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Gallup Sunrise Kiwanis Club holds doughnut surprise for GCHS faculty

Friday, 10 June 2016 03:02 Staff Reports

For the past two years, the Gallup Sunrise Kiwanis Club has recognized outstanding students each month at Gallup Central High School. These students are chosen by the faculty of GCHS and are honored at the monthly Sunrise-At-Sunset meeting of the Kiwanis Club.

On May 26, Kiwanis members provided a continental...

WEEKLY DWI REPORT

Friday, 10 June 2016 02:59 Staff Reports

The legal limit is .08.

Fernando D. Billsie

May, 29, 2:15 am

DWI, Aggravated

Gallup Police Department Officer Douglas Hoffman saw a blue SUV back into a tree in the Shalimar parking lot in Gallup. When asked, the driver, Fernando Billsie, 27, said he had consumed “too much” alcohol, Hoffman noted in his report. Billsie failed or was too intoxicated to perform field sobriety tests. He was arrested and blew both a .20 and .19 during the breath tests.

Myron Carl Peters

May 28, 1:38 am

DWI, Aggravated

When MCSO Deputy Roxanne King noticed a vehicle unable to stay in its driving lane on Hwy 491, she signaled for it to pull over. Officer Johnson Lee joined King at...

Facebook meet-up leads to alleged rape

Friday, 10 June 2016 02:59 By Babette Herrmann Sun Editor

A teenage girl became the victim of an alleged sexual assault when she reportedly met up with Clayton Russell after chatting with him for about two months on the popular social media site Facebook.

According to a criminal complaint, filed in Magistrate Court June 6 by McKinley County Sheriff’s Department Det. Anthony Ashley, Russell, 20, allegedly raped the teen after an early morning of partying near McGaffey Lake.

The complaint states that the teen girl, “R.Y.”, said during an interview with police that Russell sent her a message, so she snuck out of her house at 1 am on May 30 to meet up with him. She said he was driving a gray, older van and had a friend with him who went by...

Gallup native, mariachi master Antonio Reynas and special guests perform at El Morro

Friday, 10 June 2016 02:57 Photos by NativeStars

Baile Ilusion performed a dance from Veracruz.

The Antonio Reyna concert featured performances by Mariachi Raices De America from Texas.

On June 4, Antonio Reyna performed to a captive audience at the El Morro Theatre in Downtown Gallup.

Obamas to visit Carlsbad Caverns

Friday, 10 June 2016 02:57 By Matthew Reichbach NM Political Report

President Barack Obama will travel back to New Mexico for the first time in years. He will be bringing his family along, according to the White House.

Obama will travel next weekend to Carlsbad Caverns to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service.

On Facebook Thursday afternoon [June 9], the White House announced the travel next week “to Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Yosemite National Park to see the national heritage we’re working to preserve.”

The trip is scheduled for June 17-19. It is not clear if he will travel to Yosemite or Carlsbad Caverns first, and which family members the president will travel with.

NM Political Report has embedded the...