“SPIDERS OR WEED”

Gallup, Sept. 5

A McKinley County Sheriff’s deputy found a man hanging out in a ditch with some drug paraphernalia. He said he had only found it, but he’s now facing charges.

On Sept. 5 while on duty, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Valle met a man named Nathaniel Joe in the ditch next to the SpringHill Suites, which is located at 1025 W. Lincoln Ave.

While Valle was speaking to Joe, 51, he noticed that the man had some aluminum foil with a black burnt-like substance on it. When Valle asked him about it, Joe said he was picking up trash. He was also reportedly holding a small metal pipe.

According to Valle’s report, Joe said he was holding...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has line-item vetoed $2.7 million from the Navajo Nation Council’s Sept. 17 continuing resolution, off-Navajo Nation travel, while retaining funding for veterans, elders, domestic violence shelters and scholarships.

He said the Council’s unprecedented and muddled continuing resolution, Legislation CS-39-24, provides only 50% of Fiscal Year 2024 Comprehensive Budget amounts for some Navajo programs, departments and divisions, while others are funded at 100% for a six-month period, rather than approving the FY 2025 Comprehensive Budget that complies with an established Three Branch Chiefs agreement approach.

“Though this...

SANTA FE  — Sept. 28 is World Rabies Day, a time to raise awareness about the importance of rabies vaccinations.

Rabies kills over 70,000 people a year worldwide, including some 30,000 children, mostly as a result of dog bites. In the U.S., human deaths caused by rabies remain rare, typically occurring only a few times each year. This is due to vaccination efforts and the availability of post-exposure vaccines for individuals who come into contact with potentially rabid animals.

“Before the 1960s, most animal rabies cases in the U.S. were in dogs, but thanks to vaccination efforts, over 90% are in wildlife now,” State Public Health Veterinarian for the New Mexico Department of...

After Facebook posts began popping up saying that local law enforcement had caught the person[s) responsible for online threats about potential school shootings, McKinley County Sheriff James Maiorano III said that information is false.

On Sept. 26 posts started appearing online stating that local police had found and arrested the person allegedly responsible for the online threats.

Mairoano said he believes that rumor may have started when the Gallup Police Department made an appearance at Miyamura High School on Sept. 26. Officers took two boys off a school bus to be questioned about social media posts they wrote.

However, the boys were not the original posters of the threat, and...