Crownpoint News

"We're having families traveling to Crownpoint and Window Rock asking why their children aren't being paid," he said.

The school year at Dzilth-na-o-dith-hle Community School may begin with vacancies in two of the top three administrative positions.

Fireworks explode in the night sky above downtown Gallup as the city celebrates Independence Day in 2005.

Garrett Joe, 22, died Friday, June 6, 2008, in Socorro, N.M.

He was born Nov. 18, 1985, in Gallup, N.M., into the Apache People Clan for the Towering House People Clan.

Garrett graduated from Crownpoint Community School in Crownpoint, N.M., and proceeded onto Crownpoint High School. He later obtained his GED from NTC, formerly known as Cit, where he also tutored his peers.

Upon completion, he was accepted into New Mexico Tech in Socorro, where he had completed his freshman year. He would have continued as a returning sophomore to become a civil engineer.

Larry J. King was one of thousands of Navajo who worked in the uranium mines with little safety equipment.

The three Gamez brothers and their mother who were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a New Mexico Tech student are due to face Magistrate Judge Jim Naranjo on Friday.

Naranjo will decide in a 9 a.m. preliminary hearing if there is enough evidence against them to bind them over to District Court to stand trial.

The charges stem from an incident the night of June 5 at Clarke Field that resulted in the death of Garrett Joe, 22, of Crownpoint. Joe enrolled at Tech in January.

JoAnn Chiquito returned home earlier this year after 10 hours at work to find her home burglarized.

Police investigate the murder scene Friday in Socorro Police in Socorro say the mother of three teenagers helped her sons cover up a murder early Friday.

Joe Garrett died of his stab wounds at the hospital Four people were being questioned late Friday afternoon in relation to the early morning stabbing death of a Crownpoint man.

A New Mexico Tech student has died from stab wounds, and police say his mother and three brothers have been taken into custody.

Socorro police are investigating a murder after a bloody body was found early Friday morning.

Eating uncooked tomatoes bought at Wal-Mart in Farmington or Las Cruces, Lowe's Marketplace in Las Cruces or Basha's in Crownpoint since May 3 is likely the cause of a cluster outbreak of Salmonella that's ...

State officials confirmed Monday the number of illnesses linked to a statewide Salmonella outbreak has risen to 33 people, six of whom are Dona Ana County residents.

The New Mexico Department of Health believes a recent outbreak of Salmonella in the state was likely caused by uncooked tomatoes.

A phone-book-sized document outlines the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's vision for oil and gas development and public-land stewardship in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico for the next 20 years.

“Say no to uranium, say no to sickness.”

Dalenna Long of Crownpoint, N.M., wields her protest signs against uranium mining near her community while waiting outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown Denver yesterday. via Denver Daily News

“What we're trying to do is just take those songs and turn them into whatever subject we're teaching.”

A unique program is helping to bring music into classrooms in the Crownpoint area with 25 educators learning to play acoustic guitar. via Gallup Independent

The Indian Health Services hospital at Crownpoint is curtailing emergency services because of a shortage of technical staff. via KOAT.com

“It does take time to go through the hiring process.”

Emergency services are limited at the Crownpoint hospital until further notice, due to an "acute shortage" of technical staff. via Farmington Daily Times

“I got up the next morning and it was still sitting there”

Socorro's Board of County Commissioners is waiting for a few signatures on an agreement that would allow Socorro County sheriff's deputies and other non-tribal law enforcement officers to patrol on the Alamo Navajo reservation.

Commissioner Stanley Herrera said the agreement to "cross commission" officers is crucial to the Alamo Chapter because crime has become abundant there, and the nearest Navajo Nation police station is over two hours away, in Crownpoint.

"Hopefully we can get something going to get some protection out there," Herrera said. "There's no enforcement because there's no Navajo police station. ... Response time is about two or three hours." Read more