Polygamist leader Jeffs convicted in Utah
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - U.S. Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for arranging a marriage between an unwilling 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old first cousin in 2001.
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PUGHTOWN, Pennsylvania  - A lesbian Methodist  minister was found guilty by an ecclesiastical court on  Thursday of breaking church law by being openly homosexual.
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Even some of polygamist Warren Jeffs's critics are worried that his conviction is the start of a legal campaign against 'plural marriage.'
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A prosecutor urged jurors Friday to find polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty of being an accomplice to rape, saying "No means no."
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, a fugitive for nearly two years, appeared in a Utah courtroom Wednesday and said he was willing to wait several weeks for a judge to decide whether to send him to trial on charges of arranging an underage marriage.
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The Warren Jeffs trial has opened a window to a generation of street kids cast out from their polygamist communities
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In a twelve to one vote, a church jury assembled of fellow clergy has convicted the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud, an associate pastor with the First United Method Church of Germantown, for violating the denominationâs ban on gay clergy.
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A jury has reached a verdict in the rape-accomplice trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
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The polygamist "prophet" is found guilty of accessory to rape, a victory for a novel legal tactic focusing on child abuse
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs warned a teenage girl forced into a "spiritual marriage" to submit to sex with her husband or face "losing your salvation," Utah authorities claimed in an affidavit.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - Saying he was kicked out of his home and his fundamentalist church, an 18-year-old man sued Tuesday to force polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to help him reconnect with his family.
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  A judge is poised to sign a plan that will overhaul the Fundamentalist LDS Church's United Effort Plan Trust, which controls nearly everything in the polygamous border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.
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A former follower of a polygamous-sect leader sobbed on the witness stand Friday as she described the terror and despair she felt on the eve of her wedding at age 14, and said she became intensely depressed after having sex. "I kept thinking I felt like I was getting ready for death," she testified on the second day of the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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RENO, Nev., June 29 -- The husband of  Nevada state controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in her death.
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By JENNIFER DOBNER  SALT LAKE CITY - An 18-year-old man who says he was kicked out of his home and church filed a lawsuit seeking to force a polygamist church leader to help him get back in touch with his family.
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A US jury on Friday handed downa guilty verdict against double-murder suspect Scott Peterson for killing his pregnant wife to wrap up five months of a highlighted trial in California.