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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polygamy is still illegal in all 50 states, including Utah. The bill in Utah, which has not even become law yet, simply takes jail time out of the punishment equation, yet it leaves polygamy illegal.

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 ...

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 ...