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Couple held for selling brides get 5-day remand (Yahoo! India News) - Arrested on charges of kidnapping girls and selling them as 'brides' in Kathiwad, a couple from Vansal village were remanded to five days in police custody by an Anand court on Monday, said police. According to Umreth police officials, Kohiya and Shanta Solanki were arrested after police received a tip-off from locals. ''We raided their residence and found four girls, one of whom was dumb. One

Here come the brides - a bit later than planned (The Daily Star Lebannon) - Here comes the bride? It's more like here waits the bride. Summers in Lebanon are typically high season for weddings - and in normal times, the more elaborate they are the better. These, however, are notably abnormal times. After months of planning, agonizing and assessing the cut of the dress, the color of the flowers and the shape of the cake.

Leader of polygamist Mormon sect is arrested (International Herald Tribune) - Warren Jeffs, one of the FBI's 10-most-wanted and a symbol of the U.S. government's hardened line against plural marriage in the West, was arrested after a routine traffic stop near Las Vegas.

Fugitive polygamist arrested in Nevada (AP via Yahoo! News) - After more than a year on the run and three months on the FBI's Most Wanted List, the charismatic leader of a polygamous sect was captured during a routine traffic stop and now faces charges he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men.

Leader of Polygamist Mormon Sect Is Arrested in Nevada (New York Times) - Warren Jeffs is wanted in Utah and Arizona on charges of arranging marriages between underage girls and older men.

Polygamist leader seen as charismatic, zealous (USA Today) - Warren Steed Jeffs is a tall, lanky, rather bookish-looking man who has cast a broad shadow across 10,000 members of his polygamy-practicing church.

Polygamist sect leader held (Reuters via Yahoo! News) - Fugitive polygamist sect leader Warren Steed Jeffs, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted men, was arrested after a routine traffic stop near Las Vegas, traveling with $50,000 in cash, 15 cell phones and three wigs, authorities said on Tuesday.

Fugitive polygamist sect leader caught near Las Vegas (CNN.com) - Nevada state troopers found one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, along with wigs, cell phones, laptop computers and about $50,000 in cash, on a highway north of Las Vegas, authorities said Monday.

Man Near Top of Most-Wanted List Is Captured (New York Times) - Warren Steed Jeffs, a self-proclaimed prophet from Colorado City, Ariz., is wanted on charges of arranging child marriages and having sex with a minor.

Fugitive Polygamist Nabbed (CBS News) - Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamist Mormon sect and one of the country's most-wanted fugitives, is behind bars after being pulled over outside Las Vegas. He had phones, computers, wigs and more than $50,000 in cash with him.