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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' sect casts out 1,500 members
COLORADO CITY, Ariz., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- 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.
Report: Warren Jeffs, in prison, bans sex
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A follower of Warren Jeffs said the polygamous church leader ordered his followers not to have sex while he is in a Texas prison.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- 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.
Ex-bishop of polygamist sect goes on trial
ROBERT LEE, Texas, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- 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.
Warren Jeffs released from hospital
HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been released from the hospital and returned to jail, Texas prison officials said.
Polygamist Jeffs hospitalized after fast
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Warren Jeffs, the polygamist sect leader and convicted child rapist, was in critical condition at a Texas hospital Monday after a fast, prison officials said.
PALESTINE, Texas, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Polygamist sect leader and convicted child rapist Warren Jeffs, 55, will be jailed in solitary for his own protection, Texas officials said Tuesday.
Sect leader Warren Jeffs gets life in prison
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- A Texas jury Tuesday sentenced polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs to life in prison for sex with underage girls he called "wives."
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Prosecutors presented more audio evidence to jurors Monday in the penalty phase of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs' child sex assault trial in Texas.
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Prosecutors say they will present more witnesses when the penalty phase of polygamous leader Warren Jeffs' trial resumes in Texas.
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