Dec. 12, 2025

Bernalillo County – Polls are now open for the 2025 City of Albuquerque Runoff Election. Voters may cast a ballot at any of the 50 voting locations across the city from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. All eligible voters are encouraged to confirm their preferred voting location before heading out and to allow extra time in case of possible lines at busy sites.

“We want every voter to have a smooth experience today,” says Clerk Michelle S. Kavanaugh. “Take a moment this morning to confirm your voting location and make a plan. With fewer locations open for the runoff, planning ahead will help voters avoid surprises or frustration.”

Some Popular Locations Not Open Today

Many high school sites used during the November Regular Local Election are not open for the runoff. The only high school locations open today are:

• Manzano High School
• Sandia High School
• Rio Grande High School

A full list and map of all 50 open locations is available at BerncoClerk.gov.

Voters May Use Any Location

Voters may cast a ballot at any Election Day location in the city, regardless of where they live within Albuquerque. The Clerk’s Office encourages voters to:

• Review the list of 50 open locations at BerncoClerk.gov
• Identify an alternate location if their usual site is closed
• Allow additional time for possible lines at busy locations

Eligibility Reminder

Only voters who reside within the Albuquerque city limits are eligible to participate in the runoff. Voters in unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County will not receive a ballot for this municipal election. Voters can confirm their eligibility at NMVote.org.

Absentee Ballots Must Be Returned Today

Voters who still have an absentee ballot must return it by 7 p.m. tonight. Postmarks do not count.

Absentee ballots may be returned in two ways:

1. Drop off the completed ballot at any Election Day voting location
2. Use an official ballot drop box (locations listed at BerncoClerk.gov)

Please do not mail absentee ballots today as they will not arrive in time to be counted.

Official Results Website

Unofficial results will begin to post shortly after the polls close and the final in-person voter has cast a ballot.

The unofficial results will be posted at: https://results.bernco.gov/.

Results will update throughout the evening as ballots are processed and reported.

For all official election information, including voting locations and absentee ballot guidance, visit BerncoClerk.gov, call (505) 243-VOTE (8683), or email clerk@bernco.gov.

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About Bernalillo County

Bernalillo County is 1,160 square miles and is New Mexico’s most populous county with more than 676,000 residents. Bernalillo County government provides a wide range of public services to residents who live in Albuquerque, Los Ranchos and Tijeras with approximately 106,000 residents living in unincorporated areas of the county. Bernalillo County employs approximately 2,800 people and has an annual operating budget, capital investments and other funds of more than $1 billion. Elected officials include five county commissioners, assessor, clerk, probate judge, sheriff and treasurer

MEDINA, Ohio — Medina Police are still looking for the suspect or suspects involved in Friday’s vandalism at Reagan Park.

According to an email from Medina’s Parks Foreman, Kurt Gehring, one or two cars drove around a gate to a closed-off portion of the park, which he said is not open to vehicle traffic in the winter to avoid situations like this.

“The thing I would like to share most with the community is to speak up when they see something out of the ordinary. Any vandalism that occurs in any park has costs associated,” stated Gehring in an email response.

Gehring said that the field will now be temporarily out of service for awhile, and it will have a ripple effect that could cause potential delays or cancellations in the spring youth sports season.

“The 5–7-year-olds on those teams are the ones that are going to be hurt the most,” stated Gehring in an email response. “Even without tire damage, bringing the fields back into shape in the spring is no small task. While we are addressing this issue, we are diverting resources from other scheduled maintenance areas/ sports fields.”

At this time, Gehring was not able to give News 5 an estimated damage cost because he said a portion of the field is still covered in snow and frozen solid.

He said the city will have to wait until the area thaws out to see how the ground will react to their repair efforts and equipment.

Based on staff time, materials and machinery, Gehring said it will cost anywhere between $1,000 and $1,500 to take care of flattening tire ruts and overseeding in the spring.

“As a best-case scenario, we will have the fields in shape by the end of April. Depending on how wet (of) a spring we have, that may be pushed to the middle of May. If our efforts to flatten the ruts don’t work out as planned, we will need to bring in topsoil to level the field and reseed the area. This will double the cost of the project. In order for the new grass to establish, the field (will be) out of service until July,” stated Gehring in an email response.

Gehring said two other areas in Reagan Park faced a little bit of damage when he said someone purposely drove off the road.

But he said those drivers stayed in the areas adjacent to the roads and did not drive onto any sports fields.

As authorities work to find those responsible, anyone with information is encouraged to contact Medina Police at 330-725-7777.

LUBBOCK, Texas – Dave Campbell’s Texas Football unveiled its 2025 All-Texas College Football Team following championship weekend, with the seven Power Four programs in the Lone Star State accounting for 40 of the 56 players selected. Texas Tech led all programs with eight honorees.

Butkus Award and Bronko Nagurski Trophy winner Jacob Rodriguez was tabbed the Dave Campbell’s Texas Football Defensive Player of the Year, in addition to being selected as one of Texas Tech’s four First-Team All-Texas Defense picks. Joining the standout linebacker on the first team were defensive end David Bailey, defensive tackle Lee Hunter, and cornerback Brice Pollock. That quartet played a key role in elevating the Red Raiders to top-five national rankings in turnovers gained (1st, 31), rushing defense (1st, 68.5 yards per game), scoring defense (3rd, 10.9), total defense (5th, 254.4), and sacks (T-5th, 3.0 per game).

Defensive end Romello Height, an integral part of Tech’s pressure-heavy front, was named to the Second-Team All-Texas Defense. Height recorded 54 pressures this season, according to Pro Football Focus, the seventh most in the FBS. Bailey led all of college football with 74 pressures.

On the offense, running back Cameron Dickey and offensive lineman Howard Sampson were each named First-Team All-Texas Offense, while running back J’Koby Williams was tabbed to the second team.

A total of 56 players were selected, with 28 on offense and 28 on defense. Texas Tech’s eight selections led all teams, followed by seven for Texas A&M, and six for the Texas Longhorns. The six Group of Five programs had a combined 16 players on the list, led by North Texas with six. 

Eddie Robinson and George Munger Coach of the Year finalist Joey McGuire was named the DCTF Co-Coach of the Year alongside Texas A&M’s Mike Elko. Both head coaches have their teams in this year’s College Football Playoff, with the Red Raiders earning the No. 4 seed and the Aggies the No. 7 seed.

DCTF 2025 ALL-TEXAS COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAM (Texas Tech selections)

First-Team All-Texas Offense

RB: Cameron Dickey, So. 

OL: Howard Sampson, Jr. 

First-Team All-Texas Defense

DE: David Bailey, Sr. 

DT: Lee Hunter, Sr. 

LB: Jacob Rodriguez, Sr. 

CB: Brice Pollock, Jr. 

Second-Team All-Texas Offense

UTL: J’Koby Williams, So. 

Second-Team All-Texas Defense

DE: Romello Height, Sr. 

Defensive Player of the Year: LB, Jacob Rodriguez

Co-Coach of the Year: Mike Elko (Texas A&M), Joey McGuire (Texas Tech)

To view the complete 2025 All-Texas College Football Teams, visit TexasFootball.com.

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Cal Poly Humboldt women’s and men’s indoor track and field squads opened the 2025 season with a meet at the Silver State Invitational and Multis, hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno, this past weekend. The Jacks saw three NCAA provisional marks set, one by pole vaulter Michael Payan (16-8.75) and two on the women’s side, Cocome McKamey in the pentathlon (8th out of 22) and Isabel Perez-Zoghbi (2:10.70 seconds in the 800 meters). Two of those marks are likely enough to earn an invite to the national championships in March, according to Lumberjacks head coach Sarah Ingram.

The marks are set as an indication that the individual is in range to go to nationals, not a “golden ticket,” Ingram said. When the time comes for the university to declare athletes it wants to enter for the national championship, they are allowed with a provisional mark. However, there will still only be roughly the top 18 that qualify for the national meet out of those declared, which comes down to a ranked order list of each event. Payan’s mark, Ingram is reasonably confident, will be included, and comes after Payan took fifth place last year at nationals as a freshman, setting a new school record as “we’re expecting big things out of him this year,” said Ingram.

On the women’s side, Perez-Zoghbi has gone previously to nationals indoor in the 800m and outdoors twice for the 400m hurdles, the 800 currently being her focus. Ingram said her mark is probably strong enough to get her in, which Ingram said “is pretty exciting, and obviously both of these athletes are going to continue competing; we have a couple more weekends of indoor in February where they’ll be able to try to better those marks and get them as high as possible on that rankings. Our third athlete, Cocome McKamey, is one of our multi-event athletes indoors with the pentathlon. Her mark met the qualifying threshold, but based on previous years, we don’t expect that mark to be good enough to get in, but based on what we saw at her meet, she’ll be able to hit the marks needed at our next multi opportunity up in Spokane, Washington in February.”

Humboldt is going on its third season in indoor track and field, and “building out some depth in our record book,” according to Ingram. Eight new school records were set in Reno across the women’s and men’s events. Of the women, two freshman had an “outstanding” meet, said Ingram, with “really big personal bests in all their events.” Kelsi Lytle set a new school record in the 60m with a 7.85 seconds and also had p.r.’s in the 200m and 400m, while Caitlyn Dougherty established a school-best mark in the 200m and had personal records in the 200m, 400m (winning her heat at 58.32 secs), and 60m hurdles. She was also on the 4×400 team that set a new school record with Brielle Jimerson, McKamey, and Perez-Zoghbi.

“We’re really expecting a strong 4x400m relay in our next meet as well, and hoping we’ll be able to get a provisional qualifying mark in that event as well,” said Ingram.

Of the men, in addition to Payan’s new school mark, Dylan Ochoa also set a new mark in the 400m, running 49.12 seconds. Collin Friedman had a new long jump record and high jump as well to tie Gabe Bondurant and Alex Dillon in the latter at 1.90m. Joseph Gonzalez not only set a new school record in the shot put, he won the meet outright with a 15.89m, and Isaak Kasso won the 60m hurdles with a mark of 8.50 secs.

“We’ve got a big stretch here where we’re taking a break and not allowed to have official practices during winter break,” said Ingram. “We’re trying to make sure everybody passes their classes, does their finals and enjoys the holidays. And then we come back and start practicing again Jan. 12. Our first meet (of the new year) will be February 5th through 7th in Spokane. We’ll be bringing all event groups and that meet will also have a multi offered as well.”

Finally, she continued, “We had lots of really good stuff this weekend, we’re just really excited to be putting up such strong marks this early in the year, it helps the athletes stay motivated going into that long stretch of winter break with their goal-setting, their training, when they’re kind of on their own time. We’re excited for what this will mean not only for the finish of our indoor season come February and March, but springboarding us into that outdoor season for the whole rest of the spring semester.”