Melt down: Melting snow creates wet roads Thursday which vehicles travelling along Hwy 264 spray up into the air near the P&M Coal mines in the Black Hat area. As temperatures dropped Thursday evening the same wet patched turned to ice and created some slippery spots on the road. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent]

Mary Boyd Ellis opens her art show, "Ash Wednesday" this Saturday, February 9, 2008 at the Gallup Performing Arts Center Gallery. The gallery is at 1500 South Second Stret in Gallup, N.M. and will be up until March 23, 2008. Ellis took three years to complete the series based ont the T.S. Eliot poem "Ash Wednesday." While speaking about her work, Eliot said, "I don't care if I have alot of money...I love to paint." [Photo by Daniel Zollinger/Independent] Full Story

A van goes up in flames outside the McKinley County Courthouse Thursday morning in Gallup, NM. The owner of the van, Chris Lopez explained that he was in court when the fire began and returned to the vehicle for paperwork when he found it up in flames. Lopez sells items from his vehicle along roadsides and said, "Everything I have is in there." The cause of the fire is under investigation. [Photo by Daniel Zollinger/Independent]

Raging Warriors: A Tuba City Warriors basketball fan runs around the court during a break in the action in the final minutes of Thursday night's 3A North semi-finals basketball game at the Wildcat Den in Chinle, Ariz. The Monument Valley Mustangs fought their way to a 55-55 tie before defeating the Tuba City Warrior 70-61 in overtime [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent]