Polygamist leader ordered to stand trial
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A polygamist church leader accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry and have sex with an older cousin in 2001 was ordered Thursday to stand trial.
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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. The one-count indictment covers a five-month period in 2006, although Warren Jeffs was believed to be on the run for a longer stretch before his arrest in August during a traffic stop near Las Vegas.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Â The newly elected leader of South Africa's ruling party was ordered to stand trial on corruption and other charges next year, raising doubts about whether the party would back his candidacy for the 2009 presidential election.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren   Jeffs, who was arrested last week after two years on the run,   made his first Utah court appearance on Wednesday by   closed-circuit TV and told a judge he understood the charges   against him.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A Congolese warlord accused of sending child soldiers to fight in a vicious tribal conflict was ordered yesterday to stand trial, becoming the first suspect ever to face judgment before the International Criminal Court.
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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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A judge has ordered a man accused of abducting and trying to extort money from Garth Brooks' former wife to stand trial.
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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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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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A French judge investigating the disappearance of four French citizens during the 1973-90 dictatorship of Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet ordered 17 former regime officials to stand trial in Paris, judicial officials said Wednesday.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island was the first of seven men accused of sex abuse to stand trial yesterday as the historic case got under way in the Pacific outpost.
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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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Troubled rocker Courtney Love has been ordered to stand trial on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon after her alleged victim testified in a Los Angeles court.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah -- The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
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The Game was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on three felony charges after he allegedly pulled a gun during a pickup basketball game at an educational center in South Los Angeles.
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The woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta Jones will have to stand trial, Los Angeles Superior judge Patricia Schnegg ordered Wednesday.