ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - May 21, 2008 Guy Jessop, a guard at the main gate of the dusty ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, greeted two Child Protective Service ...

State officials are seeking custody of more than 400 children taken from a polygamist ranch in West Texas two weeks ago. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is trying to ...

Authorities continue investigation of polygamist ranch after raid. Children play at Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas where members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are ...

A Texas appeals court overturns a lower court ruling that placed more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch in state custody. It's unclear if state authorities will appeal to the Texas Supreme ...

The state of Texas did not have authority to remove some of the more than 450 children from the Yearning for Zion ranch located outside Eldorado, Austin's Third Court of Appeals ruled on May 22. In a ...

SAN ANGELO, Tex. -- For nearly two months, Texas child welfare officials had insisted conditions at a polygamist group's ranch were so abusive that none of its members should be allowed to keep their ...

A Texas appeals court ruled today that state child welfare authorities had no right to seize dozens of children living at the ranch of a polygamist religious sect, saying they were in no immediate ...

SAN ANTONIO -- A dozen girls were sexually abused at a polygamist group's ranch targeted in a high-profile raid last spring, and parents neglected more than 250 other children living there by doing ...

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.

DALLAS (Reuters) - Authorities have now removed 401 children from a remote ranch in west Texas belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, local media ...