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GANADO, Ariz., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sage Memorial Hospital announced today that it expects its profitability to be near breakeven for FY2007. The breakeven results are attributed to Morgan and Associates' design and implementation of a turnaround plan, which offsets the $1.8 million loss projected earlier this year. "The leadership and efforts of Mr. Morgan, Mr. Razaghi and their dedicated team of professionals have saved our hospital from the brink of bankruptcy," stated Tomicita...
By JENNIFER DOBNER SALT LAKE CITY - For nine years, the question has echoed across the high desert of southeastern Utah, hard against the corner where four states meet. Where is Jason McVean? McVean, one of three fugitives who stole a truck and shot and killed a Colorado police officer, was never found despite a search in 1998 that lasted weeks on foot, horseback and from the air in hot, rocky, canyon country. The question finally was answered last week when the Utah medical examiner's...
By Staci Matlock, The Santa Fe New Mexican Oct. 26--If you know someone who possesses the secret to snagging kokanee salmon, invite them to lunch and arm-twist it out of them. Such secrets could be worth up to $1,000 in prizes at Heron Lake State Park's second annual Salmon Snagging Derby on Nov. 10, which also is the opening day for salmon snagging on Heron Lake. The derby starts at 7 a.m., and Park Superintendent Anthony Marquez reports the lake is full of salmon. Prizes will be...
By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - The highest-level U.S. delegation to visit Cuba since Fidel Castro handed over power left the island on Wednesday with a historic deal on trade between the communist country and a Navajo agribusiness but no message for Washington. New Mexico Rep. Tom Udall, a Democrat, said his delegation had met neither the ailing Cuban leader nor acting President Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's younger brother. "If they had wanted to talk I would have been willing to do...
By David SchwartzPHOENIX -- The Navajo tribe on Thursday protested a U.S. federal judge's ruling that clears the way for an Arizona ski resort to make artificial snow using reclaimed wastewater on a mountain sacred to several Native American tribes.The Arizona Snowbowl ski resort, located about 150 miles north of Phoenix, plans to expand and says the artificial snow is crucial to its economic survival.A decision late on Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Rosenblatt would allow a $25...
Its use in religious practices deemed safe by Harvard-affiliated researchersIn an example of modern science catching up to ancient wisdom, researchers have found that Native Americans who use peyote as a regular part of their religious practices show no evidence of brain damage or psychological problems.Quite the contrary, these individuals scored higher on several indicators of mental health than members of the same tribe who did not use peyote and who were not members of the Native American...
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - Famed Navajo artist R.C. Gorman, sometimes referred to as the Native American Picasso, died on Thursday at the age of 74, a spokesman at the University of New Mexico Hospital said. His agent, Virginia Dooley, said on the artist's gallery Web site (http://rcgormangallery.com) that for more than a month he had battled "a virulent blood infection and pneumonia, among other issues, and finally lost his battle." Rudolph Carl Gorman was best known for his...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Affirming the sovereign powers of American Indian tribes, a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled the Navajo tribe may prosecute American Indian activist Russell Means even though he is not one of its members. Means, a member of the Oglala-Sioux Tribe of Indians and one the best known American Indian activists, had sought to prevent the Navajo Nation from criminally prosecuting him for an incident on the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo Nation wants to press...
