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FILE - This April 20, 2006 file photo shows Hildale, Utah sitting at the base of red rock cliff mountains with its sister city, Colorado City, Ariz. in the foreground. Sen. Curt Bramble, a Utah senator wants to disband the police department that serves the Utah-Arizona border towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Ariz., dominated by followers of jailed polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

Judge orders $5.5 million polygamy trust payment

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 2:56pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- A judge has given Utah's attorney general 90 days to pay off more than $5.5 million in debts incurred by managers of a communal land trust once run by jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.

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Accountant wants Utah to pay FLDS land trust debts

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 13, 2011 - 9:06am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The court-apppointed accountant for a land trust once run by jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs wants Utah taxpayers to pay $4.6 million in debt incurred for trust management.

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner) Joseph Trotter assembles his saxophone at band practice. Band is just one activity funded by the school land trust. Schools throughout the state receive funds.

Community councils guide Utah schools, determine how to spend land trust funds

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Friday, February 4, 2011 - 12:26am

OGDEN -- Thursday was a busy day at Polk Elementary School. School starts early for some sixth-graders in a school band. Others spend an hour of their day with an art specialist, while about 200 others participate in the school's science fair. These varied activities are funded with money from the school land trust allocated to a special group called the community council.

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Idaho lands plan meets opposition

The Lewiston Morning Tribune, William L. Spence

Last updated Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 10:56am

BOISE -- Concerns about government competition with the private sector could stymie a plan to double the revenue generated by Idaho state trust lands.

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