It was no secret that a polygamist sect that built a compound in the west Texas desert believed in marrying off underage girls to older men. The sheriff had an informant for four years who was feeding him information about life inside the sect. But authorities say their hands were tied until last week.
Rescue efforts resumed on Wednesday outside the Texas-Mexico border city of Eagle Pass where a tornado killed at least seven people, destroyed two schools and damaged more than 20 homes. Three other people died a few kilometres away in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Five victims were in one mobile home.
Bruce Aiken is an artist with only one subject. He paints the Grand Canyon over and over and has for more than 30 years. The sheer rock walls cut by the blue-green waters of the Colorado River are his lone muse, his love, his obsession. ”She’s the model. She runs my life,” he says.