State Rep. Tim Goodwin, R-Rapid City, whose district includes the FLDS compound, called last year for a legislative study of the compound and what is occurring there. Goodwin’s proposal for a ...

“All of a sudden I end up on the old FLDS compound, and so that was a bit spooky for me at first,” he said. Schmidt was hired to run a project. At the time he arrived, it was a house of hope ...

CUSTER COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) — The compound previously owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) has a new owner. In 2021, the compound was purchased at ...

The compound has multiple dorm-like structures ... He said he was born in the FLDS and left the church about 15 years ago. He said he’s previously been to the property but didn’t see it ...

A South Dakota judge’s ruling has confirmed that children were born on a remote Black Hills compound run by a secretive religious sect, offering new insight into life within the polygamous FLDS.

An “Explainer” determines how the FLDS maintained a male-female ratio that allowed men to have three wives. When Texas authorities seized 416 children in a raid on a compound of the ...

FLDS leaders invited the media back to historic Fort Concho on Friday. There, they showed off the place where mothers and children were forced to live the first few days, along with an audio ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Odd things happen to the closest neighbors to a religious sect in Custer County. For instance, one time the sect's leaders offered Karl and Suzanne Von Rump $1,000 to go on ...

Seth Jeffs was arrested at the FLDS compound near Pringle, South Dakota. “This indictment is not about religion,” said U.S. Attorney John Huber in Salt Lake. “This indictment is about fraud.” ...

State officials have removed 416 children from the gated Yearning for Zion compound in the West Texas ... got a tad tense on Saturday night after FLDS members initially refused to let ...

Warren Jeffs's compound is now a sober living house ... but the couple also hoped to help former FLDS members transition out ...