HOUSTON (AP) – A former top lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs who was sentenced last year to a decade in prison is scheduled to be released on parole next week, Texas prison officials ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) – 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 ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a religious sect that broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as ...

After reviewing the evidence and testimony proffered during hearings in district court, the Texas Supreme Court ruled May 29 that it is “not inclined to disturb” last week’s 3rd Court of Appeals‘ ...

More than a year after Texas officials descended on the Yearning For Zion Ranch, removing a polygamist sect's 439 children after finding underage brides, the first criminal trial tied to the raid ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — A state appellate court has ruled that child welfare officials had no right to seize more than 400 children living at a polygamist sect's ranch. The Third Court of Appeals in ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Families of children seized from their polygamist sect's ranch could flee Texas if they regain custody, child welfare authorities said Tuesday as they urged the state Supreme Court to ...

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GRAND MARAIS, Minn. — The imprisoned leader of a notorious polygamist sect fraudulently transferred $834,000 to his brother in an effort to hide the money from one of his victims. That was the verdict ...