British Columbia’s highest court upheld the country’s 121-year-old criminal law banning polygamy. By Ian Austen Warren S. Jeffs is accused of sexual assault of a child and of bigamy. By James C.

A group of polygamists, with their blond child brides and 19th century doctrine of plural marriage being the pathway to heaven, were forced out their compound here in 2014, and scattered to the west.

Around this time of year, attorney Carmen Dusek finds herself thinking about a woman named Merrianne. Ten years ago, law enforcement officers and Child Protective Services investigators, acting on a ...

Ten years ago this week, an armed raid of the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside of Eldorado, Texas, led to the dramatic downfall of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, chaos within his Fundamentalist ...