2020 - The Standard Newspaper

Candidate meet and greet slated

Pam Wanner6 years ago1 mins

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The London Bridge Republican Women will host a Meet and Greet for Mohave County and Lake Havasu City candidates at Shugrue’s Bridgeview Room on July 6 at 4 p.m. Candidates will be provided a microphone to deliver a short dialogue on their background and why they feel they are qualified to be an elected official. Light refreshments will be served. To register to attend as a candidate email cookies7880@yahoo.com. The group will also hold their general meeting on the same day at 6 p.m. Guest speakers will be Lake Havasu City Council candidates. The menu is…

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Meth powder decorates interstate; driver enters plea

Pam Wanner6 years ago2 years ago2 mins

KINGMAN – The driver of a moving vehicle from which pounds of methamphetamine were tossed onto Interstate 40 during a police chase entered a plea agreement Monday. Guadalupe Astorga, 44, Tulare, California is being convicted of transportation of dangerous drugs for sale. Terms of the deal require Mohave County Superior Court Judge Doug Camacho to order a five-year prison term when Astorga is sentenced on July 20. Authorities allege Astorga kept driving when a Mohave County Sheriff’s deputy tried to conduct a traffic stop for a suspected lane change violation about two miles east of Kingman. Co-defendant Pedro Aguirre, 38,…

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Meth powder decorates interstate; driver enters plea

Ron Martin6 years ago2 years ago2 mins

KINGMAN – The driver of a moving vehicle from which pounds of methamphetamine were tossed onto Interstate 40 during a police chase entered a plea agreement Monday. Guadalupe Astorga, 44, Tulare, California is being convicted of transportation of dangerous drugs for sale. Terms of the deal require Mohave County Superior Court Judge Doug Camacho to order a five-year prison term when Astorga is sentenced on July 20. Authorities allege Astorga kept driving when a Mohave County Sheriff’s deputy tried to conduct a traffic stop for a suspected lane change violation about two miles east of Kingman. Co-defendant Pedro Aguirre, 38,…

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2020 expected to be ‘extreme’ for AZ wildfires

Ron Martin6 years ago5 mins

PHOENIX – Public lands in Arizona and perhaps the Western U.S. appear to be facing the most extreme year for wildland fire in more than a decade. The month of May was a record year for fire occurrence in Arizona. From May 1 to May 31, Arizona experienced 527 wildfires burning 81,536 acres. As of last week, Arizona has already experienced 941 wildfires this year burning 169,069 acres, of which 896 (95 percent) of those fires were human cased. In 2019, from January 1 to June 1, we had 689 fires burning only 47,000 acres of state, federal and tribal…

Sanitation rates may be going up for commercial, residential users in Kingman

Pam Wanner6 years ago3 mins

KINGMAN – Kingman sanitation service rates could be going up early next year for some customers. Yet to be scheduled public hearings could see the Municipal Utilities Commission considering increasing solid waste program rate hikes in August that Finance Director Tina Moline said could be implemented in January or February. A year-long study of Kingman’s solid waste program was the focus of 75 minutes of presentation and discussion during the May 19 city council meeting. Council directed its consultants and staff to move forward with activity and a public hearing schedule that could result in rate increases in early 2021….

Court News

Martin gets 16 years for daughter’s death

Ron Martin6 years ago2 years ago1 mins

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A 16-year prison term has been ordered for the Lake Havasu City man who pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the May, 2019 death of his 18-month-old daughter. Punishment imposed during a June 19 hearing by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle was mandated in a plea agreement for Ty Martin, 24. Martin’s daughter died when left in a hot vehicle while the defendant got high and played video games with a friend. Dave Hawkins

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Year: 2020

Candidate meet and greet slated

Meth powder decorates interstate; driver enters plea

Meth powder decorates interstate; driver enters plea

2020 expected to be ‘extreme’ for AZ wildfires

Sanitation rates may be going up for commercial, residential users in Kingman

Martin gets 16 years for daughter’s death

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