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Behavioral health shakeup prompts another call for HSD head’s resignation

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After testimony from officials from three nonprofits that provided behavioral health services that were targeted with fraud allegations but later cleared by the attorney general, a second New Mexico lawmaker called for state Human Services Department Secretary Brent Earnest to resign.

“This is just morally repugnant...

Udall, Heinrich, Luján, secure funding for Farmington airport in FAA reauthorization

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WASHINGTON – On July 15, a provision supported by U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján to secure funding for the Four Corners Regional Airport in Farmington was signed into law as a part of the bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration.

Udall pushed for the provision in the Senate bill, which Heinrich supported, to ensure that Four Corners will be eligible for full Airport Improvement Program funding in fiscal year 2017. After the Senate passed its FAA reauthorization legislation in April, Luján pushed for the provision’s inclusion in any final legislation considered by the U.S. House of Representatives.

AIP is a critical...

Update: NM State Police release name of man killed in police shooting

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Staff Reports

New Mexico State Police Sgt. Chad Pierce released the name of the suspect killed by at least one Gallup Police Officer, shortly before 1 am July 24.

Pierce stated in a news release, issued July 25, that when police arrived at the 300 block of Arnold Street, Alvin Sylversmythe, 29, of Gallup was wielding two knives. Sylversmythe was on the west side of Arnold Street, in the alley when officers confronted him.

"Subsequently, shots were fired by the officers and the suspect was stuck," Pierce noted. "The suspect was immediately treated by EMS and transported to Gallup Indian Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased."

The sequence of events leading up to the officers...

GPD shoot, kill man

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INVESTIGATION TURNED OVER TO STATE POLICE

A Gallup man was shot and killed early Sunday morning by a Gallup police officer. The name of the victim was not released by police nor was the officer who did the shooting.

“There is one suspect,” Lt. Rosanne Morrissette, public information officer at GPD, said. “The investigation is being handed over to the state police.”

Morrissette said a call came in to dispatch about 12:45 a.m. about a disorderly and unruly man armed with a weapon at 304 Arnold St. She said the investigation was put in the hands of the New Mexico State Police as to avoid investigatory bias.

NMSP Sgt. Chad Pierce confirmed in a news release this afternoon that...

Local vets wage two-front war

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Gallup veterans fight to reopen VA Transition Center

Freedom isn’t free. It costs something that can only be paid by those in uniform. Some pay with everything, but what about the veterans who return to the home front? Finished with one war, these veterans often find themselves facing another when they return home.

This is the situation facing local veterans in need of care. The Gallup Veterans Transition Center, at 513 Williams St., stopped receiving new admissions on June 10. The future of the center seemed uncertain at the time of closure, but later reports indicated that the center is temporarily closed due to lack of a full-time nurse on staff.

Some veterans have rolled...

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