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Texas authorities on Wednesday began looking for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, in a child sex-abuse case that the group’s spokesman alleged was a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch.
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A Texas grand jury has indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and five of his followers.
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A grand jury has indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and five of his followers. Jeffs, who was indicted Tuesday, is accused of sexual assault. The charges and...
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A grand jury reconvened Tuesday to consider possible criminal charges against members of a polygamist sect raided in April.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is back in an Arizona jail.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has been released from a Las Vegas hospital, one day after he was found weak and feverish in his Arizona jail cell.
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A sheriff’s official says polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found “convulsive” and feverish in an Arizona jail cell before being hospitalized...
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken from jail in Arizona to a Las Vegas hospital for what the sheriff described as a serious medical problem.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs has been taken from jail to a Las Vegas hospital for an unspecified medical problem.
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The head of the Texas agency that removed more than 400 children in the raid of a polygamist group is retiring.
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Nancy Dockstader, left, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, embraces her daughter Amy, 9, after they were reunited at the Baptist Children’s Home Ministries Youth Camp near Luling, Texas, Monday, June 2, 2008. A...
