Helen Radosevich, left, presses her Mardi Gras mask against Lucy Martinelli's face in greeting at a Mardi Gras party at the Little Sisters of the Poor Tuesday afternoon. (Photo by John A. Bowersmith/Independent) Full Story

McKinsley Ericho, cuts a damaged section of guardrail on from the Exit 20 overpass on I-40 Tuesday afternoon while Demitro Trujillo keeps it from falling. The guardrail was damaged when a semi hit it Tuesday morning. It will take the New Mexico Department of Transportation bridge crew from Milan about two days to fix the quardrail. (Photo by John A. Bowersmith/Independent) Full Story

Navajo Nation council speaker Lawrence Morgan watches as Navajo Nation president Joe Shirley Jr. lifts up a block of FlexCrete, an alternative building material that weighs only 20 percent of a comparable size piece of concrete block. The president and speaker toured the new production facility Tuesday afternoon in Page, Ariz. (Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent) Full Story