Email Author John Dougherty

Awards

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published July 27, 2006

  “Scammer From the Slammer”

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published July 20, 2006

  “No Power for the Powerless”

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published April 27, 2006

  “Cash Cabal”

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Polygamy in Arizona"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Polygamy in Arizona"

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2003 Stories by John Dougherty

• Double Exposure

  published December 25, 2003

  Fundamentalist Mormon prophet Warren Jeffs came close to getting arrested over the last year because the Utah Attorney General's Office believed... More >>

• Operation Mickey Mouse

  published November 20, 2003

  U.S. 101 just north of downtown Los Angeles clears finally. But the respite from 70 minutes of grinding traffic from Los Angeles International... More >>

• Jerry's World

  published October 16, 2003

  Above the bold, silver letters of "Office of the Mayor" hangs a sign that inadvertently reveals how the nation's fifth-largest city operates.... More >>

• River Gamble

  published September 18, 2003

  Congressman Rick Renzi is sponsoring a provision in a defense-spending bill that could provide hundreds of millions of dollars to his father's... More >>

• Victims' Refuge

  published August 28, 2003

  Arizona and Utah authorities plan to join together for the first time in an effort aimed at curbing the widespread sexual abuse of minors within a... More >>

• Utah Targets Polyg Prophet

  published August 21, 2003

  "We are under attack," declared fundamentalist Mormon Prophet Warren Jeffs from his pulpit in Colorado City during an August 10 sermon. "We... More >>

• Eyes Wide Shut

  published August 7, 2003

  "This is laughable," scoffs Cindi Nannetti, Maricopa County's sex-crimes bureau chief, as she finishes reading a three-page report prepared by the... More >>

• Dirty Tricks

  published July 31, 2003

  An Arizona Department of Public Safety investigation has linked a call to former... More >>

• Profits of Polygamy

  published July 10, 2003

  The state Auditor General's Office has begun a preliminary investigation into the finances of a polygamist-controlled school district in northern... More >>

• House Rules

  published June 5, 2003

  In a blow to the powerful fundamentalist Mormon church that controls most of the land in Colorado City, a Mohave County judge has ruled that... More >>

• Mission: Impossible

  published May 29, 2003

  Arizona State University president Michael Crow rolls across the conference room floor in a chair, grabs a potted plant and begins a lecture on... More >>

• Members Only

  published May 22, 2003

  KINGMAN -- A simple eviction trial in Mohave County has evolved into a battle over the scope of power a religious group can exert to control its... More >>

• Polygamists Probed

  published May 1, 2003

  The spiritual leader of a fundamentalist Mormon sect along the Arizona-Utah border apparently fathered a child with a second underage girl he... More >>

• Polygamy in Arizona: The Wages of Sin

  published April 10, 2003

  Deloy Bateman begins each school day long before dawn. He rousts five of his teenage children from bed at 2 a.m. An hour later, the clan... More >>

• Fornicating for God

  published March 20, 2003

  The leader of a renegade branch of the Mormon Church, now 47, had sexual relations with an underage girl who bore him a daughter in July 2000,... More >>

• Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona

  published March 13, 2003

  Sixteen-year-old Ruth Stubbs wanted to marry the boy down the street. So she revealed her desire to a religious leader, a man held in the... More >>

• Polygamy's Odyssey

  published March 13, 2003

  Joseph Smith, a 24-year-old New York farmer, founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 1830. Relying heavily on Old... More >>

• Indian Ruin

  published February 6, 2003

  Environmental activists say two Valley billboard companies rejected their advertisement because it is critical of Salt River Project's plans to... More >>