Cañon City resident Andre Shepherd has lived a delicate truce with the Twelve Tribes ever since his ex-wife took their 3-year-old daughter and moved into the group’s Manitou Springs compound five ...

As investigators continued to probe the cause of devastating fires last week which levelled more than 1,000 structures northwest of Denver and burned 6,200 acres, they were zeroing in on a specific ...

FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — A Plymouth man was sentenced on Wednesday after he was found guilty of raping and sexually abusing two girls in Massachusetts, according to the Bristol County District ...

Frank W. spent five years working for the Twelve Tribes religious sect and never took home a paycheck. The 65-year-old Tennessean worked many 12-hour days in various jobs across the country for the ...

Standing in a circle, a group of Manitou Springs residents holds hands and begins to gyrate in a lively counterclockwise dance dedicated to Jesus. As musicians play acoustic guitars and flute, the 30 ...

The Twelve Tribes movement began with Elbert Eugene Spriggs and his wife Marsha who, in 1972, began a ministry for youth called the Light Brigade in Chattanooga, Tenn., eventually forming the Vine ...

The 2,000-3,000 members of the Twelve Tribes, one of the few groups surviving from the Jesus movement of the 1960s and 1970s, seek to obey God’s will as revealed in the old and new testaments. They ...

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — New records show the property that the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating as the potential origin of the Marshall Fire has a history of controlled ...

PULASKI, Tennessee – Most families have a family reunion just once a year – maybe around Thanksgiving or Christmas. For members of the Twelve Tribes, a Christian community with a branch in Pulaski, ...

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