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Parker Police Chief Rodney Mendoza had a harassment injunction against him dismissed in court today. The court found that the plaintiff, Lorrie Thompson, had not satisfied the burden of proof in the case. Thompson had alleged that Mendoza was sexually harassing her, including by text message, by phone and in person. The Lake Havasu Consolidated Courts dismissed the injunction without …

Photo: Eric E Johnson A man was sentenced in U.S. District court for the murder of Daniel Pierce, son of La Paz County Supervisor Sandy Pierce. Loren Kaysang Tahbo, 33, of Parker, a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 265 months in prison, five years of supervised release and …

La Paz County Health Department Arizona has been a leader in tobacco control and beginning August 12th 2013, we will take another step forward. The CIGNAL is Arizona’s newest effort to help tobacco users quit and stay quit. The average age of initiation for smokers, meaning the first time they try a cigarette, is between 11 and 12. Ninety percent …

Via Michael Collins

2:20pm– The town of Parker lost power Wednesday afternoon. No word yet as to why, but APS customers were without power. 2:31pm– Reports that the outage is affecting Bouse and Quartzsite also. 2:50pm– APS says it is experiencing a mechanical issue similar to the second outage late Friday afternoon, which may be relating to overloading. Engineers are currently doing some …

12:30pm– ADOT says traffic is delayed north of Parker due to a rollover crash involving one vehicle. Traffic northbound on Highway 95 is blocked. 12:44pm– The crash happened 8.5 miles north of Buckskin State Park (about 3 miles north of Bill Williams Bridge). ADOT says northbound lanes are closed and may not be cleared until 2 p.m. 1:20pm– Highway 95 …

If one picture is worth a thousand words, then this photograph of Miss La Paz County 2012 Alyson Tozer taken a couple of days after her double lung transplant makes more of an impact than anything we could write at Parker Live about her progress. In a Facebook posting Saturday from her bed at St. Joseph Hospital in Phoenix, Alyson …

That’s right: Parker Live’s extended outage over the weekend was caused by too many people wanting to check the site for updates on Friday afternoon. In the rush for information about the APS power outage, Parker Live servers blew up and – because it was affecting other websites hosted on the same server – our hosting provider InMotion pulled Parker …

12:15pm– A power outage affected APS customers in the town of Parker within the past 20 minutes. No word yet on the cause of the outage, which continues. 12:30pm– Reports that a power pole has been hit in an accident. 1:06pm– Report: A car hit a power pole near the intersection of Mohave Road and Navajo Avenue, approximately one block …

My fourth year as full-time RVer found me not skipping off to my newspaper job in Idaho, but stranded in Quartzsite after a local publisher stiffed me for three month’s work. Oh, goody. Summer in Arizona. More new experiences. I landed a gig where I could park my rig and hired on as caretaker for some large, closed-for-summer facilities. That …