Driving the news: Samuel Bateman, the leader of an Arizona polygamous offshoot of the ... Flashback: Until the early 2000s, Colorado City — a small town on the Utah border with a long history ...

In Colorado City and Hildale, the place is clearly changing. There's new construction around every corner. Modern apartments sit next to homes and cinderblock walls built for FLDS polygamous families.

Sheriff's Office shows Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the ... based in the neighboring communities of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. The fundamentalist ...

Johnson Meeting House in Colorado City, Arizona ... Here in the 1920s and '30s, a handful of polygamous families settled astride the Utah-Arizona border after the leadership of the Mormon Church ...

In 2019 and 2020, insisting that polygamy brings ... Bateman’s home in Colorado City into protective custody. Eight of the children later escaped from foster care in Arizona, and were found ...