POLYGAMIST WARREN JEFFS ARRESTED
Warren Steed Jeffs, the fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect and one of the FBI's 10 most wanted, was arrested in a traffic stop outside Las Vegas, the Nevada Highway Patrol said on August 29, 2006. (UPI Photo/FBI/HO)
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Warren Jeffs, the polygamist serving life in prison for sexually assaulting two girls, still leads the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Texas, former followers said.
Texas Wednesday moved to seize the ranch in Eldorado where polygamist Warren Jeffs and others sexually abused children.
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Texas jurors found former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader Wendell Loy Nielsen guilty on three counts of bigamy Wednesday.
Lawyers selected a jury Wednesday in the Texas bigamy trial of former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader Wendell Loy Nielsen.
An Arizona judge says he will not disqualify prosecutors in a case against two officials in a corruption case.
The polygamist sect led by the jailed Warren Jeffs cast out about a quarter of his followers, members of the Colorado City community said Wednesday.
A follower of Warren Jeffs said the polygamous church leader ordered his followers not to have sex while he is in a Texas prison.
A state judge, in a decision made public Monday, again ruled Utah has to pay more than $5 million to the administrator of a polygamous sect's property trust.
A prosecutor in Texas said she will prove a former bishop of a polygamist sect performed an illegal marriage between a 50-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl.
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