Kingman News

Boaters who plan to be somewhere in the Colorado River system this weekend can expect to pass through law enforcement checkpoints manned by five separate agencies.

A Kingman band is taking a chance at stardom. The local metal band Gheara is driving to Tempe next week to battle against 20 other Arizona bands in the Battle for Mayhem.

KINGMAN - Boaters who plan to be somewhere in the Colorado River system this weekend can expect to pass through law enforcement checkpoints manned by five separate agencies.

KINGMAN - The year was 1944 and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived in the White House the last time fewer than 100 law enforcement officers in the United States were killed in the line of duty in a calendar year. A nationwide initiative to get that number below the century mark that began in 2010 has made its way to the Mohave County Sheriff's Office.

GOLDEN VALLEY - Mohave County Sheriff's deputies arrested a man who reportedly threatened to shoot his wife and daughter Tuesday night.

KINGMAN - A Kingman band is taking a chance at stardom. The local metal band Gheara is driving to Tempe next week to battle against 20 other Arizona bands in the Battle for Mayhem. First prize: opening for Rob Zombie and Five Finger Death Punch at the 2013 Mayhem Festival tour in Phoenix on July 5.

With the Kingman Cobras Pop Warner football team dissolving, the Kingman Youth Football League has decided to make changes to accommodate players this fall.

KINGMAN - Hualapai Tribal Chairwoman Sherry Counts has acknowledged that a tribe-owned entity had trouble tracking Grand Canyon Skywalk revenues after it took over the tourist attraction through eminent domain in 2012.

KINGMAN - Mohave County officials are crying foul after the Arizona Senate released a budget bill that would restore lottery funds to some but not all counties in the state. Senate Bill 1483 would restore the County Assistance Fund to counties that have populations of less than 200,000 people according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Mohave County has 200,186 people.

Nearly 20 people applied to replace Jack Kramer as the next city manager by the end of Monday's closing date, according to Mayor John Salem.

An Aug. 19 trial date on child molestation charges has been set for a former executive director of the defunct Mohave County Economic Development Authority.

It was a few weeks before Christmas in 2007 when Victor Rounseville spoke to his sister Annette about her holiday plans.

According to Kingman Police Capt. Rusty Cooper, Robert Allen Eaton, 25, was driving too fast on Hualapai Mountain Road when he rear-ended a car stopped at the intersection of Hualapai Mountain Road and Railroad Avenue.

KINGMAN - Melissa Summerson, the former city employee who was let go from her job because her husband is a member of a purported outlaw motorcycle gang, has dropped her appeal to the city's personnel board. Instead, her attorney filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging the city violated her right to freedom of association when it terminated her in late December.

Producer Tina Lopez, a Kingman resident for 20 years, is holding auditions Wednesday and Thursday for extras in an upcoming short movie that will be filmed in Kingman.

KINGMAN - Domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh and his tenuous connection to the city still irks Kingman Police Capt. Scott Wright. McVeigh on April 19, 1995 detonated a 5,000-pound fertilizer bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including dozens of children, and wounding hundreds. Following his capture, reporters around the world listed Kingman as McVeigh's hometown, but in reality McVeigh spent little time here.

A woman was arrested Thursday after she allegedly killed a cat and threw the carcass at her 74-year-old mother and then beat her.

Area students got a taste of the complexities of litigation Thursday when judges from the Arizona Court of Appeals held court at Lee Williams High School.

The Kingman Clean City Commission and the city of Kingman Sanitation Department offer a special $3 trash haul in May.

At an emotional sentencing hearing Friday, John Patric Langan II said he had nothing to do with the July 2011 killing of Alberto Orozco.