Crownpoint News

Criminals at Navajo holding facilities like this one in Kayenta, Ariz., are usually released within a day of being booked.

Reporting from Tuba City, Ariz. - More than 50,000 people are arrested across the Navajo reservation each year -- yet there are only 59 jail beds here.

Gallup Police are investigating another stabbing, which took place early Sunday at Hillcrest Trailer Park.

Drunk driving deaths in McKinley County aren't new, but people are fed up after seven suspected DWI deaths in just the last five months.

"Hilos de Tradicion: Blankets of Chimayo" Hilos de Tradicion showcases Spanish-American weavings from Northern New Mexico.

The New Mexico Activities Association's final version of its realignment plan for high school athletics, released Wednesday, moved longtime Class 3A school Bloomfield High into the larger 4A classification beginning in the 2010-11 school year.

Miss Michigan winner and National High School Rodeo Association crown contestant Amanda Jo Johnson, 16, leads her horse, Bud, to the stables Thursday after checking in at McGee Park for the National High School Finals Rodeo.

Matthew Martin was the fourth Code Talker to die in as many weeks. WINDOW ROCK , Ariz.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Another Navajo Code Talker dies Matthew Martin, who was part of the elite team of Navajo Marines who transmitted sensitive military information using their native language during World War II, died Saturday in Crownpoint, N.M., at the age of 84.

Last Wednesday, Marilyn Frank and her children traveled from their home in Aztec to land they own in Nageezi to check on their free-range horses.

Research support for this article was provided by the Puffin Foundation Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.

Lacey Becenti had four show lambs in the trailer as she waited in line to get the lambs ear-tagged Saturday morning at the Bi-County Fairgrounds in Prewitt.

Norman Silargo, 47, of Standing Rock, N.M., learned that first-hand May 23 when he and a fellow worker at the Crownpoint Mustang Store had to cope with four men who rushed into the store about 4:30 a.m. and proceeded to beat him up and steal merchandise.

Din College's commencement exercise is not like most. For starters, a ceremonial fire is kept burning during the ceremony, and the event doesn't end until traditional practitioner and faculty member Avery Denny sings a Din Journey Song.

A 37-year-old woman allegedly ran over her 6-month-old son May 2, while driving drunk.

TOP PHOTO: Lacey Smith, of Pinedale, N.M., gets a handshake from her canine buddy Butch, a 3-year-old Red Heeler/sheep dog mix, in the trick competition at the All-Mutt Dog Show April 18 in Crownpoint.