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Simply the Best benefit concert slated

LAKE HAVASU CITY – This September, the Havasu community will pay homage to recently lost musical legend Tina Turner for a great cause.  Organized by the Havasu Community Health Foundation (HCHF), celebrity impersonator Tina Tina along with The Motown Blossoms, will join together on stage to perform your favorite Turner hits along with Motown classics courtesy of The Motown Blossoms.  By the mid 1970s, Turner began her solo career. In the early 1980s, Turner was signed by Capital Records during her second performance at the Ritz. Her cover of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together reached many European charts and in the U.S., the song was…

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County housing needs assessment study

MOHAVE COUNTY – FCS Group will be presenting the Mohave County Housing Needs Assessment Study to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors for acceptance on September 18th. Here is a summary and the key findings of that report. Executive Summary: All citizens deserve to have a decent home. The Mohave County Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) examines current housing conditions, forecasts long-term housing needs, and identifies potential policies that support a fair and equitable housing environment. The overall goal of the Housing Needs Assessment is to help focus community efforts on the most critical local housing issues. Specifically, the report focuses…

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County housing needs assessment study

MOHAVE COUNTY – FCS Group will be presenting the Mohave County Housing Needs Assessment Study to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors for acceptance on September 18th. Here is a summary and the key findings of that report. Executive Summary: All citizens deserve to have a decent home. The Mohave County Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) examines current housing conditions, forecasts long-term housing needs, and identifies potential policies that support a fair and equitable housing environment. The overall goal of the Housing Needs Assessment is to help focus community efforts on the most critical local housing issues. Specifically, the report focuses…

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Grand Canyon Pro Rodeo

Lighting Kingman up this weekend, September 22nd & 23rd Rodeo week kicks off with Taco Tuesday on the 19th at The Tack Shed Saloon & Eatery starting at 5 P.M. Wednesday the 20th, The Annual Andy Awards dinner starting at 6 P.M. in Beale Celebrations. Thursday the 21st, The Cow Plop Starting at 5 P.M. located in the Boot Barn parking lot. This year we will have concessions and a beer garden for the spectators. The Rodeo Action starts with slack on Friday the 22nd at 9 A.M.  Slack is for the overflow of contestants and generally runs about 2…

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Police identify killer in 1987 cold case on hiking trail

PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) – A young college student who was brutally killed on a Prescott hiking trail decades ago was the victim of a serial predator who took his own life years later, authorities said Friday. Yavapai County Sheriff David Rhodes announced at a news conference that DNA evidence indicates Bryan Scott Bennett was the man responsible for 23-year-old Catherine “Cathy” Sposito’s 1987 death. In November 2022, authorities had the body of Bennett, who killed himself in 1994, exhumed. It wasn’t until March that investigators confirmed DNA on a wrench used in the slaying belonged to him. By releasing this…

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Hiker Fatality near Cottonwood Campground along North Kaibab Trail

GRAND CANYON, Ariz.—On September 9 at approximately 1:55 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received an emergency call of a hiker in distress on the North Kaibab Trail approximately one mile south of Cottonwood Campground. Soon thereafter the hiker became unresponsive and bystanders initiated CPR.  National Park Service (NPS) search and rescue personnel responded to the call via helicopter. Given the location, specialized helicopter maneuvers were employed to allow rangers to assume care of the hiker, initiating advance life support efforts.  Attempts to resuscitate the hiker were unsuccessful. The victim has been identified as 55-year-old, Ranjith Varma of Manassas, Virginia who was hiking from the South…

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