Citing the fight in Washington over insurance coverage for birth control, the state Senate voted Tuesday to provide new legal protections for professionals who act or refuse to do things that violate their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Citing the fight in Washington over insurance coverage for birth control, the state Senate voted Tuesday to provide new legal protections for professionals who act or refuse to do things that violate their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

"First: I’ve always preferred the Tribune, but I can’t find it: At Basha’s box: the very few copies run out within the hour, and Phase One no longer carry it at all. Very frustrating! Are you trying to cut corners?

SAN ANGELO, Texas - On June 11, 2008, top cops from Arizona, Nevada and Utah walked out of a meeting in Las Vegas excited about the prospect of banding together with federal authorities for a multistate effort to fight crimes related to polygamy.

The Arizona Attorney General's office alleges in a newly filed lawsuit that leaders in a polygamous community violated a disabled man's civil rights by denying him power and water service because he does not belong to the faith.

SALT LAKE CITY — Government agencies in twin polygamous communities along the Utah-Arizona border were served Tuesday with search warrants seeking evidence on suspected misuse of public funds, authorities said.

SALT LAKE CITY — After a decade-long moratorium, Mormon is back. The name, that is.

HILDALE, Utah — Former members of a polygamous church are offering outsiders a guided tour with promises to answer questions about the history and traditions of the community.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A court-appointed fiduciary has reversed a decision to reject a check for past-due housing fees from a southern Utah polygamous church.

ELDORADO, Texas - A grand jury on Wednesday indicted another three members of a polygamist sect that was the focus of a massive raid in west Texas during the spring.

SAN ANTONIO - The custody case that swept 439 children from a polygamist sect's western Texas ranch into foster care has largely evaporated, with state authorities dropping all but a few dozen cases against parents.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - The mother of a girl allegedly given in marriage at age 12 to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs refused to answer questions Monday from attorneys for the state child welfare agency that wants to regain custody of the girl and her younger brother.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - The judge who had her custody decision reversed on more than 400 polygamist sect children has ordered the case be broken up by mother, creating 119 separate child welfare cases.

Hundreds of children in the polygamous community of Colorado City are not getting an education, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said Thursday.

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Texas authorities began looking Wednesday for five indicted followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, men accused of sexual assault of a child, bigamy and failing to report child abuse.

ELDORADO, Texas - A Texas grand jury indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers Tuesday on charges of felony sexual assault of a child. Another was indicted for failing to report child abuse.

SALT LAKE CITY - 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 those sects.

LAS VEGAS - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was back in an Arizona jail cell Thursday, amid lingering questions about what prompted his hospitalization in Las Vegas for treatment of a "weakened state of health," a sheriff's official said.

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

“All of you people out there who complain about the environmentalists stopping oil drilling, are you aware that the oil in Alaska goes to Japan?”

SAN ANGELO, Texas - Parents' hopes of quick reunions with more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's ranch were dashed Friday after their attorneys and a judge clashed over proposed restrictions.

We voiced our support of Texas authorities a few days after they seized 440 children from a religious polygamy compound and placed them in temporary government custody across the state.

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