Upright employees: ABOVE: With the departure of the NMSU Aggie's football team from Gallup, Mike Casias and Ryan Harrison move the uprights wider apart Tuesday while preparing for the upcoming high school football season at the Gallup Public School Stadium. LEFT: Casias and Harrison move the uprights wider apart Tuesday at the Gallup Public School Stadium. [Photos by Jeff Jones/Independent]

Rehoboth eighth grader Jaynann Kinsel, 14, left, and fellow Rehoboth students, teachers, administration, and construction workers line the street heading to the Rehoboth Chapel as the hearse carrying the body of Army Chief Warrant Officer Christopher C. Johnson passes by on Thursday afternoon. Chief Warrant Officer Johnson was killed August 14, 2007 in Iraq when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed [Photo by Matt Hinshaw/Independent] Full Story

Harris Francis and Klara Kelley pause from setting up the new exhibit, Legacy of the Dine' Traders, Thursday at the gallery inside the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz. The project, which opened to the public Thursday night, is the result of more than 20 years of research and study into the history of Native American traders and trading posts. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent] Full Story