{"id":774003,"date":"2026-07-20T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:37:07","slug":"small-town-fight-may-haunt-andy-biggs-gop-governor-candidate-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774003\/","title":{"rendered":"Small-town fight may haunt Andy Biggs, GOP governor candidate in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HN2V7OALFFDHHA3MMX3Y5KNP2A\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Momentum was growing in 2013 to crack down on a polygamist religious group accused of sexually abusing girls in rural Arizona.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"BXOM5NR4ABEXPFGTMDW6UTDNDQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Justice Department was suing. The group\u2019s leader was in prison after a stint on the FBI\u2019s most-wanted list. Arizona\u2019s attorney general wanted to shut down the local police force, the Colorado City Marshal\u2019s Office, which he accused of doing the bidding of sect leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Momentum was growing in 2013 to crack down on a polygamist religious group accused of sexually abusing girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-774003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}