Golden Valley News

Motorists traveling along Beale Street in southwest Kingman Friday evening got a surprising sight - a 35-foot recreational vehicle smashed into a traffic light pole and a man with a metal stake bashing in the windshield.

Gary Forde grills hamburgers at the St. Johns United Methodist Church barbecue at Veterans Park in Golden Valley Saturday.

The Mohave County Sheriff's Office is appealing to the public for help in identifying the suspects in two separate Golden Valley robberies over the last month.

Business workshops offered KINGMAN - Two free human resources workshops sponsored by the Mohave Community College Small Business Development Center on the Neal Campus-Kingman will be held this week.

KINGMAN A Veterans Day Ceremony will be at 11 a.m. today at the Veterans Memorial in Locomotive Park in downtown Kingman.

A $500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for the armed robbery in Golden Valley Wednesday.

One man was shot during an armed robbery at the King Mart convenience store in Golden Valley Wednesday afternoon.

Legion hosts job fair Tuesday KINGMAN - Job seekers are invited to the Hire a Vet First Job Fair slated for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at American Legion Post 14, 225 Oak St.

Two 13-year-old brothers from Golden Valley are facing several felony charges in connection with a string of burglaries, after police found a cache of stolen weapons in a trailer where they'd been staying.

County Public Works crews have a number of projects this week. In Dolan Springs, crews will be repairing fencing along 23rd Street and blading roads.

It's not unusual to see residents with horses, donkeys, dogs, chickens or maybe even sheep in Golden Valley.

Toys for Tots area coordinator Norman Burns stands amidst assorted empty boxes in a former car showroom at Martin Swanty Kia, 2610 E. Andy Devine Ave., which has been reworked into a distribution center for the charity.

Residents of the Chloride Domestic Water Improvement District may have to wait a little longer to get quality water.

Instructors from Mohave Community College will be teaching residents in 10 rural Mohave County locations next fall due to a $499,253 grant recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Utility Services Distance Learning and Telemedicine.

The Kingman Planning & Zoning Commission has a new member in Sandi Reynolds. A former owner/broker of GV Properties in Golden Valley, Reynolds was appointed to Todd Tarson's vacant commission seat by a 4-2 vote of the City Council Monday evening, effectively replacing one Realtor with another.

Police have released a description of a suspect in the armed robbery of a Golden Valley bank.

A Golden Valley man awaiting his third trial for second-degree murder was in court Monday to answer to a new set of charges.

KINGMAN Former state Sen. Brenda Burns, a candidate for the Arizona Corporate Commission, is the guest speaker at Monday's Kingman Republican Men's Club meeting.

Medical providers throughout Mohave County have received their first shipment of 1,900 doses of the H1N1 "swine" flu vaccine.

Earl Engelhardt was crushed when Phantom Chambers, his popular haunted maze attraction, was unceremoniously shut down only days before opening last October due to longstanding zoning violations.