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The fallacy in cherry picking

Dear Editor, During the recent Trump administration’s U.S.

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Safe evacuation in Lake Havasu City garage fire

LAKE HAVASU CITY – At approximately 11:30 p.m.

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Rhythm & Brews festival returns for third year

KINGMAN — The Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce

Nancy Griffith Terhaar

March 12, 1948 – May 29, 2026 Nancy,

Volunteers help expand innovative Colorado River Fish Habitat

BULLHEAD CITY — Twenty volunteers from Bullhead City

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Scam artists apprehended in Starbucks parking lot

KINGMAN – An alleged scam artist was arrested

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Accreditation assessment team invites public comment

LAKE HAVASU CITY – The Lake Havasu City Police Department is seeking re-accreditation through the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police (AACOP) Arizona Law Enforcement Accreditation Program (ALEAP).  Accreditation is a progressive and time-proven method of assisting law enforcement agencies in measuring and improving their overall performance. ALEAP is intended to provide law enforcement agencies in the state with an avenue for demonstrating that they meet commonly accepted best practices and industry standards for efficient, effective, productive and quality operations. The Lake Havasu City Police Department was proudly accredited (initially) in 2020. A team of assessors from ALEAP will arrive…

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Kingman Young Marines learn about Pearl Harbor 

KINGMAN – Seven members of the Kingman Young Marines joined with other units from around the nation who came together to honor the service of our WWII service members, past and present during the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.   As part of the Pearl Harbor program Young Marines participated in Wreath-laying at the National Memorial of the Pacific, carried banners in the Pearl Harbor Day Memorial Parade and helped man the many floats that paid tribute to the survivors and family members of those who died on December 7, 1941.  The Kingman Young Marines had one added…

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Linda Eileen Lucero

Linda Eileen Lucero, of Kingman, died Friday, December 22, 2023. She was 80. Mrs. Lucero was born Jan. 20, 1943 in Riverside, Calif. The family contact is her daughter Karla Olivia Morales. A viewing will be held Dec. 30 at 10 a.m. Sutton Memorial Funeral Home with services following at 11 a.m. Arrangments were made by Sutton Memorial Funeral Home.

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Arizona lawmaker Athena Salman resigning at year’s end, says she will join an abortion rights group

PHOENIX (AP) – State Rep. Athena Salman will resign her seat in the Arizona Legislature at the end of the month to take up a top position at an abortion rights group, she announced Wednesday on social media. Salman will become the director of Arizona campaigns for the state chapter of Reproductive Freedom For All, a nonprofit political action and advocacy organization formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. “When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I committed to do everything in my power to restore abortion rights in the United States of America,” Salman said in a statement. “The…

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Arizona lawmaker Athena Salman resigning at year’s end, says she will join an abortion rights group

PHOENIX (AP) – State Rep. Athena Salman will resign her seat in the Arizona Legislature at the end of the month to take up a top position at an abortion rights group, she announced Wednesday on social media. Salman will become the director of Arizona campaigns for the state chapter of Reproductive Freedom For All, a nonprofit political action and advocacy organization formerly known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. “When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I committed to do everything in my power to restore abortion rights in the United States of America,” Salman said in a statement. “The…

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I-40/US 93 Kingman interchange project set to begin in the new year

KINGMAN – The new year will be an exciting one for drivers who use US 93 between the Phoenix area and Kingman as the Arizona Department of Transportation advances one major project to increase capacity and starts another. A current US 93 widening project near Wickenburg is at 50% completion. And by summer, one of the largest US 93 improvement projects in recent years will kick off in west Kingman as work starts to construct an interchange that will provide a free-flowing connection between US 93 and Interstate 40. These US 93 projects are among many projects ADOT plans to…

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