Frank W. spent five years working for the Twelve Tribes religious sect and never took home a paycheck. The 65-year-old Tennessean worked many 12-hour days in various jobs across the country for the ...

A Plymouth man who was an “elder” with an international religious-based organization, was sentenced to decades in state prison after being convicted on child sexual abuse and assault charges last ...

A Plymouth man who was found guilty on 25 different indictments of sexual abuse in September will be sentenced in Fall River Superior Court Wednesday at 2 p.m., officials said. Nehemya Smith, 37, is ...

On a fall day in 1999, 19-year-old John I. Post packed up his birth certificate, Social Security card, state identification, favorite blanket and pictures of his family and prepared to leave the ...

Cañon City resident Andre Shepherd has lived a delicate truce with the Twelve Tribes ever since his ex-wife took their 3-year-old daughter and moved into the group’s Manitou Springs compound five ...

Standing in a circle, a group of Manitou Springs residents holds hands and begins to gyrate in a lively counterclockwise dance dedicated to Jesus. As musicians play acoustic guitars and flute, the 30 ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. − Two Cherokee tribes are asking the U.S. House of Representatives to delay the seating of a non-voting Cherokee delegate until considerations can be made for the two tribes that didn ...