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Camp Verde teen turns himself in and admits to ‘killing a man’

On Dec. 26, a 16-year-old boy came to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office’s eastern substation and reported that he wanted to turn himself in for “killing a man.” The suspect reported that on or about Nov. 28, in a remote...

Drive safe, sing off-tempo and drink lots of water on New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve is Saturday, Dec. 31. After two previous lackluster New Year’s Eves — the first derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the second by apprehen­sion over the pandemic and vaccinations — most of us haven’t had a proper...

Interstate 17 to close overnight Thursday, Jan. 5, between Bumble Bee Road and Sunset Point

Traffic alert: Interstate 17 to close in both directions between Bumble Bee Road and Sunset Point overnight Thursday, Jan. 5 | Plan for delays of at least one hour Lane restrictions and ramp closures also scheduled next week, Jan. 3-7,...

‘To the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.’

As we are around the corner from a holiday that for roughly 2.38 billion people on Earth commemorates the birth of a poor carpenter’s son in a manger — because his parents, who migrated from Nazareth, had no place...

Sedona Shuttle is a great success at transporting air

Much of the difficulty with finding a solution to heavy tourist activity in Sedona arises from a misunderstanding about how most Americans and international visitors travel. Visitors centers are vital for the folks who still use them. For tourists in days...

Months-long traffic restrictions lifted in Oak Creek Canyon

The Arizona Department of Transportation has advised drivers that all traffic-control and vehicle-size restrictions will be lifted on State Route 89A in Oak Creek Canyon by the end of the day on Monday, Dec. 19. While SR 89A will be...

Act on traffic or just pray to Asphaltus, the deity of gridlocked roads

Every year we must deal with the murderbots. It’s not a big deal for most long-term residents. They come every spring, randomly vaporizing two residents a day for 90 days with their disintegrator ray guns. The deaths appear to be...

Be safe as three viruses make the rounds this winter: RSV, COVID-19, influenza

According to the American Heart Association, during the winter of 2020-2021, due to COVID-19 precau­tions and mask requirements, government restrictions on large gatherings and social distancing, reported flu cases sank to levels so low that the Centers for Disease...

Betsy and Michael Feinberg to serve 5 years for $5 million fraud

Michael Feinberg, 73, and Betsy Feinberg, 80, former Sedona residents now living in Tucson, were sentenced on Nov. 15, by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto, to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for...

Pay Sedona City Council for full-time work or not at all

At the last meeting of the Sedona City Council on Nov. 22, before the new council was sworn in on Monday, Nov. 28, the members of the council voted themselves a raise. To be fair, Sedona Mayor Sandy Moriarty...

About Me

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."
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