Former Daily Times publisher and longtime New Mexico newsman Sammy Lopez died Sunday in Albuquerque from complications from a stroke. A native of Jarales, Lopez was a 1973 graduate of Belen High School. He worked in the newspaper business his adult life, serving as the publisher of newspapers in Farmington, Carlsbad, Las Cruces, Ruidoso, Deming and Fort Sumner, as well as the Valencia County News Bulletin.