The Gallup City Council discussed three awards relating to the city’s senior program during their Aug. 24 meeting.

Kimberly Ross-Toledo, coordinator for the Gallup Senior Program, detailed the three contracts to the council.

The first was a COVID-19 CARES Federal Subaward for about $68,488 to provide services until Sept. 30. This award is based on the assessed need of the community and individuals receiving services in accordance with the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, and is meant to support older adults in maintaining independent and healthy lifestyles, and address food insecurity and nutrition.

The second and third contracts are from the Non-Metro Area Agency...

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Marland Lee

Aug. 17, 3:45 pm

DWI (Fourth)

While McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Frank Villa Jr. was on saturation patrol, heading south on U.S. Highway 491 toward Chino Loop, he saw a gray Ford truck fail to stop at a stop sign and turn north onto the highway.

Villa turned his vehicle around and began a pursuit. The suspect vehicle pulled over near the 6 mile marker, where Villa conducted a traffic stop and made contact with the driver, Marland Lee, 32, of Yatahey.

Lee said another truck had been following behind him closely, which is why he did not stop at the sign. Villa noted there was no other vehicle in the vicinity during the incident, and that Lee showed...

A Native American man in his late 50s or early 60s was recently found dead in the parking lot of a Gallup apartment complex.

Gallup Investigations Captain Billy Padavich was called to Cedar Crest Apartments, 220 E. Nizhoni Blvd., around 8:48 pm on Aug. 22 along with several officers.

“When GPD officers arrived, there were a couple bystanders performing CPR on this individual along with one officer,” he said.

Padavich said the incident is being treated as a suspicious death because of physical trauma found on the man’s body.

Medical personnel took the man to a nearby hospital, where he was officially pronounced dead.

The victim had not been identified as of Aug. 24. There is...

Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Eric S. Dreiband, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, confirmed on Aug. 26  that, as indicated in a press conference held earlier in the day by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and Kenosha County District Attorney Michael D. Graveley, a federal investigation has been opened into the shooting of Jacob Blake by an officer of the Kenosha (Wisconsin) Police Department.

The investigation will be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation and other state authorities, and will be...