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Texas high court rejects Jeffs’ appeal By lindsay whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2012 05:28PM MDT The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused Wednesday to hear the case of imprisoned polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, rejecting a brief promising biblical consequences if he isn’t freed and exhausting his appeal options there. Jeffs, 56, was convicted in August of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 12 and 15, who...  

Critics say police in Colorado City, Arizona, ignore laws and remain loyal to jailed polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs. The Arizona Senate passed legislation that would abolish the police department there and end corruption, but it failed to pass in the House. CNN's Gary Tuchman reports.  

After a deliberating for less than an hour, a Texas jury found Wendell Loy Nielsen, a lieutenant of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, guilty of three counts of bigamy. He faces up to 10 years in prison for each count. Nielsen was accused of marrying three women in 2006 when they w …  

Utah Supreme Court won’t intervene in polygamous sect debt case By lindsay whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 30, 2012 04:39PM MDT The Utah Supreme Court has refused to block a judge’s order requiring the Attorney General’s office to pay more than $5.5 million in debts associated with running a polygamous sect property trust once controlled by Warren Jeffs. That doesn’t mean the taxpayers are on the hook just yet, though...  

Former polygamist wife “very, very” alone testifying on Jeffs By lindsay whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 12, 2012 07:41AM MDT When Rebecca Musser set out on what would become a four-year task of testifying against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs and his followers, it meant facing people she knew. “People I grew up with and I had a great deal of love for [were] looking at me as if I was Satan’s child,” she said...  

MIDLAND A former lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted Wednesday of illegally taking three wives besides his own, despite his attorney's argument that "celestial marriages" weren't forbidden by state law.A West Texas jury...  

AUSTIN, Texas — Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has filed a new appeal of his child ... “My people have endured persecution by government powers since Joseph Smith’s day on earth; and this nation is ripened for my full judgments, living ...  

PALESTINE, Texas — Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs issued a revelation calling for ... April 6 is a significant date in the history of Mormonism: it is the date that Joseph Smith founded the Mormon faith. The FLDS Church is a fundamentalist ...  

A jaw-dropping audio tape played in Warren Jeffs' sexual assault trial Tuesday shows the church leader instructing his sister wives that they must 'work together' to please him sexually. Mr Jeffs, the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of ...  

If Warren Jeffs -- pedophile/leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- had any marbles left when he was sent to prison, he just lost the rest of them.Jeffs, who'...  

"To date, Jeffs has not responded." The 10,000-member church that Jeffs heads is a breakaway Mormon sect that openly practices polygamy in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, as well as on its Yearning for Zion ...  

ST. GEORGE — A 5th District Court judge on Monday dismissed a child-custody case involving the half-brother of former polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs. Wallace Jeffs is trying to gain custody of his children after being excommunicated ...  

A West Texas polygamist who authorities said had multiple "celestial marriages" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Wendell Lloyd Nielsen, 71, was given a 10-year term on each of the three counts of bigamy for which he convicted and will ...  

SAN ANTONIO -- In the four years since Texas authorities swarmed the polygamist ranch of sect leader Warren Jeffs, state prosecutors have spent more than $4.5 million racking up swift convictions against him and 10 loyal followers on child sex ...  

A new 72-page packet of Warren Jeffs' revelations came into the Utah Attorney General's office today. They were all written prior to Feb. 10, and mostly repeats — I counted three that I hadn't seen before out of 16 total. Here they are and here's the ...