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The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says Zaynab Joseph was staying with her husband and 1-year-old child in a short-term rental in Sedona. The family was hiking the Bear Mountain Trail when Joseph fell down a 140-foot cliff.
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The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office says they’ve arrested a 52-year-old Prescott Valley man in connection with a decades-old rape case.
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Four Prescott residents have been arrested on multiple felony firearms and drug charges after a month-long investigation.
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DNA evidence indicates Bryan Scott Bennett was the man responsible for 23-year-old Catherine “Cathy” Sposito's 1987 killing on Thumb Butte Trail. Authorities say there may have been other victims.
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A newly hired Mayer High School teacher is under investigation after officials say he was accused of inappropriately touching multiple students.
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Residents of the Whitehorse Ranch community near Prescott Valley remain under evacuation orders because of a lightning-caused wildfire that started nearly a week ago.
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Sheriff’s officials said 18-year-old Kason Nutter allegedly admitted to being directly involved in seven of the fires — at a gas station, a county-owned cemetery, two abandoned homes and two wildfires along a Forest Service road.
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The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders for the area of Federal Mine Road and West Cherry Creek Road around 7:30 p.m. Sunday as the Racetrack Fire threatens the area.
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The body of a hiker was recovered Friday after he apparently “slipped and fell to his death” while hiking the Bell Rock Trail near Sedona.
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The money comes from the Border Security Fund and will be split between the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office and the Prescott Valley Police Department.