Gallup Sun

The New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau is stepping in to investigate after a Gallup Police Officer reportedly shot a man Dec. 10.

According to a NMSP press release, a 21-year-old man from Gallup named Jeremiah Gomez was asked to leave a residence and refused to do so. In an interview with the Sun, Jeremiah’s father David Gibson said his son was trying to get back into the house where he lived.

David said that Jeremiah had spent the day with his mother and drank a couple beers. When he went back home to his girlfriend and their two-month-old baby, his girlfriend reportedly wouldn’t let him into the house and she called the police.

Investigations Bureau agents learned that...

Featured DWI

Jerry Coho

Dec. 11, 3:53 pm

Aggravated DWI (Third)

Urinating in public along the road led to a Ramah man, Jerry Coho, 59, being arrested and charged with his third DWI.

New Mexico State Police Patrolman Merlin Benally was traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 491 when he saw a man standing outside a black passenger car pulled off the north lane urinating toward vehicles that were traveling northbound. Benally turned around as two people  were getting back into the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop near mile marker 3.

He met the driver, Coho, through the passenger window. Coho said his passengers needed to use the restroom so he pulled over to let them...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley expressed disappointment  that amendments to benefit former Navajo uranium workers and their families were removed from pending federal legislation.

They released a statement showcasing their disappointment Dec. 8:

“On behalf of the Navajo Nation, we express our disappointment in the removal of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments from the National Defense Authorization Act,” they said. “This decision is disheartening to the Navajo Nation – a people whose significant contributions helped build America’s nuclear arsenal, secured a victory in World War II...

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the final recipients of funding through the $80 million Rural Health Care Delivery Fund, which was created earlier this year, Dec. 12.

“The Rural Health Care Delivery Fund is making sure that no matter what part of New Mexico you call home, you have access to high quality and affordable health care,” Lujan Grisham said.

The announcement comes on the heels of the initial distribution of $18 million to 11 rural health care organizations.

The newly released list of awardees includes a diverse range of health care services across New Mexico’s rural areas. Each selected organization is slated to receive funds aimed at expanding...