Gone are the days when more than 700 people would pack the dining room for Friday night fish fry.

August 26, 2004

FLAGSTAFF — Authorities have charged motivational speaker James Arthur Ray with three counts of manslaughter for deaths that happened after a sweat lodge ceremony he led in northern Arizona last year.

SEDONA — The owner of a retreat where a sweat lodge ceremony turned deadly said the man who led it was a perfectionist who controlled every detail of an event meant to push people beyond their physical limits.

INVERNESS, Calif. - A fire destroyed a Northern California lodge popular with celebrities, abruptly halting holiday vacations for Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal and a dozen or so other guests.

Tracy Baker doesn’t believe in ghosts. Yet when her four children were bored and restless on a recent trip to Douglas, Baker sent them on a ghost hunt through the Gadsden Hotel. The Baker children, Sarah, 16, Merenzi, 12, Brandon, 11, and Chad, 9, roamed the halls of this historic landmark looking for spirits that checked in but never checked out.

Tracy Baker doesn’t believe in ghosts. Yet when her four children were bored and restless on a recent trip to Douglas, Baker sent them on a ghost hunt through the Gadsden Hotel. The Baker children, Sarah, 16, Merenzi, 12, Brandon, 11, and Chad, 9, roamed the halls of this historic landmark looking for spirits that checked in but never checked out.

The daily hustle and bustle that has been the trademark of Scottsdale Elks Lodge No. 2148 since the 1960s has been reduced to a whimper.

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced that an Arizona lodging company has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit involving a Yuma motel.

FLAGSTAFF — Self-help guru James Arthur Ray, charged with manslaughter for the Sedona sweat lodge deaths of three people, is taking his motivational messages to the Internet.

CAMP VERDE — Autopsy reports released Tuesday point to heat stroke as the cause of death for two people following a sweat lodge ceremony and multi-system organ failure for a third person.