SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Polygamy wouldn’t be a felony crime in Utah for the first time in 85 years under a bill that passed the Legislature on Friday and appears to be supported by the governor. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly for the proposal that supporters said will allow the 30,000 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a Utah death-row inmate who died in prison (all times local): 3:55 p.m. Author Jon Krakauer says he’s grateful that a Utah death-row inmate who killed his brother’s wife and her toddler has died of natural causes and won’t be executed by […]
HERRIMAN, Utah (AP) — The three women who were gunned down with six of their children in northern Mexico by suspected drug cartel members were remembered Tuesday as good people who loved their families and enjoyed quiet lives centered around a successful pecan farming operation south of the U.S. border. […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of U.S. citizens in northern Mexico (all times local): 5:25 p.m. Austin Cloes says his extended family members who were killed in a drug cartel ambush in northern Mexico loved their children and enjoyed quiet lives based around a successful pecan […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has allegedly suffered a mental breakdown and isn’t fit to give a deposition in a sex abuse case against him. The claim was made in a court filing last month by lawyers representing a community trust that once belonged to […]
CRANBROOK, British Columbia (AP) — A former leader in a fundamentalist Christian sect that practices polygamy in the Canadian province of British Columbia was found guilty Friday of taking an underage girl to be married in the United States. British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin said it is reasonable […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Arizona county has approved an investigation to determine if voter fraud occurred during last year’s election where a polygamous sect kept control of a town council in a community on the Arizona-Utah border The Mohave County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Monday to spend […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A bid to ban marriage for 15-year-olds in Utah has cleared its first hurdle with support from women who have left polygamous groups. Democratic Rep. Angela Romero had originally proposed a ban on all marriages under 18, but agreed to an amendment for older teenagers […]
GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) — A company tied to a man who led a polygamous sect’s South Dakota compound has purchased about 40 acres of land in northern Minnesota. Seth Jeffs is listed as registered agent for the company that acquired land west of the Lake Superior town of Grand […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous group based on the Utah-Arizona border is letting go of the sprawling building where its members worshipped, in the latest sign that the sect run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs is crumbling and losing control of the community it ruled for a century. […]
