MacDonald defense rests in bribery trial at Window Rock
Defense for Peter MacDonald Sr and his son rested without calling witnesses. Closing arguments set for Monday as six jurors decide amid charges trimmed by judge. Prosecution argues tribal officials accepted money or gifts constituting bribery while defense cites lack of direct evidence.
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Window Rock
Ariz
Peter MacDonald Sr
Val Jolley
MacDonald
Jolley
MacDonalds
Pat Chee Miller
Mark Donatelli
Donatelli
Window Rock District
Robert Yazzie
Edward Gabriel
Miner, Frazer and Gabriel Public Affairs Inc
Gabriel
Peabody Coal Co
Rocky
South
Kenneth Moore
Peabody
Navajo Nation Sues APS Over Job Cuts at Four Corners Plant
WINDOW ROCK Arizona Navajo Nation and the Navajo Justice Department sue Arizona Public Service Company charging violation of the Navajo Preference in Employment Act. An APS plan to cut up to 75 workers at the Four Corners Power Plant prompts a Nov 7 Phoenix federal hearing on a preliminary injunction. The Office of Navajo Labor Relations found the layoff plan would violate the act and a settlement proposal failed after APS and the IBEW refused to consider it.
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Window Rock
Ariz
Navajo Justice Department
Arizona Public Service Company
Phoenix
Four Corners
APS
Office of Navajo Labor Relations
Tribe sues APS over preference act enforcement in Arizona
The Navajo Nation filed suit in the Arizona federal district court challenging the tribe’s authority to enforce the preference act against APS. The case involves Navajo Labor Commissioners Virgil Kirk Sr Tom Shirley Duane Yazzie Roger Pablo and Helen Bonnaha and Jayne Aspaas director of the Office of Navajo Labor Relations. A Phoenix hearing resulted in a temporary restraining order allowing the nation to file against APS but barring labor commission action before November 7 and prohibiting APS from laying off workers before November 15.
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APS
Arizona Federal District Court
Virgil Kirk Sr
Tom Shirley
Duane Yazzie
Roger Pablo
Helen Bonnaha
Jayne E. Aspaas
Office of Navajo Labor Relations
Shiprock
Phoenix
The
Labor Commission
Church Rock Expands Housing With 40 New Homes
The Church Rock area plans 40 new homes with electricity and running water, funded by a congressionally approved Housing and Urban Development allocation from 1988. Navajo officials gathered for a ground breaking in Sundance as 20 homes rise and work continues on water and electric lines across two sites.
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Church Rock
Navajo Nation
Federal Housing and Urban Development
B. Barton Lee
Sundance
Benjamin Cowboy
The
Navajo Housing Authority
Crownpoint
Dalton Pass
Grey Hills
Cowboy
Hunt Building Co
el Paso
Texas
Navajo Council
Ernest Becenti Jr
Becenti
Bencenti
Ernest
Gallup
Initial maps cut emergency response in western county
Margaret is easier byline indicates the Gallup rural addressing department completed surveying its target area west to the Arizona border and north to the Navajo Nation. County officials say the new maps will affect emergency response times and road naming.
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Margaret
Cubin
Gallup
Kuey County
Arizona
Road Larsori
Henry Moore
Day school tops fix it list in Hopi plan
Hopi Chairman Vernon Masayesva pushes emergency funding to replace dilapidated Second Mesa Day School after engineers condemned it for cracks and a shifted beam. Classes canceled as trailers and vacant housing are readied for interim classrooms while a double-wide arrives within 30 days.
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Mary Wicott
Western Bureau
Second Mesa
Ariz
Vernon Masayesva
Washington, D.C
Bureau of Indiana Affairs
BIA
Office of Facilities Management
Albuquerque
Betty Paymella
Sunday Only 99 WHOPPER With Any Purchase
Burger King Gallup locations offer a Sunday only deal with a 99 cent Whopper when customers make any purchase. Limited to both Gallup outlets. Public notice printed for local readers.
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KING
Gallup
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