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Chloride to host annual St. Patrick’s Day parade

CHLORIDE – Chloride, the oldest mining camp in Arizona, always brings out everything green this time of year. This March Chloride celebrates St. Patrick’s Day Saturday, March 16th with a parade, gunfights, bull whip show, vendors, gold panning, and lots of entertainment for the entire family. The day will be full of fun activities starting with the Bake Sale at 9 a.m. Come early the goodies go fast. At 10 a.m. parade registration begins at the Town Hall on Payroll Avenue. Haven’t signed up for the parade yet, no problem. You have until 11 a.m. for late sign-ups. At 11…

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City tables ban on exotic animal performances

KINGMAN – The Kingman City council tabled action on an ordinance proposing banning local performances featuring exotic animals by circuses and other traveling shows. The first half-dozen citizens speaking at the March 5 council meeting urged adoption of the measure, alleging that tigers, elephants and other exotic animals suffer for their involvement in the industry. Ordinance supporters like Keepers of the Wild sanctuary founder Jonathan Kraft said the animals are mistreated simply by their captivity, their confinement within small cages or space and forced travel. They contend they also suffer abuse when electric prods, whips and other equipment and methods…

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Uber kidnapping case: One defendant sentenced; other defendant’s case pending acceptance of plea deal

One southern Nevada resident has been sentenced to prison while a judge has indicated he may reject terms of a plea agreement for her co-defendant charged in a crime spree that began in Las Vegas and ended in Mohave County. The case involves the May, 2018 abduction of an Uber driver and her male passenger in Nevada, shots fired at an 18-wheeler near the Arizona-Nevada border and the resulting police pursuit that ended in downtown Kingman. Raitasha Antoinette Williams-Gardner, 21, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and aggravated assault for her involvement in the case. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle,…

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Premiering this week: The Odd Couple

KINGMAN – For three nights only, two men will be living under Lee Williams High School’s roof. From Beale Street Theater, director Matt Lambert depicts Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple’s intended message: Friends are there for you when you need them, even if you might get on each other’s nerves. Oscar Madison played by Bob Blake and Felix Ungar played by Geoff Cornelsen, are quite the odd couple indeed. After his wife demands a divorce, Felix finds himself at the home of his best friend, Oscar – a messy, aloof, broke sports writer living in 1960s New York. Audiences of…

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Fox Creek team scores in Science Olympiad Regionals

BULLHEAD CITY – For the third consecutive year, a team from Fox Creek Junior High School will advance from regional competition to the annual Arizona Science Olympiad at Arizona State University next month.  The 12 team members are coming off of a fifth place victory out of 19 teams at spring regional competition held at Estrella Mountain Elementary School in Goodyear. The Fox Creek team brought home 20 top ten finishes out of 23 events.  Individually, Fox Creek scores ranged from second to tenth place. Science Olympiad is a national science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program that allows students to…

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Home invader sentenced to nine years

A young father leaves four children behind as he goes to the Arizona Department of Corrections for his involvement in home invasion robbery and drive by shooting incidents just five days apart in Kingman. “His children are going to suffer for his actions,” defense attorney Gerald Gavin said at the March 8 sentencing hearing for Corey Thomas, 26. Thomas is one of three armed suspects who forced their way into a home on Comanche Drive on Oct. 2 last year. No one was hurt though occupants of the home were threatened at gunpoint as the robbers demanded money and cell…

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