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Army helps vets with `invisible wounds' find jobs

Richard Martin keeps a rearview mirror on his desk to prevent co-workers from startling him in his cubicle. The walls are papered with sticky notes to help him remember things, and he wears noise-canceling headphones to keep his easily distracted ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, eTaiwan News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Richard Martin,  Northrop Grumman Corp,  National Guard

Army helps vets with 'invisible wounds'

largely borne out of ignorance," said David Autry, a spokesman for Disabled American Veterans. "There's a fear that somebody will go off the deep end." Richard Martin, a wounded Iraq War veteran, works in his office at Northrop Grumman in Clearfield, ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Salt Lake Tribune,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Northrop Grumman Corp,  Richard Martin,  National Guard

Texas sect man guilty of sexual assault of minor

After being duped by false leads and chastised by a court for its handling of polygamist sect children, the state of Texas has won a criminal conviction in its first trial of a polygamist sect member charged with sexually assaulted an underage girl. ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Taiwan News,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Raymond M. Jessop,  Warren Jeffs

Texas polygamist sect member guilty of sex assault

ELDORADO, Texas—The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Raymond M. Jessop,  Warren Jeffs

US polygamist sect member guilty of sex assault

The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas last year was convicted Thursday of sexual assault of a child. Jurors took a little more than two hours to convict Raymond ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, eTaiwan News,  5 Nov 2009

Prosecution rests case against polygamist sect man

ELDORADO, Texas Prosecutors have rested their case against a 38-year-old man from a polygamist group on trial for sexual assault of a child in West Texas. Texas Ranger Nick Hanna testified Thursday that Raymond Jessop and the girl were living at the ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, San Diego Union-Tribune,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Texas Rangers,  Warren Jeffs,  Mark Stevens

Judge says Texas polygamist sect trial nearing end

After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case against one of its members as early as Thursday. Texas District Judge Barbara ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Taiwan News,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Texas Rangers,  Warren Jeffs,  Mark Stevens

Witness: FLDS men lead all aspects of sect life

ELDORADO, Texas - Women in a polygamist sect were taught that their fathers or husbands and the sect's prophet had the right to direct every aspect of their lives, a former member testified Wednesday in the child sexual abuse trial of a current sect ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Warren Jeffs

Judge orders redaction of polygamist documents

Raymond Jessop, the first man to face criminal charges following the raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, is seen outside the courtroom during a recess in the second day of jury selection of his trial Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Eldorado, Texas. ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009

Prosecutor: Polygamist sect man assaulted teen

A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided. An attorney for defendant ...

From MICHELLE ROBERTS, Taiwan News,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mark Stevens,  Warren Jeffs

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