WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The 25th Navajo Nation Council held a special session on March 8 and approved an emergency legislation changing the Navajo Nation Primary Election date to July 30.The change will only apply to the 2024 primary election and will not carry over to the next year.

According to Navajo Election Code, the Navajo Nation’s primary elections are held the first Tuesday in August for any year in which a general election is held and at which candidates for public office are to be elected.

On Feb. 8,Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed into law House Bill 2785, changing Arizona’s 2024 primary election date to July 30, which will only apply for this year’s primary...

A man from Red Valley, Arizona has pled guilty to abusive sexual contact  after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old.

According to court documents, Darwin Chee, a member of the Navajo Nation, sexually assaulted the 15-year-old girl  at a residence located within the exterior boundaries of the Navajo Nation on Dec. 30, 2021.

A federal grand jury indicted 53-year-old Chee on Nov. 23, 2022.

Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced on March 12 that Chee pleaded guilty in federal court to abusive sexual contact. Chee will remain in custody pending...

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Louis J Fambrough

March 1, 7:45 pm

Aggravated DWI (Third)

A Gallup man, Louis Fambrough, 50, stopped at a McKinley County DWI Taskforce checkpoint and was arrested and charged with his third DWI.

New Mexico State Police Officer Irvonne Bahe was with NMSP Officer Chaz Troncoso at a Taskforce Sobriety Checkpoint at mile marker 14.9 on State Highway 118. A beige Toyota SUV approached the checkpoint from the west and the officers met the driver, Fambrough.

Bahe suspected Fambrough was impaired because he reportedly showed signs of intoxication including bloodshot eyes, appearing confused as he talked, as well as smelling of alcohol.

Fambrough pulled to the...

A former employee of Bright Future Childcare Center, a childcare facility at the University of New Mexico-Gallup, is facing child abuse charges after she reportedly bit a child.

On Feb. 28 around 4:15 pm, a woman called Metro Dispatch asking to file a report with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office. The woman said her child was abused while under the care of the Bright Futures Childcare Center, located at the University of New Mexico-Gallup, 700 Lions Hall Dr.

The woman said she’d contacted the Gallup Police Department initially, but they referred her to the UNM-Gallup police. McKinley County Deputy Jarad Albert was asked to file a report to give to the campus police.

According...