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"Sweatbox" structure (AP/YCSO Photo)

Some Angel Valley Resort Patients Still Hospitalized

By Patrick Walker on October 13, 2009

SEDONA (NAZ Today)– The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office is increasing the number of people working on the Angel Valley Resort sweat lodge investigation.  Yavapai County Sheriff’s spokesman Dwight D’Evelyn says that the additional investigators are being assigned from the county’s Criminal Investigations Section.
Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh requested, and was granted, an order to seal [...]

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Investigators look over a "sweat lodge" on the grounds of Angel Valley Retreat Center, near Sedona, Ariz. Two people died and an estimated 19 others were taken to hospitals after being overcome while sitting in the sauna-like sweat lodge during a Sedona spiritual retreat, authorities said Friday. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle)

Updated: 2 Participants Killed, 19 Injured During Sedona Sweat Lodge Ceremony

By NAZ Today on October 9, 2009

PHOENIX (AP) — A sauna-like sweat lodge at an Arizona resort meant to provide spiritual cleansing became a crime scene Friday after two people died and others became ill during a two-hour session inside the crude structure.
In all, 21 of the 64 people crowded inside the sweat lodge Thursday evening were transported to hospitals. Four [...]

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