Over easy: Rachel Henderson, right, with the Gallup High School Key Club passes out some sausage to Robert Broadbent, left, Sunday morning at the Annual Kiwanis Superbowl Pancake Breakfast held at Jefferson Elementary School. The price for breakfast was only $4 and all the money raised from the event goes to serve the youth of the community. [Photo by Matt Hinshaw/Independent]

A New Mexico State Police Officer wearing swat team gear gets ready about a half mile away from the Z Lazy B Ranch south of McGaffey on Monday afternoon. An unidentified man was reportedly wielding a high power rifle and he was barricaded inside a cabin at the ranch threatening to kill himself causing a standoff with police. [Photo by Matt Hinshaw/Independent] Full Story

Art is fun!: Navajo artist B. Emerson Kitsman gives second graders Dennison Cadman, right, and Alen Ponce pointer on working with water color paints during a workshop Monday at Stagecoach Elementary School in Gallup. Kitsman and Joseph Jenike are teaching a week-long series of workshops on print making, drawing and watercolor painting as part of the Arts Based Learning Enhancement program, a state funded project to study the effects of art on student's academic performance. [Photo by Jeff Jones/Independent]