ELNA BAKER is 28-years-old. She’s been living in New York City since moving there at 18 years of age to go to university. She’s five foot 10 inches and beautiful. She’s a comedian. In conversation, she has a self-deprecating charm and ready wit that makes her disarmingly attractive.

A MISSOURI man and his four sons were charged with the ritualistic sexual abuse of his six grandchildren and police were yesterday searching the family farm for bodies that may be buried there.

An estimated 1,000 protesters have taken to the streets over California’s new ban on gay marriage as the political turmoil and legal confusion over who should have the right to wed deepens.

THE Mormon community in Ireland have moved to quell concerns about their practice of baptising dead Catholics into the Mormon faith.

A Texas grand jury indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers today, on charges of sexual assault of a child.

A mother taken from a polygamist sect in Texas and being held as a minor in state custody has given birth to a baby boy who was immediately taken into protective custody.

A Texas appeals court agreed today to hear arguments that hundreds of children the state took from a polygamist compound should be allowed to see their mothers while the massive custody case is resolved.

A Texas appeals court agreed today to hear arguments that hundreds of children the state took from a polygamist compound should be allowed to see their mothers while the massive custody case is resolved.

A child welfare worker told a court early today that numerous women at a polygamous church ranch in West Texas may have had children when they were as young as 13.

Police in Texas today defended their handling of a raid on the giant headquarters of a polygamist sect.

Two world religious leaders, the Greek Orthodox Church’s Archbishop Christodoulos, and Mormon president Gordon Hinckley, have died, it was announced today.

A polygamist Mormon sect leader who was on the FBI’s Most Wanted List has been arrested and faces sexual misconduct charges for allegedly arranging marriages between underage girls and older men, authorities in Las Vegas said today.