Gallup Sun

SANTA FE — New Mexico state health officials announced 1,549 additional COVID-19 cases on Dec. 2.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued the following statement:

“Every single day I pray that New Mexicans infected with this virus will recover. Every single day I pray for the families whose loved ones are battling illness with all the strength they have. My thoughts are always with the doctors, nurses and health care providers who give everything they have to their patients, who selflessly risk their own health to protect their communities and our state. My thoughts are with their families, too, and the families of the first responders and essential workers who, through their...

Donna Tolino

Nov. 5, 1:39 pm

Aggravated DWI (Second)

McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Eric Jim arrived at the site of a one-vehicle crash near 209 Mentmore Rd. Metro Dispatch told him a green Jeep had driven into a ditch by a driver who appeared intoxicated.

At the scene, Jimmet with Deputy Clayton Etsitty, who made contact with the Jeep’s driver, Donna Tolino, 39, of Gallup. She had bloodshot eyes and slurred her speech, and she smelled of alcohol. When Jim asked her what happened, she said she was taking the Jeep on a test drive when the warning lights came on and then things went wrong.

Tolino admitted to having one shot of Sailor Jerry before driving. She agreed to take...

Action taken against over 2,300 money mules in global crackdown

The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and six other federal law enforcement agencies announced the completion of the third annual Money Mule Initiative, a coordinated operation to disrupt the networks through which transnational fraudsters move the proceeds of their crimes.

Money mules are individuals who assist fraudsters by receiving money from victims of fraud and forwarding it to the fraud organizers, many of whom are located abroad.  Some money mules know they are assisting fraudsters, but others are unaware that their actions enable fraudsters’ efforts to swindle money from...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Dr. Jill Jim has been chosen as one of four people to serve on the Biden-Harris COVID-19 Advisory Board. The announcement that the Navajo Department of Health executive director would join the board came Nov. 26.  She was appointed to her position at the Navajo Department of Health by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer at the start of their administration  in Jan. 2019.

“Dr. Jim’s extensive public health experience and expertise has been a major benefit for the Navajo Nation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and now she will serve on a much broader level to help fight this modern-day monster throughout the country,” Nez...