have been lifted, but please continue to exercise caution. Bataan Lake: Fishing for catfish was slow to fair when using chicken liver and dough bait.

2024 TRUCK SERIES STANDINGS

1 Christian Eckes #19 673 2 Corey Heim #11 623 3 Ty Majeski #98 538 4 Nicholas Sanchez #2 537 5 Rajah Caruth #71 467 6 Tyler Ankrum #18 460 7 Grant Enfinger #9 454 8 Taylor Gray #17 425 9 Ben Rhodes #99 399 10 Tanner Gray #15 382 11 Daniel Dye #43 377 12 Stewart Friesen #52 366 13 Matt Crafton #88 339 14 Chase Purdy #77 338 15 Dean Thompson #5 311 16 Layne Riggs #38 307 17 Jake Garcia #13 300 18 Bayley Currey #41 273 19 Ty Dillon #25 268 20 Bret Holmes #32 258 NEXT RACE: CLEAN HARBORS 250, Richmond Raceway, 7:30 p.m. ET Saturday, Aug.

2024 XFINITY SERIES STANDINGS

1 Cole Custer #00 761 2 Justin Allgaier #7 705 3 Austin Hill #21 674 4 Chandler Smith #81 661 5 Riley Herbst #98 618 6 AJ Allmendinger #16 609 7 Jesse Love #2 587 8 Sheldon Creed #18 576 9 Parker Kligerman #48 553 10 Ryan Sieg #39 510 11 Sammy Smith #8 507 12 Sam Mayer #1 502 13 Shane v Gisbergen #97 500 14 Brandon Jones #9 441 15 Anthony Alfredo #5 396 16 Brennan Poole #44 353 17 Parker Retzlaff #31 317 18 Josh Williams #11 309 19 Jeb Burton #22 286 20 Leland Honeyman #42 277 NEXT RACE: CABO WABO 250, Michigan International, 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday, Aug.

2024 CUP SERIES STANDINGS

1 Kyle Larson #5 749 2 Chase Elliott #9 739 3 Tyler Reddick #45 734 4 Denny Hamlin #11 706 5 Ryan Blaney #12 676 6 William Byron #24 654 7 Martin Truex Jr #19 653 8 Christopher Bell #20 651 9 Brad Keselowski #6 615 10 Alex Bowman #48 606 11 Ty Gibbs #54 587 12 Chris Buescher #17 562 13 Ross Chastain #1 552 14 Bubba Wallace #23 545 15 Joey Logano #22 525 16 Chase Briscoe #14 469 17 Daniel Suárez #99 460 18 Kyle Busch #8 440 19 Austin Cindric #2 438 20 Todd Gilliland #38 434 21 Michael McDowell #34 404 22 Josh Berry #4 388 23 Noah Gragson #10 383 24 Carson Hocevar #77 383 25 Ricky Stenhouse Jr #47 375 26 Ryan Preece #41 329 27 Erik Jones #43 329 28 Corey LaJoie #7 324 29 Justin Haley #51 319 30 Daniel Hemric #31 316 .

Two state police officers survive lightning strike

Looking back 40, 30 and 20 years ago, the following are excerpts from the Artesia Daily Press. 40 years ago July 21-27, 1984 Part of the Grand Entry ceremony prior to Friday’s performance of the 1984 Pioneer Days Rodeo involved a display of the colors, as seen here, held aloft by a representative of Baca Brothers, stock managers for the rodeo.

Family Time

SENMC A college or university may be referred to as one’s alma mater. This Latin phrase meaning “nourishing mother” was first used in the 1600s, later giving rise to the use of “alumni” to describe someone who attended a higher education institution.