The Diocese of Gallup received an inquiry Sept. 5 from New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, requesting documents and records from the diocese.

In a Sept. 5 press release, the diocese said it looked forward to cooperating with the Attorney General to ensure the safety of all the members of the diocese.

Following an August Pennsylvania grand jury report, the AG’s office is investigating all three Catholic dioceses in New Mexico — Gallup, Las Cruces and Santa Fe — for material related to priest-abuse allegations.

Last month’s report showed that more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused more than 1,000 children over 70 years. The report also revealed that a...

Rosanne Morrissette is back on duty with the Gallup Police Department, working as a school and community liaison as a result of a legal battle to get her job back after she was terminated earlier this summer.

Morrissette’s problems with the police department, according to state court records and her Albuquerque attorney, Thomas Grover, began almost three years ago about the time Robert Cron retired as police chief and Phillip Hart was named as his replacement.

The complaint against Boyd, who was a captain at that time, alleges that he came into Morrissette’s office and yelled at her for several minutes.

When Cron retired, several high-ranking officers decided to retire, too, and...

The U.S. Senate candidate covers marijuana and other campaign topics

Former governor Gary Johnson is running for the U.S. Senate as a Libertarian.

But jumping into the race wasn’t necessarily a planned political move.

“This came as a complete surprise to me, running for the U.S. Senate,” he said to a crowd of about 25 people at Sammy C’s restaurant in Gallup Sept. 10.

The crowd ate appetizers and listened to reasons why they should join the campaign effort.

Johnson said he stepped in to help the Libertarian Party after former candidate Aubrey Dunn, the current state land commissioner, dropped out of the Senate race.

Previously, Johnson said he didn’t want to be in the...

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9/9, Ya-ta-hey

The most the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office could say about what happened to a man on Sept. 9 is that he was injured. How and by whom is still a mystery, as the victim wouldn’t say.

He was found walking along U.S. Highway 491, just south of Yah-ta-hey, at about 2:30 am by MCSO Deputy Jasmine Jaramillo, who noticed his face was covered with lacerations.

When Jaramillo asked what happened, the victim said he came to on the highway after he was beaten by several people he did not know. He refused to say anything more, so Jaramillo called for an ambulance.

Later that day, she called the Gallup Indian Medical Center to do a follow-up interview...