In August 2019, an anonymous tipster reported that a company located in Portage, Utah, was illegally dumping chemical waste in ponds, sewers, storm drains, and on the ground and had been doing so intentionally for months. Later that month, a…[Continue Reading...]
Idaho officials have issued an Amber Alert for two missing teens who may be heading to Utah over their "religious beliefs," according to authorities and local reports. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office believes Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and Rachelle Leray…[Continue Reading...]
MONTEVIEW — Police are advising the public that a brother and sister last seen in this East Idaho town may be headed to a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints group in Utah. Idaho State Police issued an…[Continue Reading...]
GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (Northern News Now) - A jury trial begins in Cook County Tuesday over proceeds from a plot of land formerly owned by a polygamous sect leader and his family. The land in question is near Grand Marais…[Continue Reading...]
Officials have released the name of a woman who died Tuesday night after being pulled from a Boise Bench waterway. Boise police and fire rescue units found the woman “fully submerged” in the Ridenbaugh Canal near the 2900 block of…[Continue Reading...]
Move over, Sister Wives! The 13th Wife: Escaping Polygamy is the “ripped from the headlines” crazy true story of Rena Chynoweth (Felicity Huffman), who was forced to become the thirteenth wife of Ervil LeBaron (Eric Johnson), the head of a…[Continue Reading...]
Angela and Cade Johnson were married at a laundromat in 2003 when she was 16 and he was 19. They exchanged vows not by choice, but because the notorious polygamist cult they grew up in — the Fundamentalist Church of…[Continue Reading...]
Angela Johnson revealed what her childhood in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) was really like A nurse has told how she managed to flee a notorious polygamous cult which makes members completely 'isolated from the…[Continue Reading...]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4) — On Monday, Feb. 10, a southern Utah man with connections to the FLDS religion was arrested for several sexual crimes. Officials believe more victims may come forward, according to arrest documents. Lehi Rulon Jeffs, 20,…[Continue Reading...]
HILDALE, Utah — The Short Creek communities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona are closer to Zion National Park than I knew. The Smithsonian Butte Scenic Back Country Byway begins just outside of Zion and ends in the town…[Continue Reading...]
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