McKinley still carries second highest jobless rate

New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.6 percent in August, up from 6.4 percent in July and 6.5 percent a year ago, according to information from the state Department of Work Force Solutions.

In McKinley County, the unemployment rate for August was 9.8 percent, down from a 10.4 percent rate in July 2016. In neighboring Cibola County, about an hour east of McKinley County, the unemployment rate for August 2016 was 9.1 percent, a slight decrease from a 9.2 percent July rate.

At 9.8 percent, McKinley County has the second highest unemployment rate in New Mexico, and has seen a high unemployment rate for most of the...

ALBUQUERQUE – Dalchimsky Begay, 26, an enrolled member of the Zuni Pueblo who resides in Rio Rancho, pled guilty Oct. 4 in federal court in Albuquerque to a sexual abuse of a minor charge.

Begay was arrested in June 2016, on an indictment charging him with sexually abusing a minor who was between 12 and 16 years of age.

According to the indictment, Begay committed the crime on Feb. 14, 2015, on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County.

During the Oct. 4 proceedings, Begay pled guilty to the indictment and admitted engaging in a sexual act with the victim who was between 12 and 16 years of age and was four years younger than Begay.

At sentencing, Begay faces a statutory maximum penalty...

New Mexico has had seven reported cases of Zika virus. Of those, all seven were in travelers who were infected abroad and diagnosed after they returned home.

The two mosquito species in the United States that can transmit Zika virus have been found in some parts of southern New Mexico. If a person gets infected with the virus while in an area with Zika virus transmission and then goes to a part of New Mexico where Aedes aegypti or Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are present, those mosquitoes could become infected with the virus by biting the infected person and could then spread the infection to other people they bite.

To prevent this from happening, the New Mexico Department of Health...

By Bernie Dotson

Sun Correspondent

A former Gallup resident was arrested Sept. 27 by the Albuquerque Police Department after an incident wherein he attempted to take a 2-year-old from her mother.

According to a complaint filed in Albuquerque District Court, Dustin Sherman, 29, was taken into custody after he tried to take the child from her mother, who was ultimately able to secure the child from Sherman.

Sherman, who has a long arrest record in and around Gallup, was jailed after residents in the Apache Elementary School neighborhood near Cooper Avenue saw Sherman looking in windows at the school and during school hours.

According to police records, Sherman relocated to Albuquerque...