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Defenders of Children ask board for rental
Monday, May 19th, 2008Via: Today’s News-Herald
Colorado City tops a very light agenda for the Mohave County Board of Supervisors today.
The board is being asked to rent space in county facilities to Defenders of Children, so they may provide free and reduced-fee legal services for low income families with children.
The non-profit organization recently received a federal grant to [...]
Certification revoked for Hildale, Colorado City Marshals
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Via the Salt Lake Tribune
The board also revoked the certification of former Hildale and Colorado City, Ariz., marshals Fred Barlow and Preston Barlow. The two marshals, which worked in the polygamist community on the Utah-Arizona border, already have been decertified in Arizona. They were found to have written to the community’s leader, Warren [...]
Playing against prejudice: Teams from FLDS area face plenty of obstacles
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Via http://deseretnews.com
COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — The insults hurled at the kids were cruel.”Plyg kids!” they would shout. “Go home to your wives!”The players on the El Capitan School basketball teams just ignored it.”They’d try to pick fights at us and throw snowballs at us,” said 14-year-old David Hammon. “I don’t really mind, ’cause it makes [...]
I shared hubby with 5 cult wives
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008“When Carolyn Jessop sums up the first 35 years of her life, she calls it a “horror story”.
But then beatings, polygamy and even child cruelty were part and parcel of her existence in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints cult.”
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Sect Members Are Offered Their Own Homes
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 HILDALE, Utah (AP)
Roger Wyler has something almost no one else here does — a deed to his home.For more than 60 years, all the land and all the homes in the dusty, side-by-side towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., belonged not to the residents, but to a trust set up by their [...]
Judge appoints 3 to trust advisory board
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007A 3rd District Court judge has appointed three new members to an advisory board managing most of the homes and property in the polygamist-dominated cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. They are all former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which follows a 19th-century version of Mormonism [...]
Stores in Colorado City settle discrimination suit
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007PHOENIX (AP) — The owners of two Colorado City restaurants that allegedly refused to serve former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have settled a civil rights lawsuit filed by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
Attorney General Terry Goddard filed the suits in June, alleging that the owners and staff [...]