Trending Today ...
Letter to the Editor
Standard deemed unprofessional

Dear Editor, I am writing it as a

Letter to the Editor
Halloween costumes and political candidate’s masks

Dear Editor, Halloween and the election are really

Letter to the Editor
We need more Christian leaders in office

Dear Editor, I firmly feel that we need

Letter to the Editor
They leave in threes

Dear Editor, They say sometimes they leave in

West Kingman Pharmacy joins statewide Narcan initiative 

KINGMAN, Ariz. - The West Kingman Pharmacy will

Century-old building being restored in Oatman

OATMAN, Ariz. – Kris Crawford bought the historic

Thank you for reading The Standard newspaper online!

Pam Wanner

Eastern Street Realignment Project Re-Routing Beginning Next Week

KINGMAN, Ariz. – The City of Kingman would like to notify the community that there will be a road closure for the Eastern Realignment to Airway Avenue project beginning on Monday, May 6, 2024. This will include a road closure at Eastern Street (North of Calumet Avenue) and Kenwood Avenue (West of Lomalai Street) from Monday, May 6, 2024 thru Wednesday, July 3, 2024. This closure will allow construction crews to relocate utilities as needed, install new curbs, gutters, sidewalks and asphalt on the newly aligned Eastern Street to Airway Avenue. All traffic will be re-routed utilizing Calumet Avenue. The City of…

Read More

MCC laboratory technician named 2024 Ellen Licari Service to Students award recipient

MOHAVE COUNTY – Angel Soto, a Science Laboratory Technician on the Bullhead Campus, has been selected as the 2024 Ellen Licari Service to Students Award. Angel Soto has been working at Mohave Community College since 2017 when he decided to return home to Bullhead City from Flagstaff. Since then, he has had a positive impact on students as a Science Laboratory Technician on the Bullhead Campus. This year he was selected as the 2024 Ellen Licari Service to Students Award recipient. The award recognizes employees who go above and beyond to put students first. The Ellen Licari Service to Students…

Read More

Nettrour gets 28 years for drugged driving death

Benjamin Nettrour BULLHEAD CITY – A Camp Verde man will serve lengthy incarceration in a drugged driving traffic fatality. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle ordered a 28.5-year prison term for Benjamin Nettrour, 37, during an April 26 sentencing hearing. The Department of Public Safety said Nettrour was northbound on U.S. 93 when the pickup truck he was driving rear-ended a passenger vehicle, pushing it into the median where it rolled 23 miles north of Kingman  last June. A passenger in the vehicle, Angelina Ortega, 52, Chloride, was dead at the scene. Two other passengers were hospitalized with injuries….

Read More

No injuries in house fire

LAKE HAVASU CITY – At approximately 5:15 a.m. on Wednesday, April 24, a fire was reported by the resident in the 2300 block of Palo Verde Blvd N. The occupant discovered smoke and flames in the kitchen and evacuated the residence. The occupants evacuated the house safely. There were no reported injuries to the firefighters. The cause of the fire is under investigation. 

Read More

Caldera convicted of manslaughter in shooting death

Angel Caldera LAKE HAVASU CITY – A Lake Havasu City man faces a mandatory prison sentence following his conviction at trial in a shooting death. A Mohave County Superior Court jury found Angel Caldera guilty of manslaughter following deliberation in Kingman on Friday, April 26. The jury declined to convict Caldera, 23, of second-degree murder, favoring instead conviction for the lesser included offense of manslaughter. The panel rejected the self-defense claim offered by Legal Defender Jonathan Robinson. There was no dispute that Caldera had kicked Arnell Bell, 19, out of a residence at 2595 McCulloch Boulevard N for failure to…

Read More

Time for Compromise?

What I am about to say will either be seen as a moderate approach to a difficult problem or as a sellout heretic to a fundamental truth. So, buckle up. Rarely do I interject myself into politics, especially here. But there is a problem that is overlapping between politics and religion that both people of faith and people opposed need some clarity and perhaps compromise. It is not our borders, inflation, or geopolitical wars. It is not who defines gender or whether a person can be a “furry” (look it up—crazy). In short, it is the issue regarding a woman’s…

Read More