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February 5, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Polygamous sect leaders have paid nearly half of past-due property taxes owed on its state-controlled property trust, avoiding possible evictions and tax sales.
"I am encouraged by the partial payment of the property taxes, and hopeful the remaining... Full Story
February 14, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
An Arizona judge has refused to disqualify prosecutors in a public corruption case against a pair of polygamous border town officials, the Mohave Daily News is reporting.
Colorado City Fire Chief Jacob Barlow and town Manager David Darger each face ... Full Story
February 13, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Backed by the Utah attorney general, a state senator says he plans to introduce a bill that could decertify officers and possibly disband the police force in Hildale, a town largely populated by members of a polygamous sect.
Most of the residents a... Full Story
February 14, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
A judge has set a 90-day deadline for the state of Utah to pay more than $5.5 million in debts associated with a Warren Jeffs-led polygamous sect's communal property trust.
A Utah Attorney General's Office spokesman said officials are "dis... Full Story
February 17, 2012 • By Paul Foy And Brian Skoloff The Associated Press
He's eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into th... Full Story
February 17, 2012 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Congratulations to Bob Taylor, of Taylorsville, winner of The Salt Lake Tribune's cartoon caption contest this week.
Thanks to all who submitted captions. The winners and the runners-up were chosen by the newspaper's political cartoonist, P... Full Story
February 23, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
A judge Wednesday refused to require Arizona to help Utah pay off more than $5.5 million owed for management of a polygamous sect's property trust.
Since about half of the property once controlled by Warren Jeffs is located in Arizona, the Utah... Full Story
February 28, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Attorney General's Office has scored a point in the fight for control of a polygamous sect's property trust, securing a federal appeals court order that promises to add yet another chapter to the already voluminous legal battle.
... Full Story
March 2, 2012 • The Associated Press
San Angelo, Texas • A change is being made in the judge presiding over the bigamy trial of a former lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
The San Angelo Standard-Times (http://bit.ly/zTD10Q) reports state District Judge Barbara Walther o... Full Story
March 6, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah attorney general has appealed a judge's order to use taxpayer money to pay off more than $5.5 million in past-due bills for running a property trust once controlled by polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs.
In a petition for extraordinar... Full Story
March 8, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst And Mark Havnes The Salt Lake Tribune
Colorado City, Ariz. • Religion may divide them, but on Thursday, five young deaths touched all the overlapping communities in a region on the Utah-Arizona border known for polygamy.
Four teenagers and one adult were killed, and a sixth teen was ser... Full Story
March 9, 2012 • By Roxana Orellana The Salt Lake Tribune
The sole survivor of a rollover accident that killed four teenagers and one adult on a remote dirt road this week in northwest Arizona was "doing better," the girl's father said Friday.
Dan Timpson said his daughter, 16-year-old Nakita Timpson,... Full Story
March 13, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Police released new details Tuesday about a car crash that killed four teenagers and an adult south of Colorado City, Ariz., last week.
The five died after they were thrown from a Chevrolet Suburban on a remote dirt road between 11 p.m. and midnight... Full Story
March 15, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
A former Salt Lake County manager who oversaw a home for a polygamous sect's "Lost Boys" has been indicted for allegedly giving more than $95,000 in overpayments and bonuses to employees, including one with whom he allegedly had a sexual relatio... Full Story
March 22, 2012 • The Associated Press
Midland, Texas • Prosecutors are accusing a former lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of illegally marrying at least three women in addition to his legal wife.
Wendell Loy Nielsen's trial on three counts of bigamy began with openi... Full Story
April 2, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst And Lisa Schencker The Salt Lake Tribune
Colorado City, Ariz. • Thomas Barlow was about 16 when his education came to a halt.
"I wasn't done with school, I didn't feel like I was finished. I wanted to keep going," said Barlow, a voracious reader who as a child devoured biographies... Full Story
April 2, 2012 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Many, if not most, children who are taught by their parents at home, instead of by professional teachers at school, learn enough to succeed as adults. Some excel and go on to high achievement in college or careers. Most end up about average, as most ... Full Story
April 3, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Despite being at odds over a judge's order to pay more than $5.5 million in past-due bills, the Utah Attorney General's Office and the court-appointed administrator of a polygamous sect's property trust are starting to negotiate.
The... Full Story
April 12, 2012 • By Melinda Rogers The Salt Lake Tribune
The former administrator for Salt Lake County's AmeriCorps program pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to charges of mishandling funds during an eight-year tenure in which he allegedly paid employees for hours not worked and aw... Full Story
April 16, 2012 • By Lindsay Whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Supreme Court justices closely questioned why they should immediately halt a judge's order requiring the Utah Attorney General to pay more than $5.5 million in debts associated with running a polygamous sect's property trust.
"What&ap... Full Story
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