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Southwest Behavioral & Health Services (SB&H), has received an $849,915 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The funds will be used for a Comprehensive Opioid Recovery Center (CORC) with an Integrated Systems Approach that will serve individuals in Mohave County, Arizona. The SAMHSA grant will enable SB&H to enhance capacity and service options for Mohave County’s uninsured and underinsured populations directly addressing the county’s worsening opioid epidemic. The SB&H CORC will partner with and serve local hospitals, local Native American communities, police and fire, probation programs, behavioral health providers and local community groups. The program can…

KINGMAN – A Mohave County sheriff’s deputy has been cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of a non-compliant man at his home in Golden Valley. The Mohave County attorney’s office has determined that Deputy Jose Cardenas was justified when he shot and killed Jason Matthew Henke, 42, on July 29. Henke was named in three criminal arrest warrants charging him with eight counts of aggravated assault, eight counts of disorderly conduct involving a weapon, stalking, threatening, harassment, unlawful flight and indecent exposure at the time of his death. Cardenas reportedly learned that Henke could be located at his…