Grand jury indicts polygamous leader
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A federal grand jury indicted the leader of a polygamous sect Wednesday, accusing him of fleeing to avoid prosecution on Utah sex charges.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Steed   Jeffs will face charges in Utah first, and then in Arizona,   prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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The trial is set to begin of a polygamist sect leader on charges he coerced a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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A federal grand jury indicted three people on charges of conspiracy, fraud, and aggravated identity theft related to a "high-tech" scheme to hijack online brokerage accounts.
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A federal grand jury indicted 39 defendants in an international money laundering case that includes one person accused of concealing terrorist financing, the U.S. attorney's office announced Thursday.
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Defense attorneys for a polygamous-sect leader charged with sex crimes in the arranged marriage of a 14-year-old girl and her older cousin began their case Tuesday, trying to debunk the contention that his church places women in submissive roles.
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A grand jury has handed down an indictment regarding the use of prostitutes to entice football recruits to the University of Colorado, The Denver Post reported yesterday.
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The fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect has been arrested in southern Nevada, the FBI said Tuesday.
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The self-proclaimed "prophet" of a polygamous clan in an isolated desert enclave at the border of Utah and Arizona goes on trial this week in St. George, Utah, accused of arranging a marriage between an unwilling 14-year-old girl and her cousin.
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PITTSBURGH - A woman accused of marrying two other men while still married to a western Pennsylvania man has been charged with bigamy, according to state police. Julia J. Bish, 34, of Hempfield, faces a preliminary hearing Tuesday on two misdemeanor bigamy charges.
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After 115 days on the FBI's most-wanted list and a year in solitary confinement in a jail called Purgatory, the leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect is going on trial in St. George, Utah.
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SAN DIEGO Oct. 6, 2004 - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a hunter who allegedly started the largest wildfire in California history.
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Utah court finds polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs guilty of forcing 14-year-old girl to marrying cousin.
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A Hampden County grand jury has indicted the Most Rev. Thomas L. Dupre, the retired Roman Catholic bishop of Springfield, on two charges of child rape.
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A criminal court case here paints a polygamist sect's leader as a controlling abuser who breaks up families and forces girls to marry men sometimes decades older.
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A US polygamist sect leader is convicted by a court in the state of Utah for forcing a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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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."