For decades, the tiny towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, were home to an abusive religious sect. With the ...

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 ...

officials raided an FLDS compound in Texas and took away hundreds of women and children. Jessop traveled to Texas to serve as a spokesman for the church, he claimed. The defense challenged the ...

Nearly three months after the state raided the FLDS compound in Eldorado and took hundreds of kids into custody – as it turns out, in violation of the law – the FLDS families are still trying ...

Jeffs named the compound the YFZ Ranch (or "Yearning for Zion" Ranch). "People were slowly disappearing [from Short Creek] at that time," said Charlene Jeffs, a former FLDS member who was then ...

The FLDS split from the main Church of Jesus Christ ... A call to a phone listing for him was not immediately returned Thursday. A compound that he once led in South Dakota’s Black Hills was ...

Lyle Jeffs, a leader in the FLDS church at the time, was also arrested for SNAP fraud, serving nearly five years before being released in 2017. The third brother, Warren, for whom the compound ...

Early in his imprisonment, his calls — in which he gave orders to his church — would be broadcast over loudspeakers at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a massive FLDS compound that Jeffs built in ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) -In the fall of 2021, Marty and Jen Mechaley had no idea their lives were about to change when they met 10 strangers in Custer, and they never would’ve guessed they’d ...

Now FLDS uses “keep sweet” as a reminder to tamp down your emotions. Deseret Morning News//Getty Images The polygamous compound. Jeffs banned most forms of entertainment. Two former FLDS ...

In 2021, a judge ordered a 140-acre compound in Pringle, South Dakota, which is owned by the FLDS, to be sold, per ABC affiliate KOTA. At that time, authorities told the outlet there were only ...