SANTA FE– New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller announced meetings around the state with community members and advocates on sexual assault evidence kits, commonly referred to as “rape kits.” The meetings will take place in the areas that have been selected for the Office of the State Auditor’s audit that aims to...News
Auditor to hold meetings to discuss sexual assault kits backlog; In Gallup tonight
SANTA FE– New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller announced meetings around the state with community members and advocates on sexual assault evidence kits, commonly referred to as “rape kits.” The meetings will take place in the areas that have been selected for the Office of the State Auditor’s audit that aims to...FBI offers reward in hit-and-run near Shiprock
Staff ReportsThe FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the driver responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman on the Navajo Nation on or about April 4.
The Native American woman’s body was found along the south shoulder of the eastbound lanes of U.S. Highway 64, near mile marker 29-1/2, approximately seven miles east of Shiprock.
Evidence at the site indicates the vehicle may have been a 1999-2003 Dodge Ram truck.
The victim’s body was believed to have been at the scene for several hours before being discovered by a school bus driver early on the morning of April 4.
The FBI is not disclosing the victim’s identity at...
Gallup Council approves $470K Allison bridge construction contract
Estimated completion date: Sept. 2017The Gallup City Council unanimously approved a construction management agreement on June 14 that moves the bigger Allison Corridor Project closer to reality. The vote took place at the regular city meeting and none of the council members rejected the replacement initiative.
The vote calls for Bohannan Huston, Inc. — an Albuquerque-based engineering firm — to provide daily oversight services for the building of a new bridge to replace one that was originally built in 1940.
“This is a construction agreement that is part of the actual bridge replacement,” Gallup Public Works Executive Director Stan Henderson told council members. “This is...
Investigator turns up the heat on a decade-old cold case
Sketch of ‘John Doe’ releasedA reconstruction drawing of a murdered man whose bones were discovered in Christmas Canyon a decade ago has breathed new life into a case gone cold.
McKinley County Sheriff’s Office Inv. Merle Bates said although the man’s bones were discovered in early 2006, it appears the homicide took place during the late ’80s or early ’90s.
And he’s hoping to get some help from the public on identifying this John Doe.
According to the police report, on Feb. 13, 2006, Gallup resident Craig Lombard was walking in the area when he noticed bones protruding from the ground in a small arroyo. He initially assumed those were the bones of an animal, but...
McKinley, Cibola unemployment numbers decrease
Officials say decrease is ‘seasonal’New Mexico’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.2 percent in April, unchanged from March and down from 6.6 percent a year ago, officials said.
In McKinley County, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent for April 2016, which is a decrease from March’s 8.6 percent. In neighboring Cibola County — a 55-minute drive from Gallup, wherein Grants is the county seat — the unemployment rate for April was 6.1 percent. That figure was down from a 6.7 percent rate in March.
Monthly unemployment statistics are one month behind, due to the amount of time it takes to compile them.
“It’s definitely good news and it is also something that...
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