The fifth of eight women indicted in an Arizona child sex abuse ring was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for her role in recruiting young girls into illegitimate polygamous marriages with the ...

The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context of a rising conflict between Mormon leader Brigham Young and the federal government. When the Mormons had first arrived in the Salt Lake area ...

Reacting to anti-Mormon harassment, church leader Sidney Rigdon gave an intemperate July 4th oration in which he spoke of a "war of extermination" between Mormons and their neighbors. When those ...