Many of the residents of the Yearning for Zion Ranch have since left. Nov. 28, 2012 — -- It was once a gleaming symbol of a bizarre, hidden world -- a Texas compound where authorities say Warren ...

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In a darkened theater, the disembodied voice of Warren Jeffs lulls its listeners into a kind of sedation with its trance-like monotone and rolling, rhythmic cadence. Once it seeps inside a mind, the ...

ELDORADO, Texas -- More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorities described Monday as the largest child-welfare ...

ELDORADO, Texas — Child welfare officials are scrambling to find foster homes for dozens of girls removed from a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a ...

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a four-part series diving into the facts behind one fundamentalist Mormon group’s presence, and aftermath of another, the southern Black Hills of South Dakota ...

Warren Jeffs, meanwhile, had taken some of his late father's wives as his own and married additional women and girls, including some as young as 12, on his way to fathering an estimated 60 children ...