Thursday, July 31, 2003 It's Now U.S. 491, Not U.S. 666 By Leslie Linthicum Journal Staff Writer "The devil's out of here," said Transportation Secretary Rhonda Faught, "and we say goodbye and good riddance." The Devil's Highway. Satan's Highway. The Highway to Hell. In a ceremony here Wednesday, the 190-mile highway that stretches into New Mexico, Colorado and Utah was officially renamed U.S. 491 because of decades of complaints that its satanic 666 connotations spooked the people who live along and drive on the highway and repelled tourists who might otherwise take a trip through Navajo country....