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Polygamous community targets outsider for police chief

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - This Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, file photo shows the mountains surrounding Hildale, Utah, and its sister city, Colorado City, Ariz., at sunset in a community on the Utah-Arizona border that has been home for more than a century to a polygamous sect that is an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. The new mayor of a mostly polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border is finishing off a complete overhaul of municipal staff and boards after mass resignations when she took office in January to become the first woman and first non-member of the polygamous sect to hold the seat. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Most municipal workers quit in Utah polygamous sect town

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

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)

Polygamous town elects first mayor who’s not part of sect

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