Polygamist leader Jeffs still a force from jail
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HILDALE, Utah  - From a cell in the Purgatory jail 10 months after his arrest, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs is still God's voice on Earth to thousands of polygamists in this isolated community.
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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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Levar Haley Washington was finally free on parole after years in prison for robbery &#151; but unbeknownst to authorities, the Muslim convert was already plotting more serious crimes.
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Hurdles include his Mormon faith and convincing voters of his views on social issues.
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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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A federal grand jury in Utah on Wednesday indicted U.S. polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs on an additional charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
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The spurned husband whose arranged marriage is at the center of the rape-accomplice charges against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs took the witness stand to defend his prophet on Wednesday.
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After just a day of deliberations, jurors in the trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs told the judge Monday that they were deadlocked on one of the two counts but now may be close to a verdict.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was flown by helicopter Thursday to the Utah courthouse where his trial on rape-accomplice charges begins with lawyers laying out their cases for the jury.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, whose word was considered God's will to his fundamentalist church of breakaway Mormons, was convicted on Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape by forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin.
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A polygamist sect leader goes on trial in the US state of Utah accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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PHOENIX -- In 1999, Richard Kimsey and his wife, Susan, deposited $100,000 with a Phoenix-based Southern Baptist agency that promised to do the Lord's work. A few days later, the Kimseys' money had all but vanished. And when Richard Kimsey, a Southern Baptist pastor, spoke out against the foundation...
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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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Prosecuting Warren Jeffs on charges of rape as an accomplice could enhance, not diminish, the way the polygamist sect leader is revered by faithful followers, historians say.
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EPHRAIM, Utah - For more than a decade, a 9,000-member polygamist sect that believed civilization was about to end was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow.
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The leader of a polygamist sect had wigs, cash and cell phones -- but no guns -- when he was caught in a red Cadillac near Las Vegas, authorities said. Warren Steed Jeffs was on the FBI's Most Wanted List and faces sexual misconduct charges for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The leader of the largest U.S. polygamist sect who arranged a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin, told the girl it was her religious duty to give herself "mind, body and soul" to her husband, a Utah court heard on Thursday.