Police received a call Jan. 4 about a woman found “down and out outside” of a building located on Na’Nizhoozhi Center Inc.’s campus at 506 Frances St., GPD Capt. Marinda Spencer said.

Gallup Police Department Officer Richard Rangel arrived on scene and “checked the female who appeared to be deceased,” Spencer said.

Medical personnel arrived on scene where they confirmed that recently identified Lupina Washburn, 54, of Sheep Springs, was dead.

Her body laid about 30-feet northwest of the Frances Street building, which is listed in several online directories as NCI’s “A Bridge to Recovery” substance abuse rehabilitation services. It wasn’t immediately known if...

Vehicle taken from the Maxwell area

COLFAX COUNTY – On Jan. 9, at about 8 am, New Mexico State Police began pursuit of a stolen U.S. Postal Service vehicle that went missing in the vicinity of Maxwell. The truck was spotted traveling south on I-25 near mile post 429, when it turned around and headed north.

Stop sticks were deployed and Pursuit Intervention Techniques were put into practice, eventually bringing the vehicle to a stop between North 2nd St. and North 1st St. in Raton.

The driver was identified as 34-year-old Chanel Eskleson.  She was booked into the Colfax County Detention Center and charged with:

Unlawful taking of a motor vehicle 30-16-3(A)(1) (4th Degree...

After a little more than a week in his new job, New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions Secretary-designate Bill McCamley, made a major, albeit temporary, rule change for federal employees seeking unemployment benefits because of the ongoing federal government shutdown.

McCamley announced Wednesday that he is temporarily waiving a federally mandated work requirement to receive state unemployment benefits.

“If you file for unemployment, by federal law, you’re supposed to show that you were looking for two jobs a week, and if you get a job and you turn it down, you lose unemployment,” McCamley told NM Political Report on Wednesday evening. “That’s really crappy for an...

Superintendent Mike Hyatt weighs in

ALBUQUERQUE—Judge Sarah Singleton’s most recent order in Yazzie/Martinez v. State of New Mexico makes clear that the court expects a major overhaul of the state’s public school system to bring it into compliance with the constitution and other state laws.

The extensive 600-page “findings of fact and conclusions of law” describes in great detail the need for a multicultural education framework, improved bilingual and English language learner programming, universal and quality full-day pre-kindergarten, sufficient access to extended learning opportunities like summer school and after school programming, social services, smaller class sizes...