Here is a brief timeline of Kingston family events that made the news:
August 2003: Jeremy Ortell Kingston is charged with third-degree felony incest for allegedly marrying LuAnn Kingston in 1995. She says she was pressured into the polygamous union and that he is both her nephew and cousin.
March 2003: The Legislature toughens the law regarding married adults who marry, or marry off, children under 18 years old by making this action a second-degree felony.
December 2002: Michelle Afton Michaels, a Kingston clan member and baby sitter, gets 36 months probation instead of the 1-to-15 year prison term she could have gotten after being charged with second-degree felony child abuse homicide in connection with the death of 17-month-old Rhoda Wright. The toddler died in January 2001 while in Michaels' care.
November 2001: A runaway 15-year-old son of John Daniel Kingston is placed in foster care temporarily because the boy told officials he feared the discipline he had witnessed. A plan is discussed to return the boy to his parents if certain conditions are met.
November 2001: A 13-year-old Kingston daughter of John Daniel Kingston, who claimed she was being prepared for marriage, was placed with relatives by a 3rd District Juvenile judge.
January 1999: Six safety violations are filed against Ralph L. Anderson, resident agent for Four Corners Precision Mfg., which does business as A-1 Disposal. The violation charges were lodged after one of the firm's trucks was involved in an accident that killed four people and left the truck driver in a coma. Anderson is the son of polygamist leader John Ortell Kingston.
July 1999: A 3rd District judge sentences David Ortell Kingston to two zero-to-five year prison terms for one count of incest and another of unlawful sexual conduct, both third-degree felonies. A jury found that he had sex with his 16-year-old niece in an arranged polygamous marriage.
June 1999: John Daniel Kingston is sentenced to 28 weeks in jail after pleading no contest to child abuse, a third-degree felony, for allegedly belt-whipping his then-16-year-old daughter. The girl had told officials she ran away from a polygamous marriage to her uncle David Ortell Kingston.
June 1999: State child welfare officials removed seven children, reportedly members of the Kingston clan, who allegedly were found living in unsupervised squalid conditions in a Sandy home. Child welfare officials discussed returning the children if certain conditions were met.
December 1998: North Salt Lake breaks ties with A-1 Disposal, which is run by the Kingston clan, because it had been cited for 245 state and federal safety violations since 1993.
A small LDS Church chapel once used by the Northwest Band of the Shoshoni that is now located on land owned by the Kingston clan is added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Washakie chapel in Box Elder County opened in 1939.