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Suspected drowning under investigation

Ron Martin6 years ago2 years ago1 mins

LAKE HAVASU CITY – A suspected drowning is under investigation at Lake Havasu. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was notified at 8:20 a.m. Thursday that a body had been spotted in the water. “The Division of Boating Safety responded to the area of Thompson Bay near the Skate Park and located a deceased male subject under water, approximately 100 feet off of the shore,” said sheriff’s spokeswoman Anita Mortensen. “Members of the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Dive Rescue and Recovery Team secured the scene, and recovered the body from the water.” Mortensen said no suspicious circumstances were evident. No details…

Business News

New retail tenant to fill space on Andy Devine

Ron Martin6 years ago2 mins

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman Economic Development Department has been working to attract new retail companies to Kingman. For the past few months, the Economic Development Team has been working with the property owner of 3340 E. Andy Devine Avenue to fill tenant space previously occupied by Kmart. After multiple communications and site visits with a regional home, farm, and ranch retailer, C-A-L Ranch Stores has signed a lease to occupy approximately 50,000 sq. ft. of tenant space in Kingman with an anticipated opening date of early spring 2021. C-A-L Ranch Stores, founded in 1959, is known for home,…

Business News

New retail tenant to fill space on Andy Devine

Pam Wanner6 years ago2 mins

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman Economic Development Department has been working to attract new retail companies to Kingman. For the past few months, the Economic Development Team has been working with the property owner of 3340 E. Andy Devine Avenue to fill tenant space previously occupied by Kmart. After multiple communications and site visits with a regional home, farm, and ranch retailer, C-A-L Ranch Stores has signed a lease to occupy approximately 50,000 sq. ft. of tenant space in Kingman with an anticipated opening date of early spring 2021. C-A-L Ranch Stores, founded in 1959, is known for home,…

Opinion

Mohave County AZ selectively enforces mandatory mask ordinance

Pam Wanner6 years ago4 mins

Dear Editor, On October 8, at 12:00 p.m., at the Mohave County Building located at 700 W. Beale St. in Kingman, I went to the Board of Supervisor meeting with a group of Mohave County residents. A few days prior to this meeting, I had made this meeting public on social media so that others would know about it and attend. When we got there, security guards and Sheriff deputies were already there. We were denied access to this public meeting, and according to them, we were blocked from entering under the orders of the county supervisors. We were adamantly…

County residents get mask-erade invite

Ron Martin6 years ago3 mins

MOHAVE COUTY – Passionate mask mandate debates have raged during tri state area city council, school board and other meetings and have divided friends and family through recent months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mohave County is now providing a public forum for the topic on Thursday, Oct. 22. Supervisor Gary Watson suggested a “town hall” or “public workshop” style meeting to attempt to clear up misinformation regarding the county mask policy, and how it differs from requirements that have been very contentious in area municipalities. “I think there’s a lot of people who are confused by what we want and…

Court News

Officer-involved shooting update

Pam Wanner6 years ago2 years ago2 mins

KINGMAN – The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who was killed and provided additional details as it conducts an independent investigation of an Officer Involved Shooting (OIS) incident. Agency spokeswoman Anita Mortensen said the man who died following a multiple hour Wednesday morning standoff in Kingman is Jason Peters, 45, Kingman. Mortensen said Kingman police were first summoned at 12:36 a.m. to a report of a man chopping bushes on his neighbor’s property in the 2000 block of Fairgrounds Boulevard. The subject had left by the time police arrived. Police responded to the same area again at…

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Year: 2020

Suspected drowning under investigation

New retail tenant to fill space on Andy Devine

New retail tenant to fill space on Andy Devine

Mohave County AZ selectively enforces mandatory mask ordinance

County residents get mask-erade invite

Officer-involved shooting update

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