Towns once run by Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect emerge from court supervision transformed
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A modern apartment building is shown Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Colorado City, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Isaac Wyler, a former member of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), poses with his horse Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Gabby Olsen and Dion Obermeyer, owners of Rock Odysseys, speak during an interview Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)A sign marks the Utah state line in Hildale, Utah, on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Briell Decker speaks during an interview Thursday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)FILE - A woman and a young girl hold hands for a photograph, in Colorado City, Ariz., on Oct. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)FILE - Two polygamous towns on the Utah-Arizona border hold a public memorial for women and children swept away in a deadly flash flood. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)Students cheer during a basketball game at Water Canyon High School Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Aaron Jessop and his 4-year-old niece, Azure Jessop attend a Christmas tree lighting Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. In this former haven for a polygamous religious sect on the Utah-Arizona line to do something that is common across the United States but had been forbidden here for decades: Lighting a public Christmas tree, (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Willie Jessop, the owner of Zions Most Wanted Hotel, and a former church spokesperson and security official for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, speaks during an interview Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)Shem Fischer, owner of the Zion Cliff Lodge, holds a photograph of the Fischer family reunion taken in 1995, during an interview Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)FILE - Warren Jeffs appears in a courtroom surrounded by guards in Las Vegas, on Aug. 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch, File)Hildale Mayor Donia Jessop points to an aerial photograph of Hildale during an interview Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Hildale, Ut. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)FILE - Isaac Wyler, a former member of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), stands in front of an evicted polygamous property, in Hildale, Utah, on Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
A modern apartment building is shown Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Colorado City, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)