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New Mexico State Police officer James Jenkins handcuffs suspected drunk driver Alfredo Hammitt after he refused to comply with field sobriety test instructions Monday night near the intersection of Sixth Street and Logan Avenue in Gallup. After handcuffing Hammitt officer Jenkins discovered a can of beer in his jacket pocket. Hammitt was driving with a revoked license and had two adults and two children in the car when he was arrested on New Year's Eve, and faces several felony charges. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent] Full Story


While New Mexico State Police officer James Jenkins talks to the other two adults who were riding in a car, a young boy who was riding in the back seat looks back at the patrol car where Alfredo Hammitt sits in custody after being arrested for drunk driving on Sixth Street and Logan Avenue in Gallup. Jenkins' final DWI arrest for 2007 was number 159 for him for the year. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent] Full Story


The best news photo of the year selected by photographers was taken by Indepenent photographer Daniel Zollinger. Hono Rato holds his daughter Jennifer Rato while waiting to participate in the night parade of the 86th Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in downtown Gallup N.M. Rato is an Aztec dancer from Veracruz, Mexico and imagines his daughter carrying on the dancing tradition. [Photo by Daniel Zollinger/Independent]


This photo by Independent photographer Brian Leddy was selected by photographers as the feature photo of the year. Charlie Williams, a resident of Canton, Ga. working in Gallup, takes a drag off a cigarette at the El Rancho Hotel on Monday evening. As of this past Friday, New Mexico joined neighboring Arizona, Colorado and Utah and 16 other states that have enacted smoking bans in restaurants, bars, indoor workplaces and public places. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent]

Wednesday
January 2, 2008
Selected Stories:

A look back ... ; The Independent's top stories of 2007

Soldier returns from Iraq; Woman's 20 years in military ends May 1

New Mexico offers free radon kits

No tolerance for drunken drivers; 'Could you please step out of the car?' heard on New Year's Eve

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