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LAKE HAVASU CITY – The body of a man who went missing over the weekend was recovered from Lake Havasu Monday. That a man disappeared in the water near Thompson Bay was reported to the Mohave County Sheriff’s office at about 4:07 p.m. Sunday. Search and dive operations that were unsuccessful Sunday resumed early Monday. “At approximately 10:22 a.m., divers located the male subject deceased in approximately 21-feet of water,’’ said sheriff’s office spokeswoman Anita Mortensen. “The male victim has been identified as Gary Elliott Welmer, 67, of Lake Havasu City.” Mortensen had no information regarding how Welmer came to be…

KINGMAN – Thanks to generous donations from locally-owned businesses― Preston Investments and Peterson Burge Enterprises― along with individual donations from community members, Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC) will conduct a local epidemiologic study of COVID-19 later this summer.  The study will involve several thousand community members who volunteer to participate in the effort. They will be given free antibody testing to determine if they previously had COVID-19. They will also be asked to complete a detailed questionnaire about their exposure history. Dr. John Ashurst, Medical Director of KRMC’s Graduate Medical Education Department and Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency…

KINGMAN – Thanks to generous donations from locally-owned businesses― Preston Investments and Peterson Burge Enterprises― along with individual donations from community members, Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC) will conduct a local epidemiologic study of COVID-19 later this summer.  The study will involve several thousand community members who volunteer to participate in the effort. They will be given free antibody testing to determine if they previously had COVID-19. They will also be asked to complete a detailed questionnaire about their exposure history. Dr. John Ashurst, Medical Director of KRMC’s Graduate Medical Education Department and Program Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency…

BULLHEAD CITY – After a full day of work in summer temperatures reaching above 110 degrees, MEC crews responded to a vehicle contacting a pole incident. The call came from emergency dispatchers just after 2:30 p.m.; the vehicle erupted in fire, catching a utility pole and nearby brush on fire at the NW corner of Hwy 95 and Boundary Cone Road in Mohave Valley. For the safety of the responding fire crews MEC performed circuit switching to isolate the section of line in the incident area. Shortly after 4:00 p.m., a brief outage affected approximately 450 members; and of those,…

In recognition of a generous donation from a former Kingman resident and business owner, Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC) has renamed its Cancer Center. It is now called the W L Nugent Cancer Center, named for William (Bill) Nugent. Bill Nugent has donated accrued equity in a 60,000 sq. ft. building and associated land at 2110 Airway Avenue to Kingman Regional Medical Center. Nugent was a longtime resident of Kingman who contributed greatly to our community.  He graduated in 1970 with a degree from Cal Western University in San Diego and embarked on a career as a general contractor and real estate developer in…