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Suspect released to Marines

Administrator — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:07:01 +0000

A son of the man accused of killing a Navajo Nation police
officer must report for duty in N.C. while his aggravated assault
case proceeds in the courts.

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Meth sales net 10 years in prison

Administrator — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:07:41 +0000

A woman was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in a federal prison
for selling meth near a school in Flagstaff.

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Prayers for Bible, Jennifer

Administrator — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:07:39 +0000

Opponents of the death penalty stage a prayer vigil the night
before Richard Bible is executed.

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Flagstaff Police Log

Administrator — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:07:20 +0000

Charged with DUI

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No arrests yet in Franklin Avenue shooting

Administrator — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:07:22 +0000

Flagstaff police say they are still looking for the suspect who
shot a 22-year-old Flagstaff man in the chest on Franklin Avenue on
June 11.

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Flagstaff murderer Ricky Bible executed

Administrator — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:07:25 +0000

Jennifer Wilson’s killer is put to death by lethal injection
Thursday in Florence.

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Bible appeals exhausted

Administrator — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:06:53 +0000

The document from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy,
posted Wednesday morning, is two sentences long.

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Supreme Court Justice turns down Bible’s execution stay

Administrator — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:06:55 +0000

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Bonfire leads to 5 arrests

Administrator — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:06:47 +0000

The Flagstaff Police Department arrested five people on Monday
night in connection with a large illegal bonfire in the West Ridge
Estates area off Thorpe Road.

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Rez man charged in officer killing

Administrator — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:06:21 +0000

A Kaibeto man has been federally charged with first-degree
murder in the shooting death of a Navajo Nation police officer
Sunday night.

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Bible on last appeal

Administrator — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:06:10 +0000

An appeals court has refused to delay the execution of Richard
Bible, 49, scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday.

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Murder charge in Navajo Nation officer’s death

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:06:54 +0000

A Kaibeto man has been federally charged with first-degree
murder in the shooting death of a Navajo Nation police officer
Sunday night.

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Appeals court won’t delay Bible’s execution

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:06:14 +0000

PHOENIX — An appeals court has refused to delay the execution of
an Arizona inmate scheduled to die by injection Thursday.

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Brothers charged in Navajo officer shooting

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:06:48 +0000

Two brothers from Kaibeto (KY’-bih-toh) have been arrested in
connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer on the
Navajo Nation.

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Slow quest for justice in Ricky Bible case

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:06:28 +0000

The key players reflect on a capital murder case that shaped and
even consumed their early careers.

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Bible in his own words: ‘I did not kill Jennifer Wilson’

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:06:26 +0000

His clean-shaven face is 20 years younger. The painted white
bricks of the old Coconino County Jail fill the background. He is
dressed in a dark pullover sweater, collared shirt and jail
trousers. His

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Flagstaff shaken to the core by 1988 murder of 9-year-old Jennifer Wilson

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:06:27 +0000

Jennifer Wilson’s body was found atop Sheep Hill on June 25,
1988, and Flagstaff hasn’t been the same since.

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Sheep Hill a changed landscape

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:06:45 +0000

Sheep Hill has changed in the 23 years since Gerry Blair stood
at the top to help with the investigation into the death of young
Jennifer Wilson.

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TIMELINE: THE RICHARD LYNN BIBLE CASE

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:06:37 +0000

June 6, 1988: Jennifer Wilson, 9, disappears while she rides her
bike along Old Walnut Canyon Road. Richard Lynn Bible is arrested
the same day on unrelated warrants.

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Slain Page officer mourned

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:06:55 +0000

PAGE — The late Darrell Curley received high praise in Page on
Monday, less than two days after he sustained fatal gunshot
injuries while responding to a domestic violence call on the Navajo
Nation.

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Kee denies starting Hill fire at Doney Park

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:06:07 +0000

The man accused of starting this month’s Hill fire in Doney Park
has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

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Board: No clemency for Bible

Administrator — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:06:48 +0000

PHOENIX — The state Board of Executive Clemency declined to
recommend a sentence commutation or a reprieve for a man facing
execution Thursday for the June 1988 murder of a young girl in
Flagstaff.

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Bible asks state for clemency

Administrator — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:06:28 +0000

His appeals nearly exhausted, Richard “Ricky” Bible has at least
one more chance to escape his death sentence on June 30.

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Man shot, injured by tribal police in LeChee

Administrator — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:06:17 +0000

A Navajo Nation police officer shot a man near LeChee on Wednesday.

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Bible again denied stay for 1988 murder in Flagstaff

Administrator — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:06:00 +0000

The state high court rejects the Flagstaff Death Row inmate’s
appeal on execution drugs, but the U.S. Supreme Court still must
rule on his DNA testing appeal.

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State Supreme Court denies Bible’s motion for stay of execution

Administrator — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:06:05 +0000

The Arizona Supreme Court denied death row inmate Richard
“Ricky” Bible, 49, a stay to his execution scheduled for
Thursday.

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Bible also seeks execution stay over drugs

Administrator — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:06:02 +0000

PHOENIX —The man convicted of molesting and killing a 9-year-old
girl in Flagstaff in 1988 is requesting from the Arizona Supreme
Court a stay in his execution on June 30.

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Sweat lodge guru convicted

Administrator — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:06:14 +0000

The jury agrees on the lesser charge of negligent homicide in
the Sedona sweat lodge deaths.

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Bible appeals to high court for 1988 murder in Flagstaff

Administrator — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:06:05 +0000

Death row inmate Richard Bible of Flagstaff argues that Arizona
has unconstitutionally denied him more DNA testing.

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Man attacks two boys at Bushmaster Park

Administrator — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:06:54 +0000

A man has been arrested for allegedly attacking and threatening
two young boys at Bushmaster Park.

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