It’s a few days after his turn on the witness stand, and Jessop has agreed to give a tour of the two FLDS towns at the center of the federal case. Together, they make up Short Creek, where ...

Short Creek is most known for being the home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) — an extremely strict and insular church that believes in the practice of ...

Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah together are known as Short Creek, an isolated community where many followers of the FLDS church live. Credit: George Frey The strategy worked. By the time ...

The area, along with Colorado City just over the state border in Arizona, is called Short Creek, and its history as an FLDS settlement goes back almost 100 years. But it’s the more recent ...

"Short Creek", as residents call the border towns ... who after his father’s death in 2002 had become the leader of the FLDS and its prophet, creates a large split in the community when he ...

A former member of the FLDS faith, born and raised in the border towns the locals refer to as Short Creek, said the tragedy has rocked the community beyond words. "It can't even be quantified ...

The FLDS was able to flourish in a remote enclave nestled along the border of Utah and Arizona near Zion National Park in a community called Short Creek. In the FLDS community, the most important ...

With the FLDS on the brink of extinction, Short Creek is now a place to score fresh sushi, a good amber ale and maybe a room for the night in a comfy resort. There is a spacious new grocery store ...

"Short Creek", as residents call the border towns ... who after his father’s death in 2002 had become the leader of the FLDS and its prophet, creates a large split in the community when he ...