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MMDR Task Force discusses report from BIA MMU

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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The 25th Navajo Nation Council’s Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives Task Force received a comprehensive report from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit on Sept. 12.

The report was presented by Dinah Lee, Acting Regional Agent for Region Three, alongside victim advocacy...

Suspect at Trump International Golf Course charged with firearms offenses

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Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, has been charged by a criminal complaint in the Southern District of Florida with firearms charges related to an incident at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach on Sept. 15.

Routh was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession and receipt of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and made his initial appearance on Sept. 16 before Magistrate Judge Ryon M. McCabe in the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach. A detention hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 23. The investigation remains ongoing.

According to allegations in the criminal complaint, a Secret Service agent walking the golf course perimeter saw...

‘Tito’ Jackson of the Jackson 5 dies in Gallup

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Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the famous group the Jackson 5, died while he was traveling through New Mexico on his way home to Tulsa, OK. He suffered an alleged heart attack and later died at a local hospital.

On Sept. 15, around 6:15 pm, a Gallup Police Officer was flagged down near the American Heritage Plaza located at 702 U.S. Hwy. 791. The officer was informed that a man needed immediate medical attention. The man was identified as Jackson, 70.

Jackson was transported via ambulance to a local hospital, where he later died.

In a press release published on Sept. 16 the Gallup Police stated that investigation into Jackson’s death was still...

Navajo Nation Council avoids government shut down with passage of Continuing Resolution

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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — On Sept. 16, the 25th Navajo Nation Council unanimously approved emergency Legislation No. 0206-24, which will secure a six-month Continuing Resolution to avoid employee layoffs and continue critical government operations beyond the end of the current fiscal year which ends on Sep. 30, if the bill is signed into law by the Navajo Nation President.

“Today’s unanimous vote demonstrates the 25th Navajo Nation Council’s commitment to securing direct services for the Navajo people through continued government operations and preventing any furloughs or layoffs of Navajo Nation employees,” Speaker Crystalyne Curley said. “The 25th Navajo Nation Council remains...

AFT union, UNM hospital agree to resume bargaining

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The University of New Mexico Hospital and United Health Professionals NM division of the American Federation of Teachers, who seek to represent clinical employees at UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center - A Campus of UNM Hospital, have agreed to resume good-faith bargaining that has failed in the past.

During the week of Sept. 2, a New Mexico District Court judge ruled that bargaining should continue between UNM Hospital and AFT, while both parties continue to wait for a ruling on whether PRN (pro re nata) employees, who are temporary, freelance workers, should be included in the bargaining unit. New Mexico law states only “regular employees” can lawfully be included into a...

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