WINDOW ROCK — The Navajo Nation welcomed Autumn Montoya as the 2018-2019 queen when she was crowned Sept. 8 at the Fighting Scouts Event Center.

At the coronation ceremony, President Russell Begaye congratulated Montoya for earning the title of 2018-2019 Miss Navajo Nation, stating that he looks forward to her reign.

“We are looking forward to learning more about her platform and what she wants to achieve,” President Begaye said. “The Office of the President and Vice President will be there to help her accomplish those goals and dreams she has for the Nation.”

Begaye presented outgoing 2017-2018 Miss Navajo Crystal Littleben with an honorary Pendleton blanket for...

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health recommended Sept. 10 that certain persons who received any type of injection related service, including a vampire facial, at the VIP Spa, located at 809 Tijeras Avenue, NW Suite B, Albuquerque, visit the Midtown Public Health Office located at 2400 Wellesley Ave. NE in Albuquerque this week, from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C lab testing and counseling.

“It is very important that anyone who received a vampire facial or other injection related service at the VIP Spa in May or June of 2018 come to the Midtown Public Health Office for free and confidential lab testing and counseling,” NMDOH Cabinet...

By Bill Donovan

A Gallup man, wanted on multiple felony warrants, was arrested Aug. 30 at his residence on West Wilson Avenue.

Frederick Alan Lewis, 60, was arrested without incident.

The request for Lewis’s arrest came earlier that day from Joshua Lynn, a member of the Human Traffic Task Force within the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office. Lynn reported that Lewis should be regarded as “armed and dangerous.”

Lynn informed the police that Lewis, according to information that came from the state’s motor vehicle division, was residing at a house on West Wilson Avenue.

He currently has three outstanding felony warrants — human trafficking, aggravated assault with a deadly...

By Bill Donovan

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.

Apparently, Franklin Boyd, who was a captain at the time, came into Morrissette’s office at police headquarters and yelled at her for several minutes. Morrissette later filed a complaint against Boyd for his...