Tuba City News

A Tuba City man has been charged with second-degree murder in a stabbing on the Navajo Nation last month.

People can pick pumpkins for a purpose this month at New Hope Assembly of God. The church, located south of Smith Ferry Road on U.S. 64, is selling all sizes and shapes of pumpkins and other gourds to raise money for an annual mission trip.

Speaking of competency: This doctor not only deserves to lose his license to practice medicine, he should be indicted.

The incident happened when vendors ignored a notice to cease selling food at a location not officially approved by the chapter.

2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of art had the biggest influence on you and why? In college I worked as a preparator at the Henry Art Museum an the University of Washington.

By Greg Perkins The Holbrook volleyball squad won both matches played during Homecoming Week, picking up non-region wins over Greyhills and Alchesay, then fell to defending state champion Monument Valley in both ends of a Saturday doubleheader.

From around 1996.] An overhead slurry line from the giant strip mine on Black Mesa crosses the road midway between Kayenta and Tuba City, Arizona.

By Greg Perkins The Holbrook boys' cross country team posted a very reputable 11th place finish in the 29-team field of the Four Corners Invitational Meet held last Saturday in Flagstaff.

In the initial round of stimulus funding, $125 million was appropriated for tribal jails but Navajo officials said that all went to other tribes.

Just after formulating the lofty generalization of an American propensity for wandering in search of opportunity, untethered to any particular geography, I met someone who reminded me that the nation's cultural mosaic represents a vibrantly intricate pattern not easily defined with such broad absolutes.

The dispatcher reported that the woman was hysterical and crying on the phone, pleading with police to come and help her son, Hinton William Jr., no age given, of Cameron, Ariz.

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The rules are simple: The contestant who spits a pit from a chilled Montmorency cherry the farthest on the asphalt surface wins.

Evelyn James, 54, of Tuba City, and a tribal council member of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona, pleaded guilty Wednesday to false statements, theft from a tribal government receiving federal funds and money laundering, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

One of the leaders of a northern Arizona Indian tribe has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 in tribal funds.

Almost time to spit some pits. Yes, it's early July, when cherry pits are spat, some for surprisingly long distances, at the Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World.

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A Navajo woman is hoping to carve a niche for American Indian clothing in Chicago.

Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Yavapai County sheriff's deputies caught two Phoenix men wanted in connection with the robbery and kidnapping of a Tuba City man in the parking lot of a Flagstaff Wal-Mart an hour earlier.

The following is a press release from the Coconino County Sheriff's Office: On June 8 at approximately 11:00pm a Tuba City man was kidnapped and robbed at gun point from the Walmart parking lot in Flagstaff.