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Ex-bodyguard files $100 million lawsuit against Warren Jeffs

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 2:47pm

LAS VEGAS -- The onetime spokesman for Warren Jeffs has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the polygamous sect leader, saying Jeffs asked him to falsify church records and arranged a break-in at his excavating business when he refused.

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Arizona bill targets police in polygamist enclave

Paul Davenport The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 5:10pm

PHOENIX — A bill advancing in the Arizona Legislature would abolish the police department in Colorado City, a northern Arizona community where state Attorney General Tom Horne says officers who are followers of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs flout the law.

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Jailed Warren Jeffs sends God's 'revelations' to newspapers

Matthew Waller Standard Times

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 1:38pm

A polygamist sect has launched an international media blitz, with ads claiming to be God's revelations running in papers across the United States and Canada.

The ads purport to be revelations from God through Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Having been convicted of the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl, Jeffs is serving a sentence of life plus 20 years in a prison in Palestine, Texas. The alleged revelations were written from Palestine, according to the ads.

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Imprisoned Jeffs imposes change on polygamous sect

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 3:20pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs may be serving a life-plus-20-year sentence in a Texas prison, but his grip on most of his 10,000 followers doesn't appear to be lessening and some former insiders say he's imposing even more rigid requirements that are roiling the church and splitting its members.

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Warren Jeffs' phone cut 90 days

Michael Graczyk The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 9, 2012 - 1:46pm

HOUSTON -- Texas corrections officials have cut off phone privileges of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs for 90 days for violating rules by making telephone calls that were put on speakerphone.

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Warren Jeffs' followers divided over loyalty orders

Matthew Waller Standard Times

Last updated Friday, January 6, 2012 - 11:53am

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- The New Year's deadline given to followers to prove their faithfulness to imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs came and went, and the dust has yet to settle.

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Jeffs is blocked from making any calls through the prison phone system pending the outcome of the investigation that’s likely to wind up in the next week or so. (Undated file photo).

Warren Jeff's phone use from prison suspended

Mike Graczyk The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 10:28am

HOUSTON — Texas prison officials have suspended indefinitely the phone privileges of convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs while they investigate whether he violated rules with improper telephone calls on Christmas Day.

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Jeffs might have preached to flock from prison

Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, December 30, 2011 - 10:16am

HOUSTON -- Texas prison officials are investigating whether jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs preached to his flock from prison on Christmas Day in violation of prison rules, officials told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday.

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Ex-polygamous sect spokesman convicted of contempt

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 7:04pm

ST. GEORGE -- A southern Utah judge has found the former spokesman for the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs guilty of a contempt of court charge for failing to show up for a pair of hearings.

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Polygamy ban in Canada upheld

Jeremy Hainsworth The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 1:58pm

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- A Canadian judge ruled Wednesday that the country's anti-polygamy law is valid and that the harms polygamy inflicts on women and children outweigh any claims to religious freedom.

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Utah drops case against Warren Jeffs

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 1:09pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah prosecutors dropped charges Wednesday against a polygamist sect leader serving a life sentence in Texas in a separate case.

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Ex-polygamist bishop given 10-year prison term

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 5:56pm

ROBERT LEE, Texas -- A former polygamist bishop convicted of marrying sect leader Warren Jeffs to a 12-year-old girl was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison.

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Attorney: FLDS 'sealing' not the same as marriage

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 4:27pm

ROBERT LEE, Texas -- An attorney for a polygamist ex-bishop told jurors that the act of "sealing" as practiced by a Warren Jeffs-led polygamous group differs from a marriage ceremony as defined by Texas law.

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Ex-bishop of polygamist sect goes on trial

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 10:25pm

ROBERT LEE, Texas -- A former bishop accused of marrying an underage girl to polygamist group leader Warren Jeffs goes on trial this week in Texas.

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Ex-FLDS president takes plea deal on bigamy charge

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 10:25am

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- A former leader in the polygamist church run by Warren Jeffs has pleaded no contest to charges of bigamy in exchange for probation.

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