HILDALE, Utah — Marion Timpson's own marriages reflect Utah's recent legal battles over polygamy. "I married Holly in 2005 and Katie in 2013, and I married Lisa in 2014," the polygamist said ...

The Utah attorney general's office, and every county attorney who has been asked, has said it will not prosecute a polygamist unless there is violence or fraud happening within the household.

Utah has a long and turbulent history with polygamy. The practice of plural marriage was officially abandoned by the Mormon Church -- which is headquartered in the state -- in 1890 as a condition ...

Here's the back story: Utah's relationship with polygamy is complicated. It has been banned since the state was a territory, but the law often had a don't-ask-don't-tell quality about it.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 17 (UPI) --The Utah Senate has moved to approve a bill that would reclassify polygamy among consenting adults from a felony offense to an infraction. The measure ...

Making it an infraction would put it on par with getting a traffic ticket. Polygamy has been practiced in Utah by certain religious groups since before it became a state and continues to persist ...

LAS VEGAS — Advocates for so-called plural marriages are applauding a ruling by a U.S. District Court judge that struck down key segments of Utah’s anti-polygamy law, saying they violated ...

But the driving force behind the milestone was arguably Utah’s fight to preserve polygamy — a practice under new attack after the end of the Civil War. “Women’s suffrage and polygamy were ...

Everyone from practicing polygamists to the Mormon church — which shunned the practice more than a century ago — are anxiously anticipating the fallout from the show about a Utah polygamist ...

Utah’s current polygamy law is already stricter than laws in other states because it bars married people from living with a second purported “spiritual spouse” even if the man is legally ...

Utah lawmakers on Monday unanimously approved a bill that would decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults, despite arguments from opponents who said the law could potentially embolden abusers.

By Christine Hauser A new law that took effect in Utah this week has lowered the punishment for polygamy in some cases, making it an infraction similar to a traffic summons instead of a felony ...