ELDORADO, Texas _ The number of women and children removed from a polygamous compound in West Texas climbed to 219 Sunday as authorities spent the day busing them about 45 miles to San Angelo.

By Bill Hanna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Apr. 5--A Kerrville lawmaker is trying to make it more difficult for a polygamist group that is building a compound south of San Angelo to practice some of its more controversial beliefs.

By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News The Mohave County Sheriff's Office in Arizona is planning to hire two new police officers to patrol the vast area along the Utah- Arizona border, including the polygamous enclave of Colorado City, Ariz.

By Copyright 2007 Deseret Morning News By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News ST. GEORGE -- Persistent questions about how much of a grasp Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs retains on his followers could help investigators digging into alleged crimes within his polygamous sect.

This old railroad town has seen its fortunes rise and fall more than once in the boom-bust cycles of the oil industry and cotton farming. But nobody here ever thought prosperity would ride on the global warming debate.