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Self-help author convicted of negligent homicide has been sentenced to six years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of more than $57,000 to the families of the victims.

New Age practitioners in Sedona, Ariz., say the deaths of three people in a retreat last year have hurt business.

Authorities 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.

An Arizona homicide investigation now includes three deaths after a woman died more than a week after participating in a sweat lodge ceremony that hospitalized nearly two dozen people.

The deaths of two people during a sweat lodge ceremony led by self-help expert James Arthur Ray are being investigated as homicides, authorities said Thursday.