Navajo, NFL team owner pal around

GLENDALE, Ariz. – The president of the country’s largest Native American reservation appears to be a supporter of the NFL team from Washington, D.C.

Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, wearing a cap representing the team, was seated next to team’s owner Dan Snyder as the team played the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday in Glendale.

The president’s spokesman, Deswood Tome, says Shelly was there to discuss an NFL franchising agreement involving Navajo artists.

Tome says Shelly believes challenges for the Navajo, such as education and job creation, take “far more precedence more than a mascot name.”

Fallen firefighters honored in Maryland

EMMITSBURG, Md. – More than 100 names of firefighters who were killed in the line of duty have been added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Maryland.

Among the 107 firefighters honored were 19 Arizona firefighters killed in a 2013 canyon fire and 10 first-responders killed in a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas last year. Ninety-eight of the firefighters honored died in 2013. Nine died in previous years.

Associated Press