By Dee Velasco

Sun Correspondent

At about 1:30 am early Tuesday morning, the Wells Fargo Bank, 300 West Aztec Ave, alarm was set off by an intoxicated male wielding a fire extinguisher. The suspect, Marcus Spencer, broke four windows in all, and could have easily walked into the bank – but he didn't.

Instead, sources say, Spencer, 26, then made his way across to A Turney's Inc., 207 S. Third St., and broke a window there, reportedly using the same fire extinguisher.

He then headed north down Third Street, breaking several car windows along the way.

Next, he set his sights on the Rex Museum, 301 West Historic Highway 66, and broke out the frontage window with rock and trash can...

Lee: ‘I’m blessed, thankful’

Former McKinley County Manager Bill Lee beat David Dallago, Johnny Greene, Jr., and Gerald O’Hara in the June 7 primary race for the District 3 seat of the McKinley County Board of Commissioners. Lee — county manager for 18 months up until May 13 and now the chief executive officer of the Gallup-McKinley County Chamber of Commerce — garnered 36 percent of the vote.

Dallago finished second with 33 percent. Dallago is a former two-term county commissioner. The seat became available when Tony Tanner decided not to run again.

“I’m thankful and appreciative of the people who backed me and voted for me,” Lee said. Asked if he was...

District 5 candidate says he was ‘wronged’

With the June 7 primary now a thing of the past, and certification occurring this week and some of next, a candidate for the District 5 seat of the House of Representatives spoke out against recently released false information he believes impacted the primary outcome.

Kevin Mitchell — vice president of the Gallup-McKinley County School Board and a former District 5 House candidate — said Melvin Charlie of Gallup wrongfully took to local media Saturday and misrepresented Mitchell’s position on a variety of topics.

“I don’t know this person and I have never met this person,” Mitchell said in a phone interview. “From what...

Las Cruces-based Burrell College to partner with RMCH

Members of Gallup’s business community recently got together over dinner to share in an announcement by the Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital about RMCH taking a path to become a regional teaching unit.

The meeting was held at RMCH’s third-floor solarium May 24, and included people from the hospital’s board of directors, as well as officials from Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine. Burrell is a newly created medical institution and is based in Las Cruces. RMCH and Burrell are engaged in the teaching partnership.

“It’s definitely a positive step for the hospital,” David Dallago, president of the board of...