ALBUQUERQUE – Harrington Alonzo, 34, of Pinehill, N.M., was sentenced Aug. 31 in federal court to 10 years of custody.

In January, Alonzo pled guilty to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon in Indian Country, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possessing and discharging that weapon as part of the assault.

According to Alonzo’s plea agreement, he committed this crime in Cibola County on April 24, 2019. Alonzo unlawfully assaulted a Navajo Nation police officer by shooting at the officer with a semiautomatic handgun.

The officer was responding to a domestic dispute between Alonzo and his girlfriend.  Alonzo is an enrolled member of...

The FBI has released a poster in the Navajo language to remind the public the agency is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the 2014 death of Amy Lynn Hanson.

Hanson, who lived in Tohatchi, was last seen alive two days before her body was found in an arroyo at State Route 602 and Blue Medicine Well Road in Red Rock, N.M., on the Navajo Nation, on Nov. 30, 2014.

The cause of death was blunt force trauma. Hanson was 25 years old at the time of her death.

The FBI and Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety are investigating.

Anyone with information about Hanson’s death is asked to call the FBI...

Gallup mayor feels disappointed

On the first day of September, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and the Dept. of Finance and Administration announced $150 million in CARES Act grants to local governments across the state to cover the costs brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In applying for CARES Act funds, Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi said he took into account the three city lockdowns, police checkpoints and setting up motel rooms for homeless people being tested for COVID-19.

Bonaguidi told the Gallup Sun Sept. 1 that there was some confusion about how to fill out the request for the grant.

A news release from Gallup City Clerk Alfred Abeita says Gallup requested about $1.7...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer issued a letter on Sept. 2 to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart, reaffirming the Navajo Nation’s position that federal Impact Aid dollars should not be used to address the mandates set forth by the 2018 Yazzie/Martinez court decision that found that the state of New Mexico had failed to comply with its constitutional mandate to provide sufficient education for “at risk” students including Navajo students.

In July 2018, Judge Sarah Singleton ruled that all New Mexico students have a right to be college and career-ready and that the state...