Polygamy

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.

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.

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.

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.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Reality TV stars Kody Brown and his four wives say they just want one thing: to be left alone.

As authorities investigate them for bigamy, the TLC "Sister Wives" family is asking a federal judge to overturn part of Utah's bigamy law because it bans them from living together and criminalizes sexual relationships between unmarried consenting adults.

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.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The daughter of a Utah polygamous sect leader involved in four 1988 Texas murders has pleaded guilty to a federal contempt charge, ending a decades-long family crime saga.