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Argus Press
April 23, 2018
City/Town;Weather Condition;High Temp (F);Low Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%);Chance of Precip. (%);UV Index. Bullhead City;Mostly sunny and hot;98;69;SE;11;13%;0%;9. Chandler;Mostly sunny, warm;96;63;ENE;5;11%;0%;10. Colorado City;Sunny and warm;79;49;NNE;15Ãâà...
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
April 23, 2018
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — A nationwide wave of teacher unrest spread to the southern Colorado city of Pueblo on Friday, as educators voted overwhelmingly to strike for better pay. ... Educators in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona have also staged strikes or high-profile protests in recent weeks.
AZCentral.com
April 4, 2018
A seam appeared along the state line Short Creek had long ignored. On the Arizona side, Colorado City's government was entirely FLDS believers. In Utah, Hildale's had just a handful left. Jessop's first meeting with Colorado City Mayor Joseph Allred left her with little hope of cooperation. “There's no trustÃâà...
Religion & Politics
March 27, 2018
The Short Creek area spills over the Utah-Arizona border and encompasses two formally incorporated towns: Hildale on the Utah side and Colorado City on the Arizona side. The territory was settled by FLDS members as a polygamous community after mainstream Mormons (the LDS Church) bannedÃâà...
Newsweek
March 15, 2018
Several thousand polygamy supporters from Colorado City, Arizona sit across the street from the Fourth District Courthouse, November 14, 2008 in St. George, Utah. An appeals court upheld the decision that a Utah company must compensate children from the FLDS sect who worked for them unpaid.
AZCentral.com
March 15, 2018
The decision marks a partial victory for both sides in the long-running case that centers on a 2012 harvest in the twin cities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona. The community is the home base of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an offshoot of mainstream MormonismÃâà...
KUTV 2News
March 12, 2018
The group has run the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, for more than a century and had total control of town governments until November's elections. The victory by Donia Jessop and wins by three other non-sect members for city council seats marked the latest sign of the polygamous group's waningÃâà...
Deseret News
March 10, 2018
In this Oct. 26, 2017, file photo, Donia Jessop holds her mayoral campaign sign outside her store in Colorado City, Ariz. Jessop, now the new mayor of a mostly polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border, is finishing off a complete overhaul of municipal staff and boards after mass resignations when sheÃâà...
Bustle
March 9, 2018
... very close to the state of Utah's southern border with Arizona. The FLDS has controlled Hildale for generations, but that's not the only border town the church has taken residence in ― it's also historically been based out of Colorado City, Arizona, a sister city to Hildale just across the Utah-Arizona border.
Salt Lake Tribune
March 8, 2018
But Mayor Jessop said all of them are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of FLDS, an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism that practices polygamy. The group has run the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, for more than a century and had totalÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
February 28, 2018
Under questioning, Jessop acknowledged preparing bids and speaking to contractors on behalf of Par 2 for commercial construction jobs from Arizona to Idaho. He also acknowledged visiting Par 2 sites in Cedar City, Utah, where the company was a subcontractor on an apartment complex, and Rexburg,Ãâà...
AZCentral.com
February 27, 2018
Arizona House Bill 2006, the proposal that originally would have banned child marriage, was amended to only prohibit marriages under the age of 16. ... children get marriage licenses in Arizona's more rural counties — including Mohave County, which includes the polygamous enclave of Colorado City.
Bradenton Herald
February 26, 2018
A company with ties to a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border changed its name and defied an order to stop using child labor in construction jobs, U.S. Department of Labor attorneys alleged Monday. The allegations, filed last September, are the latest wrinkle in a child labor case that dates to 2007.
Salt Lake Tribune
February 16, 2018
“The action was taken due to the political environment and opposition which has made it difficult if not impossible for Jerry to succeed,” Colorado City Town Manager David Darger wrote in an email to municipal employees the day after the meeting, “and the Town Council has found that it is in the bestÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
Court documents and interviews also describe how the FLDS controls the economy in Hildale and adjoining Colorado City, Ariz., collectively known as Short Creek. People who once belonged to the FLDS or its forerunner are trying to create a service and tourism economy in Short Creek and keep openÃâà...
fox13now.com
December 31, 1999
Sgt. Johnson with the Colorado City Marshal's Office said that his team and Arizona livestock officers are working to find the people responsible for the crime. “It's quite disturbing the condition we found the horse in,” Johnson stated. “I've worked with animals all my life and I've never seen something quiteÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 31, 1999
The FLDS' longtime home is along the Utah-Arizona line. Dee Jessop helped build and maintain a zoo that sat in Colorado City, Ariz., for years. Willie Jessop says the Bureau of Land Management once hired his brother to remove a crocodile found in a pond. Some children in the FLDS reported less fondÃâà...
St George News
December 31, 1999
The incident occurred between 8 p.m and 8:30 p.m. Sunday on a property just west of Colorado City, Arizona, where an unknown individual allegedly entered a privately owned field where cows were grazing, along with the 2-year-old horse. The gate to the pasture was left open, property owner JacobÃâà...
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