SALT LAKE CITY — Polygamy has essentially been decriminalized under a bill signed into law by Utah's governor. On Saturday, the governor signed Senate Bill 102 into law. It reduces the crime of ...

Advocacy groups for polygamy and individual liberties on Saturday hailed a federal judge's ruling that key parts of Utah's polygamy laws are unconstitutional, saying it will remove the threat of ...

Polygamy's legacy in Utah dates back to the 1840s, when members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, as the Mormon church is formally known, first settled in the state. But the practice never ...

which originally embraced polygamy but banned it in 1890. He is also charged with the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl whom he slept with many years ago. "My crime isn't so much being a polygamist ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge heard arguments on whether Utah can prohibit plural marriage but issued no immediate ruling in a lawsuit by the stars of the reality show “Sister Wives.” ...

She said Utah's longstanding anti-polygamy laws are not working. "Far from eliminating the practice of plural marriage, these government actions merely isolated polygamous families, drove them ...

The Utah state Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday effectively to decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults, reducing penalties for a practice with deep religious roots in the predominantly ...

The Jessops drifted apart in the 1950s and ’60s. Those Jessops who wanted polygamy and fundamentalism went to Hildale, Utah, and adjoining Colorado City, Ariz., to join what would become the ...

A federal appeals court has dismissed a legal challenge to Utah's polygamy ban brought by stars of the reality television show "Sister Wives." The challenge invoked last year's Supreme Court ...

Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial ... In addition to blocking the Utah Territory's petitions to join the Union, lawmakers passed ...

Polygamy wouldn’t be a felony crime in Utah for the first time in 85 years under a bill that passed the Legislature on Friday and appears to be supported by the governor. Lawmakers voted ...