Gallup Sun

The Gallup-McKinley Community Schools district has something to celebrate after a judge ordered the State of New Mexico to make sure at-risk students have access to the internet.

During the May 3 GMCS school board meeting, Superintendent Michael Hyatt announced that the judge had decided in favor of New Mexico schools on April 30. He explained that the state would finally be in charge of providing students with technology.

“The pandemic really illuminated the problem we faced as a school district with adequate funding for such things as technology in the classroom; devices and those types of things that we need to not only provide a sufficient education – but during a pandemic...

When Deputy Johnson Lee from the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office  pulled over a car on April 13, he found over five pounds of marijuana and 150 edibles.

It was around 10:30 am when Lee was traveling east on Interstate 40. He spotted a silver Mitsubishi Eclipse tailgating a semi-truck transporting fuel around the 27.5-mile marker.

He conducted a traffic stop and approached the car on the passenger side. When the passenger rolled down the window Lee could smell marijuana.

He asked the driver for his license, registration, and insurance. The driver was Larry Hunt, 46 of Glen Heights, Tex. Hunt told Lee the car was a rental, and the passenger was getting the registration and...

Could 6-year-old with a BB gun be the culprit?

A Yatahey couple came back from church to find the rear windshield of their SUV had been shot with a BB gun.

On April 11 around 1:30 pm McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. arrived at #13C Ark Hill in Yatahey, N.M. to meet with the owners of the car.

The damaged vehicle was a 2018 Jeep Cherokee. The rear windshield was shattered.

The woman pointed out where a pellet had hit the bottom of the windshield. The pellet was on the ground underneath the Jeep. Davis took pictures of the windshield and the pellet.

The man said he discovered the damage around 1:00 pm. He said the last time he had seen the vehicle had been on April 9...

A Gamerco woman got into a fight with a Gamerco Water and Sanitation Department employee after she became frustrated with a leak in her house.

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. arrived at #708 Portal Street in Gamerco on April 27 around 2:17 pm. When he arrived he saw two women arguing.

According to his report, he spoke first to Belinda Rios. She explained that she had a leak in her house and that she’d been having trouble getting in contact with the Gamerco Water and Sanitation Department. She said that when she would call the department a woman named Maggie, later identified as Magdalena Garcia, would hang up on her.

Rios had decided to go to the office in person...