State Glance

1 killed, 1 critically injured in Lake Havasu boat collision

LAKE HAVASU CITY — One person was killed and a second critically injured in a nearly head-on nighttime collision between two motorboats on Lake Havasu along the Colorado River, authorities said Thursday.

Emergency personnel responding Wednesday night to multiple calls about a collision and people in the water found a large debris field and pulled out of the water the man who died, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said.

A good Samaritan had already pulled the other injured person out of the water, the office said.

Both victims were in a boat traveling southeast when it collided with a second boat that was traveling northwest and whose occupants weren’t injured, the office said.

The man killed was identified as Richard Keith Williams, 66 of Phoenix. No other identities were released.

The Sheriff’s Office said the crash remained under investigation but that alcohol and drugs were possible factors in the collision along with speed and lighting conditions.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maricopa County jails now at 30

PHOENIX — Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials and the county’s Correctional Health Services are tracking and responding to a rise in coronavirus cases inside jail facilities, with the number of confirmed cases increasing from six to 30 since the end of last month.

County officials said Thursday that 23 of the cases involve inmates in four different jails who are isolated and receiving treatment from medical staff.

The screening protocol implemented in March allows jail staff to immediately identify and isolate people with symptoms or those considered at-risk so they never enter the general population before being cleared of COVID-19.

Authorities said every sick inmate also is tested for the coronavirus with 318 returning negative results to date.

In addition to the screening protocol, all new inmates are placed in cohort housing where they stay for 14 days before entering the general population.

Sheriff’s officials said they’ve been working with the courts, prosecutors and defense attorneys and have reduced the jail population to about 5,000 inmates in five jails.

Correctional Health Services currently has 78 inmates in isolation awaiting results of COVID-19 tests.