50 Years Ago: Police show up for duty, no disruptions during fair
The Navajo Tribal Fair has come and gone with no disruptions. All members of the Navajo Police showed up for duty at their assigned times.
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Court Report: Fruitland man sentenced for beating woman to death
John Youngblood Lodgepole was sentenced last week by a federal district judge in Albuquerque to seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of a woman who had been drinking beer with him.
Read More50 Years Ago: Unity in police demands for higher pay, overtime called into question
For the past two weeks, the big story on the Navajo Reservation was efforts by members of the Navajo Police Department to give officers a 25% increase in pay and to start paying overtime.
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50 Years Ago: Navajo Police walk off, demand better pay
Sick of the low pay and being required to work 20 to 30 hours of overtime, members of the Navajo Police did what they threatened to do – walk off their jobs as a protest to conditions they had to face daily as tribal police officers.
Read More50 Years Ago: Navajo Police list 17 demands to improve jobs
It had never happened before in the tribal government. Members of the Navajo Police Department held a press conference about the “deplorable” conditions they must put up with to protect residents of the reservation.
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Window Rock Weather
Fair
41.0 F (5.0 C)
Dewpoint: 30.0 F (-1.1 C)
Humidity: 65%
Wind: calm
Pressure: 30.19
Dewpoint: 30.0 F (-1.1 C)
Humidity: 65%
Wind: calm
Pressure: 30.19
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow