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A Warren Jeffs 'wife' runs away
ST. GEORGE, Utah, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- One of Warren Jeffs' plural wives escaped from the polygamist community of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., ex-members of Jeffs' sect say.
ELDORADO, Texas, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- A spokesman for a polygamist sect invited officials in a Texas county to come out to the group's compound and see it for themselves.
ELDORADO, Texas, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- A Texas grand jury investigating alleged crimes within a polygamous sect has indicted three people, a court clerk said.
ST. GEORGE, Utah, July 9 (UPI) -- A leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints has asked a Utah judge for a restraining order against a private detective hired by former members.
SALT LAKE CITY, June 17 (UPI) -- Utah law enforcement officials say they're going to keep talking with a polygamist Mormon sect after it announced it would oppose underage marriages.
Polygamists agree to marriage restrictions
SAN ANGELO, Texas, June 3 (UPI) -- Leaders of a Texas polygamist sect have agreed to restrictions on underage marriage that will allow an estimated 430 children to be released from foster care.
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- An elder of the polygamist sect in Texas that was raided last month complained to the White House that the state has perpetrated "terrorist acts" on the group.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 30 (UPI) -- Children found by Texas officials at the polygamist ranch in Texas suffered broken or fractured bones, a protective services official testified Wednesday.

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