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DSC baseball team involved in bus wreck
A Dixie State College charter bus transporting the school's baseball team was involved in an accident with a snowplow early Sunday morning approximately, five miles south of Colorado City, Ariz.
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Photojournalist Captures 'Polygamy In America' February 17, 2010 - Few knew much about the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints until April of 2008, when Texas law enforcement officials raided an FLDS compound called the Yearning for Zion Church, or Ranch.
Polygamous leader's diary mistakenly included in court case
Hundreds of pages from polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs' daily diary made their way from a court case involving UEP Trust fiduciary Bruce R. Wisan to an Internet blog this week -- only to be quickly pulled after Wisan's attorney acknowledged they were filed by mistake.
Polygamists
Dyskolos> isn't that an elvis? grilled peanut butter, bananas, and bacon? Dyskolos> although, i hear from reliable sources, that AB can really gyrate his pelvis !! XIV is around.
Ariz. lawmakers try again with anti-polygamy legislation
A loophole in Arizona's law against incest handcuffs officials wanting to crack down on polygamists who marry relatives under age 18, according to two state lawmakers.
Colorado City Makes Cover of National Geographic; Magazine Portrays FLDS as Over-Sexed Amish-Types
With fewer half-naked aborigines in the world to hang out with, National Geographic decided to spend some time last year with the polygamist clan north of the Grand Canyon.
How do you cover polygamy?
In Section: News Blog >> Posted By: Stephen Dark The current issue of National Geographic showcases some stunning photographs of fundamentalist Mormon polygamists down on the Utah/Arizona border and a worthy if somewhat pedestrian retread of a story many journalists have found themselves writing following their first trip to twin burgs Hildale and ...
Application deadline noon today for MCC seat
Applicants who live in the District 5 governance area of Mohave Community College are being actively sought for a recently vacated seat on the Board of Governors.
Marriages
Michael David Dockstader of Colorado City, Ariz. and Jessica Marie Zitting of Centennial Park, Ariz.
News Briefs: Sunday, December 20, 2009
MOHAVE COUNTY Blade trucks will be clearing roads in Meadview, Dolan Springs and Golden Valley this week, and maintenance crews will be repairing storm damage in Meadview, Pierce Ferry Road and Deer Canyon Road near Kingman.
Polygamist vs. Polygamist
Polygamist vs. Polygamist FLDS Church exiles battle for the hearts and homes of the polygamous faithful.
County seeks bids on projects
The county is looking for a few good contractors. The County Procurement Department put out an invitation for bids Monday on a test well for the new Colorado City Court Facility in the Arizona Strip.
Rulon Jeffs' estate seeks control of trust
Attorneys for the executor for the estate of deceased polygamous church leader Rulon Jeffs are asking a judge to remove a communal land trust from state control and return it to the church's governing body.
Comments
After the convictions of Raymond Jessop and Arkansas evangelist Tony Alamo on child sex abuse charges earlier this month, it was chilling to view "Damned to Heaven," a documentary about the long-term emotional and psychological damage faced by women forced into polygamist marriages.
Court site may get second look
The Board of Supervisors may revisit their decision on the new location of the Moccasin Consolidated Court in the Arizona Strip in the near future.
Touring polygamy town
Hildale/Colorado City ST GEORGE, Utah The Holm brothers say it is unlikely they will strike it rich offering tours of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah.
State ends watch over Colorado City district
For the first time in nearly four years, an Arizona school district serving a remote area of northern Arizona and southern Utah long dominated by a polygamist sect is no longer under state control.
Arizona may relinquish polygamist area district
A school district serving a remote area of northern Arizona and southern Utah long dominated by a polygamist sect is poised to emerge from a state takeover implemented nearly four years ago because it finances were in disarray.
FLDS renew focus on learning
Outside a classroom at North Mohave Community College, a group of students talks quietly as they wait for others to finish a chemistry test.

City Description

Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town was 4,607. At least three Mormon fundamentalist sects are said to have been based there. Colorado City, formerly known as Short Creek (or the Short Creek Community), was founded in 1913 by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The FLDS membership desired a remote location where they could practice plural marriage, which had been publicly abandoned by the LDS Church in 1890. On July 26, 1953, Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle sent troops into the settlement to stop polygamy in what became known as the Short Creek raid. The two-year legal battle that followed became a public relations disaster that damaged Pyle's political career and set a hands-off tone toward the town in Arizona for the next fifty years. In January 2004, the local religious leader, Warren Jeffs, expelled a group of twenty men, including the mayor, and gave their wives and children to other men. Jeffs