Noon served 23 years with Farmington PD

2019-01-18WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. –  The new Navajo Police Department Deputy Chief was welcomed during a pinning ceremony at the Navajo Nation Museum on Jan. 8.  The new deputy chief is Daryl Noon, who worked his way up through the ranks with the Farmington Police Department.

Born in Fort Defiance and raised in Shiprock, he is Honágháahnii born for bilagáana.  Noon graduated from Shiprock High School and began his 23-year career with the Farmington Police Department not long after.

His field experience includes patrol, SWAT operator, traffic officer, field training officer, training and recruiting, internal affairs and investigation. He was...

Settlement with New Mexico AG brings $1.8 million in debt relief

ALBUQUERQUE – For-profit education company Career Education Corp. CEC has agreed to forgo collecting about $1.8 million in debts owed by 709 New Mexico students, and millions more nationally, in a settlement with New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas and 48 other attorneys general.

The settlement follows an investigation which revealed evidence of unfair and deceptive practices employed at some of CEC’s schools.  CEC agreed to resolve claims against it, but denied the allegations that it:

Used emotionally charged language to pressure students into enrolling in CEC’s schools;

Deceived students about the...

Jan. 31 application deadline looming

ALBUQUERQUE – Families with incomes up to 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level have until Jan. 31 to apply for subsidized child care. The eligibility was restored after a group of parents sued the Children, Youth & Families Department for denying eligible parents access to the service.

Organizers in the Land of Enchantment, a plaintiff in the suit, found the announcement on the CYFD

“Right now, my family is searching for last minute child care because we can only afford $30 for a day for a babysitter on Sunday because both my husband and I work,” OLÉ member Simone Pinero said. “It would have been nice to know that eligibility for child...

THROUGH THE WINDOW

Jan. 5, Gallup

A 30-year-old Pinedale man was charged with aggravated battery after he reportedly threw a rock through a window, hitting a young boy.

Gallup Police Officer Alana Bradley said she was dispatched on Jan. 5 to a residence on Romero Circle, where she met Elvera Curley, 44, and her 13-year-old son who was holding a towel to his head.

Bradley was told that Lester Hosteen Jr., 30, had thrown a rock through the window, hitting her son in the head. Bradley said she saw a bump on the boy’s head. Hosteen, Curley said, was her son-in-law.

Hosteen was located on Fifth Street by another officer. Bradley said she went over there to talk to him. When she got...