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KINGMAN – The City of Kingman is notifying

Mohave Electric announces classroom grant winners

BULLHEAD CITY – Mohave Electric Cooperative (MEC) awarded eighteen

Full closure of Airway Ave, Flying Fortress Pkwy

KINGMAN – The City of Kingman is notifying

National Day of Prayer observed

KINGMAN – A National Day of Prayer event

Two years for possession of a kilogram of

KINGMAN – Transporting illegal drugs into Mohave County

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Five dead in I-40 head-on collision

A multiple fatality traffic accident closed the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 ten miles southwest of Kingman at 9:06 a.m. Friday. The Department of Public Safety said a wrong-way driving incident led to the head on collision at milepost 36. DPS said at least four people were dead at the scene of the accident. A fifth person died following transport to Kingman Regional Medical Center. One westbound lane was reopened to traffic just before noon.  Names of the victims are withheld pending notification of kin and the accident is under investigation.

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Vizcara gets 24 years for role in double kidnap-murder

A second defendant has been sentenced for his involvement in the abduction-murders of two Bullhead City residents in a remote desert area of Fort Mohave. The 24-year prison term imposed during Thursday’s sentencing hearing for 29-year old Jose Vizcara was the harshest punishment possible under terms of a plea agreement convicting him of two counts of kidnapping. Authorities have said that Mona Carter, 51, and Daryl Ward, 22 were both abducted and herded into a bedroom of a Bullhead City home in January, 2018. Both were interrogated; Ward for his suspected involvement in theft of drugs and Carter for her…

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At-large former drug dealer convicted

A former Desert Hills resident who sold significant quantities of drugs in the Lake Havasu City area and beyond was convicted in absentia at his jury trial in Kingman. A Mohave County Superior Court jury deliberated for less than 15 minutes May 16 before finding David Allen Muehlhausen, 59, guilty of all seven felony offenses.   Prosecutor Kellen Marlow told the jury that Muehlhausen sold drugs to a confidential informant who was working for law enforcement. Defense attorney Sandra Carr countered that the informant was not a credible witness and should not be believed because he was making controlled buys to…

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Lower energy costs lead to summer savings for UniSource Electric customers

UniSource Energy Services electric customers will enjoy summer bill savings that average more than $21 per month thanks to reduced natural gas and power prices. The Arizona Corporation Commission approved UniSource’s request to apply an energy cost credit of 1.85 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to its electric bills from June 1 to Sept. 30. The credit is expected to reduce the bills of typical residential customers by $21.56 per month, on average, or nearly 18 percent.  “We’re passing along significant fuel and energy cost savings to our electric customers just in time for the summer, when temperatures rise and energy…

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County to assume Kingman animal shelter; new building needed soon

Manager Mike Hendrix has informed the Mohave County Board of Supervisors that staff is preparing to transition to Mohave County operation of the animal shelter located in downtown Kingman. During the May 17 budget workshop, Hendrix told supervisors that the Lake Havasu City-based Western Arizona Humane Society (WAHS) no longer wants to operate the shelter through contract with the county. WAHS Executive Director Patty Gillmore, in an April 22 letter to a county procurement official, said the organization has had a long standing relationship with the county, but is not interested in operating the shelter once its current contract expires…

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Newly discovered fossil footprints from Grand Canyon National Park force paleontologists to rethink early inhabitants of ancient deserts

An international team of paleontologists has united to study important fossil footprints recently discovered in a remote location within Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. A large sandstone boulder contains several exceptionally well-preserved trackways of primitive tetrapods (four-footed animals) which inhabited an ancient desert environment. The 280-million-year-old fossil tracks date to almost the beginning of the Permian Period, prior to the appearance of the earliest dinosaurs. The first scientific article reporting fossil tracks from the Grand Canyon was published in 1918, just a year before the park was established as a unit of the National Park Service. One hundred years later,…

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