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In this Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017 photo, Donia Jessop holds her mayoral campaign sign outside her store in Colorado City, Ariz. Campaign signs are unusual in a town where elections have long been quietly decided behind the scenes, with hand-picked men from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints running unopposed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Town leadership shakeup looming in polygamous town

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017 photo, young girls play together in Colorado City, Ariz. The community on the Utah-Arizona border has been home for more than a century to a polygamous sect that is an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. The community is undergoing a series of changes as the sect's control of the town slips away amid government evictions and crackdowns. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Polygamous sect slowly losing control over remote Utah town

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2014, photo, a girl runs past a street sign in Hildale, Utah. The sister cities of Hildale and Colorado City, Ariz., once run by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, are split between loyalists who still believe he is a victim of religious persecution and defectors who are embracing government efforts to pull the town into modern society. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Warren Jeffs, polygamist leader, awaits fate, leaves Utah town sharply divided

By Brady McCombs - Associated Press

Utah court reverses polygamist’s convictions

By Rachel B. Duke - The Washington Times

Texas court rules against seizure at sect ranch