Two children suffered injuries

ALBUQUERQUE – A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned an indictment Aug. 15 charging Eli Frank Woody, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., with federal assault and firearm charges arising out of a July 18 drive-by shooting that injured two Navajo children.

The three-count indictment charges Woody with two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury to a child, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.

According to the indictment, Woody assaulted and seriously injured two minor children on July 18 in McKinley County, N.M. The indictment also alleges that Woody used and...

Pedophile currently in jail for violating probation in Colo.

Following the Gallup-McKinley County Schools Board of Education meeting Aug. 6, Judith Goins, criminal investigators administrative assistant for McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, was inundated with phone calls about one of the meeting attendees.

Goins received nearly two dozen calls regarding the status of Guy Priel, 53, of Woodland Park, Colo., and what he was doing at the GMCS meeting. Goins said those callers suspected Priel might be a sex offender.

After some research on OffenderWatch, the software program used by the State of New Mexico to register sex offenders, Goins verified Priel was a registered sex offender in...

Twenty-six make the list

Plans for McKinley County infrastructure for 2021-2025 were the subject of the Aug. 20 meeting, with Evan Williams addressing the Board of Commissioners. Williams, of the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments, has been working with McKinley County staff on the Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan for several months.

The plan was last brought before the Board of Commissioners at their July 30 meeting.

“The State of New Mexico wants to know what infrastructure and facilities are out there, and get a number [cost] attached to it,” Williams said July 30.

At that time, Williams said the funding sources need to meet a number of requirements through...

How it affects Rocky Mountain patients

Planned Parenthood services in the Rocky Mountain region will be affected by the organization’s recent withdrawal from the Title X program. But not in the same way as in many other states.

When the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the request by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the American Medical Association to suspend the Trump-Pence Administration’s Title X Gag Rule, PPFA said all affiliates participating in that program will withdraw, because it is impossible to comply with the rule and continue to provide ethical, complete medical care at the same time.

Planned Parenthood believes it is critically important for...