Gallup Sun

State, local governments agree to provide short-term funding for RMCH

 

Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services is receiving a financial lifeline from state and local government, ensuring that employees will be paid on time and the hospital will have some leeway to get up to date with vendor accounts.

However, it’s not yet clear when Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital will get the first $2 million infusion to guarantee payroll, which would be the first of four installments for that purpose.

A memorandum of understanding laying out the terms is in the works, McKinley County

Manager Anthony Dimas said, and the plan rests on four parties – the state, county, the City...

Council hears plans for drone show

Between severe drought conditions, the pandemic, and a lack of companies offering to provide ffirework shows, the City of Gallup hasn’t had a fireworks show in the past four years despite being deemed the “Most Patriotic Small Town in America’ by map and atlas publisher Rand McNally some years back.

But now a new solution may have come into play: drones.

In an effort to find a bidder early, Gallup’s Tourism and Marketing Director Matt Robinson began trying to find a company who would put on a fireworks or drone show  for the summer holiday about nine months before the Fourth of July. He sent out requests for proposals to multiple firework...

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...