A phone call came into Gallup Police Department Oct. 8 stating there was a male who was unresponsive outside Home Depot, 530 Kachina St.

Officers arrived at the scene near 4 pm and discovered the male, who was later determined deceased.

The identity of the male is Roger Teller, 62 of Chinle, Arizona. Gallup Police stated there is no suspected foul play.

A 53-year-old Gallup man was arrested and charged with trafficking methamphetamine Oct. 8 after Gallup Police narcotics agents, detectives, and officers served a search warrant at 405 McKee Dr.

The warrant was related to an investigation into the alleged trafficking of methamphetamine, a second-degree felony.

Mohammed F. Uweis was taken into custody for both the second-degree felony and a fourth-degree felony — possession of Fentanyl, as well as an outstanding bench warrant.

Uweis was booked into the McKinley County Adult Detention Center.

President Joseph R. Biden nominated Shelly Lowe to be the 12th Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Shelly C. Lowe is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and grew up on the Navajo Reservation in Ganado, Ariz.. She is currently a member of the National Council on the Humanities, the 26-member advisory body to NEH, an appointment she received from President Barack H. Obama.

Lowe’s career in higher education has included roles as Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program, Assistant Dean in the Yale College Dean’s Office, and Director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University.

Prior to these positions, she spent six years as the...

Women’s Health Unit closes, temporarily

RMCHCS is losing doctors and they’re not asking why.

Dr. Hannah Palm, who has been at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services for less than a year, said she didn’t feel safe or heard. She believed the hospital was not well-staffed on the nurse or physician side in order to provide safe patient care, and found it difficult to work with the current administration.

When she announced her plan to leave, she said she was reminded of the lack of support she experienced previously at the hospital, by the actions of a single member of the administration, the only one who talked to her about it, who called her decision a “bummer,”...