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Oct. 7, 2010

Jury Hits Publisher For Defaming Sheriff's Wife

A San Bernardino County jury slapped the owner of a High Desert newspaper chain with a $332,500 judgment, finding his papers defamed a woman who contracts with the county to counsel sheriff's deputies.

By Jason W. Armstrong

Daily Journal Staff Writer

A San Bernardino County jury slapped the owner of a High Desert newspaper chain with a $332,500 judgment, finding his papers defamed a woman who contracts with the county to counsel sheriff's deputies.

Jurors late Monday found that Raymond Pryke's small weekly newspapers ran a series of articles a decade ago that falsely claimed Nancy Bohl was feeding confidential detail...

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