Randall Chee
Feb. 14, 7:00 pm
DWI (Third)
When a green Ford pickup crossed the white dotted line into the left lane at South Third Street and Coal Avenue, Sheriff’s Deputy Terence Willie stopped the driver.
Randall Chee, 25, was behind the wheel. Willie said Chee had bloodshot, watery eyes and slurred speech when he met...
News
Boarding school victims honored
![Twenty-fourth Navajo Nation Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty. File Photo](/images/resized/images/news/2016/330_jul30/10_100_100.jpg)
“This is just one step in the healing journey as we tread lightly to recognize the sensitivity on how we proceed forward,” Crotty said. “We will continue to get direction from our cultural advisors and families.”
The healing event was scheduled after an excavation which revealed multiple unmarked graves of Indigenous children at various residential and boarding school sites across the...
Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World
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Earth’s Hottest Day
The deadly and destructive heat wave baking much of the western U.S. and Canada this month also caused the mercury to soar to record levels in the recurrent hot spot of Death Valley, Calif. Not only did the desert hellhole reach a blistering 54 degrees Celsius on the afternoon of July 9, but two days later it also saw the hottest 24-hour period ever measured reliably. A combination of a morning low of 42.0 degrees and a maximum of 53.7 degrees on that date produced the highest daily average temperature ever recorded on the planet — 47.8 degrees.
Earthquakes
At least five people were killed when a magnitude 5.8 temblor wrecked...
Navajo communities’ human rights case to be heard
![Members of the Church Rock and Crownpoint communities are petitioning to keep the United States and the Canadian mining company Laramide Resources, Inc. from opening four uranium mines. Photo Credit: Courtesy](/images/resized/images/news/2016/330_jul30/8_100_100.jpg)
The petition of a grassroots nonprofit known as Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has been declared “admissible.”
New Mexico Environmental Law Center attorney Eric Jantz says that single word — “admissible” — is a major step forward.
“The take-home here is that the United States has been violating human rights in a context of uranium mining for generations,” he explained. “This is the first time that the state [New Mexico] and the U. S. have been forced to account for those violations.”
The petition alleges that the United States “by its...
Navajo man charged with murder in Indian Country
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According to the indictment, on Dec. 4, 2020, Bob killed a man in McKinley County, N.M., on the Navajo Nation. Bob was arrested in Oklahoma and transported back to the District of New Mexico. He is currently in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for July 30. If convicted, Bob faces up to life in prison.
An indictment is only an allegation. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven...
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