Posted: 5:01 PM- KINGMAN, Ariz. - Lawyers for imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs asked a judge to drop incest charges Friday afternoon in a Mohave County, Ariz. courtroom, but the judge did not rule on the request.
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Posted: 10:05 AM- The cost of the April raid on the Yearning for Zion ranch has cost Texas nearly $7.5 million so far, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
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Posted: 2:36 PM- Another Colorado colony of the polygamy-practicing Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has taken root, this one at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 50 miles west of Pueblo.
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CHARTING
POLYGAMY LEADERSHIP
Splinter groups have embraced polygamy and branched out to communities
in Utah, Montana, Arizona, southern Canada and Mexico. (A 2.3 mb PDF
file download)
ORIGINS
OF POLYGAMY
Polygamy's origins in Utah go back to the 1800s.
A look at its origins and continuing practice among fundamentalist
Mormon sects (through 2004).
BY
THE NUMBERS
A side by side statistical comparison of two
modern polygamist communities and the states as a whole.
