On Oct. 24, officers of the Gallup Police Department responded to the area of 173 E. Highway 66 around 9:51 pm, in reference to a deceased female.
The Detective Division of the Gallup Police Department was notified to investigate.
As a result of the investigation, it was determined that a Native American female had died as...
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Land swap receives bipartisan support
The New Mexico State Land Office and the U.S. Department of the Interior are working out the details on a land trade involving more than 120,000 acres in the state, including some lands within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and the Sabinoso Wilderness.State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn announced this week that the federal government approved an agreement to transfer 43,000 acres of state-owned lands and mineral leases within the monument and the wilderness to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
In return, New Mexico will gain about 78,000 acres in 13 counties from the BLM.
Of the state trust lands “locked” within the national monument, Dunn said 25 percent...
Humane Society’s intake problem
Scores of unwanted pets brought in dailyDog and cat lovers, your attention please.
Love of both animals, and their adorable litters of puppies and kittens, has resulted in the obvious pet overpopulation problem plaguing McKinley County and the Navajo Nation, where an estimated 250,000 unwanted dogs roam.
No entity here locally has been able to euthanize its way out of the problem.
But, there is a solution to this madness.
And it begins with pet owners spaying and neutering their pets. It’s a problem that the public can’t see from the outside of an animal shelter, but it’s the never-ending faucet that doesn’t shut off for shelter workers dealing with the scores of...
ATF offers reward for stolen guns
In a report released Oct. 17, the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms industry, has announced a combined reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the theft of firearms from Zuni Mountain Pawn, a federal firearms licensee located in Thoreau, N.M.McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Inv. Anthony Ashley said McKinley County Crime Stoppers has added another $1,000 to the pot, bringing the total in reward monies to $6,000.
As reported in an August issue of the Sun, an unknown suspect burglarized the pawnshop and stole 13 guns. Nine of...
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