Schleicher County News

Chevron Midcontinent LP has retained The Oil & Gas Asset Clearinghouse to sell Ramon Field in Schleicher County, Texas, in a negotiated transaction.

Carolyn Jessop, author of a best-selling book about her life as a plural wife in a controversial polygamous sect, wants a Utah judge to order the father of her eight children to financially support them.

A hearing on whether documents, family photos and other evidence seized at a polygamist group's West Texas ranch should be excluded from the trials of sect men accused of bigamy and underage marriages concluded Saturday, but no decision was made.

In this April 6, 2008 file photo, members of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are assisted by law enforcement officials as they board a bus to relocate them from Eldorado, Texas, to San Angelo, Texas.

Sect men seek ruling on search Attorneys for 10 members of a polygamist sect facing criminal charges on Wednesday accused law enforcement officials of lying by omission when they sought permission to search the Yearning for Zion Ranch for evidence of child abuse and underage marriages.

The last child to be released from foster care, according to Patrick Crimmins of Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, is the 14 year old former 'wife,' of jailed FLDS 'prophet' Warren Jeffs.

It was revealed Tuesday at the Texas House Human Services Committee hearing that a court filing today would provide more detail about the still-murky backstory of what occurred in the five days between the initial hoax phone call to a San Angelo women's shelter and the legal and political catastrophe that became the Great Eldorado Polygamist ...

Legislators hammered the spokesman for a polygamous sect during his appearance Tuesday before a Texas House committee, making clear they believe underage marriages took place at the YFZ Ranch and that FLDS members living there lied repeatedly about it and obstructed the state's investigation of alleged sexual abuse.

Texas Rangers deliberately misled a judge into authorizing the search of the Yearning For Zion Ranch by leaving out key facts, attorneys for polygamist sect members alleged in court filings this week.

For Patricia Johnson, the difference between her April 2008 visit to Fort Concho and her trip there Friday was night and day.

Reports say members of the FLDS polygamist sect are planning an event today to mark the first anniversary of the raid in which more than 400 children were removed from its ranch in Schleicher County.

A closer look inside Yearning for Zion, the West Texas retreat a polygamist sect regarded as its safe haven 1 year ago this week 439 children were removed from ranch in raid By PAUL A. ANTHONY San Angelo Standard-Times Saturday, March 28, 2009 EAGLE LAKE - YFZ RANCH, Schleicher County - Nancy Barlow is an American housewife.

The state's tab for DNA testing to determine family relationships is close to $60,000, or about $97 each on average for 599 samples.

If another call came in summoning Child Protective Services to the gates of the YFZ Ranch, the agency wouldn't hesitate to respond.

A potholder, sand art and the hug of a child: One year later, they are the simple tokens the three women seated around a conference room table carry with them.

It was called the place of refuge - hundreds of acres in Schleicher County, Texas as isolated from the world as the people who would live there.

A 14-year-old girl alleged to be a bride of Warren Jeffs received text messages while in state custody telling her to "please stay angry" and to "keep crying, pout, sleep in," according to a report filed by ...

An Arizona judge may end up ruling on whether evidence seized by law enforcement officers during the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch is legal.

Even after eight hours in a Schleicher County courtroom Friday, the deposition of YFZ Ranch leader Merril Jessop may not be over.

A top member of a Texas polygamist sect and the group's spokesman have been subpoenaed and are scheduled for court depositions Friday and Monday, according to court officials.