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A Texas judge has ordered the nation's largest child-custody case be severed into 234 individual cases, with separations based on biological mothers.

Andrade named secretary of state Gov. Rick Perry named former Transportation Commissioner Esperanza "Hope" Andrade as Texas' new secretary of state.

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"Earlier today the Schleicher County Grand Jury issued seven indictments containing nine counts of sexual assault, bigamy, and related charges against six individuals who are associated with the YFZ compound ...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott arrived in Eldorado for the second meeting of the grand jury considering possible criminal charges against a polygamist group.

Huff, Tucker David, Ricchi file final finance reports By Brandi Hart, McKinney Courier-Gazette Pete Huff, Sherry Tucker David and Ray Ricchi spent a combined $43,840.09 on their city council campaigns from June ...

Warren Jeffs married his underage daughter to the 34-year-old son of his chief deputy, one day after she turned 15, according to pictures, diaries and a marriage record kept by Jeffs' polygamist sect obtained ...

The Utah Attorney General's Office has declined to investigate an apparent hoax call that sounded similar to the phone call that sparked the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch.

An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman considered a person of interest in phone calls that may have sparked a raid on a Texas polygamist group after she didn't show up in court on the charges of ...

Barnshaw is teaching a sociology course at UD this summer titled "Crowds, Cults and Revolutions" in which he will examine the sociology of religion.

Polygamy-practicing fundamentalists with religious roots in early Mormon theology are rankled by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' campaign to direct the way news organizations define ...

Rozita Swinton did not speak of charge stemming from raid in Texas. It was "Jennifer" who landed Rozita Swinton briefly in El Paso County Court on a minor criminal offense Wednesday.

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Do we have to call it polygamy chic? The polygamist sect that drew the nation's attention in April when hundreds of children were seized in a raid at its Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Tex., has begun to ...

The head of the Texas department that removed about 440 FLDS children from their homes has announced he is retiring.

ELDORADO, Texas - Teresa Jeffs, the last of seven FLDS witnesses summoned to testify before a Texas grand jury today, left the courthouse this afternoon after spending about 40 minutes in the building.

The women of a polygamous sect are selling their distinctive handmade children's clothing online.

The head of the state agency that removed more than 400 children from a West Texas polygamist sect is retiring.

Church officials knew the sect's similar name and practice of polygamy - part of Mormon church life until it was banned more than a century ago - would cause people to confuse the two.

Women and girls in prairie-style dresses today entered the Schleicher County courthouse as a grand jury opened its investigation of a polygamist sect.