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Route 66 Fest held at Lewis Kingman Park

KINGMAN, Ariz. – A big celebration of Route 66

No Kings Rally returned to Kingman Saturday

KINGMAN, Ariz. – The Kingman Free Thinkers hosted

3rd Annual Monster Mutt Mash: Trunk or treat

KINGMAN, Ariz. – The 3rd Annual Monster Mutt

Calvary Chapel hosts 5th Annual Pumpkin Patch over

KINGMAN, Ariz. – Calvary Chapel in Kingman presented

Bulldog All-Class Reunion takes over downtown Kingman

KINGMAN, Ariz. – All classes of the Kingman

Beale Street Theater hosts sold out screening of

KINGMAN, Ariz. – The screening of filmmaker John

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Kingman Police staff recognized at awards ceremony

The Kingman Police Department held its 16th Annual Awards Ceremony on Thursday, May 16, during National Police Week.  The 2019 Officer of the Year is Officer Adam Simonsen; Civilian Employee of the Year is Neighborhood Service Officer Sam Kurtz; Explorer of the Year is Lilith Bennett; and Volunteer of the Year is William Kriekel.  A highlight of the ceremony was when eight-year old Dylan DeWolf was recognized with a Citizens Appreciation and Life Saving Award.  Dylan was responsible for helping to save the life of another young boy who became trapped under a heavy trailer.  Dylan came to the aid of…

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Defendant skips out at trial lunch break

A Lake Havasu City man is a fugitive from justice after skipping out during the middle of trial before he was convicted on May 17. Richard Fender, 61, failed to return to the courthouse following the lunch break, and a warrant for his arrest was issued after he was convicted of transportation and possession of dangerous drugs for sale late Friday afternoon. Fender asked prosecutor Reed Weisberg if he would offer a better plea agreement Friday morning before the trial began. Weisberg said he wouldn’t accept anything less than a four-year prison term to resolve his case through a plea…

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Chicken tortilla soup recalled

Blount Fine Foods, a McKinney, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 6,690 pounds of soup with chicken products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically plastic. The ready-to-eat chicken tortilla soup items were produced on April 26, 2019. The following products are subject to recall: 16-oz. plastic bowls containing “Panera BREAD at HOME Chicken Tortilla Soup” with a “Use By date” of 07/05/2019 and lot codes 042619-3V or 042619-4V printed on the bottom of the container. The products subject to recall bear establishment number “P-13130” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to distribution centers and retail locations…

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Local woman sentenced in fraud schemes

Long stole from school district program, elderly bank customer A 6.5-year prison sentence has been ordered for a Kingman woman who stole from her school district employer for nearly five years before she ripped off an elderly customer while working as a bank teller. Deborah Long, 44, was sentenced Friday by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle. Long was one of the first two employees hired when the Western Arizona Vocational Education (WAVE) district was established in 2009. She pleaded guilty to fraud and theft for stealing nearly $140,000 from WAVE from November 2011 to August 2016. The school…

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Crash victims identified

Authorities have released the names of the five people killed in a Friday morning head-on collision on Interstate 40, about 14 miles southwest of Kingman. The Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) said the crash occurred after 9:06 a.m. when a 2010 Nissan sedan traveling in the wrong direction eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 struck a 2015 Honda sedan. DPS said the driver of the wrong way vehicle, 82-year-old Harold Wayne Wickham, and his passenger Ella Wickham, 90, both of Laughlin, Nevada were dead at the scene of the crash. Dead at the scene of the collision…

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