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Church prepares for 'ascension'
The Associated Press Originally published November 30, 1998
COLORADO CITY - Amazing prophecies are nothing new in the desert headquarters of America's largest polygamous church, but the story of 2,500 people about to be lifted up into heaven has created an urgency unlike any before. Rulon Jeffs, the aging and reclusive prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, officially denies making predictions of mass ascension for the righteous - yet his followers' preparations are evident. Jeffs, who for more than a decade has commuted by Learjet from Salt Lake County and his 4-acre estate in Little Cottonwood Canyon to church services and meetings in this desert sanctuary - reportedly declared that Salt Lake City is "the wickedest city on Earth" and will be destroyed. The 89-year-old tax accountant and his sons are selling their enclaves in Little Cottonwood Canyon - palatial homes, a schoolhouse, a nursery and a 150-space parking lot, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Sunday. A collection of grain silos at the estate have recently been dismantled and reassembled in Hildale, Utah, where the prophet and his 20 wives have taken up residence.


Polygamy City
Brent Hunsaker KTVX - ABC 4 Early Edition Originally broadcast May 26, 1999
A POLYGAMIST PROPHET IS PREDICTING THE END OF THE WORLD WILL COME IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. NEWS 4 UTAH'S BRENT HUNSAKER VISITED HIS FOLLOWERS IN HILLDALE AND COLORADO CITY -- TWO PLYGAMOUS COMMUNITIES ON THE UTAH-ARIZONA BORDER. A PEOPLE BUSY WITH PREPARATIONS. THESE DAYS... PROPHETS OF DOOM ARE A DIME A DOZEN. BUT THE DIFFERENCE WITH POLYGAMY CITY... IS THAT THE FOLLOWERS OF RULON JEFFS ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. "The opression I was under and the indoctrination was real hard to work out of. RETURNING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS... RENA MCKERT... SAW DRAMATIC CHANGES AT COLORADO CITY. EVERYWHERE... HOMES ARE BEING BUILT -- SOME TO HOUSE BELIEVERS WHO ARE GATHERING FROM AS FAR AWAY AS CANADA. JEFFS EVEN SOLD HIS HOME AND PROPERTY IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY AND MOVED BACK TO COLORADO CITY. OTHER EVIDENCE OF THE PREPARATION: BELIEVERS ARE STOCKING UP ON FOOD. -- AND THERE'S A RUSH TO MARRY. Read more


Polygamy City
Brent Hunsaker KTVX - ABC 4 10:00 PM Edition Originally broadcast May 26, 1999
THE END IS NEAR. AS THE MILLENNIUM APPROACHES... PROPHETS OF DOOM ARE A DIME A DOZEN. AMONG THEM... RULON JEFFS... THE AILING LEADER OF COLORADO CITY... AND HILLDALE IN SOUTHERN UTAH. NEWS 4 UTAH'S BRENT HUNSAKER RECENTLY RETURNED FROM THERE...AND JOINS US NOW. THE FOLLOWERS OF RULON JEFFS BELIEVE THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK WILL STRIKE MIDNIGHT WITHIN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. AND WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEIR POLYGAMY CITY THEN. COLORADO CITY... ROUGHLY 6-THOUSAND PEOPLE LIVING JUST OFF HIGHWAY 59 -- STRADDLING THE UTAH - ARIZONA BORDER. -- A PEOPLE SEPARATED BY A STATELINE... UNITED IN THE BELIEF THAT THEY ARE GOD'S CHOOSEN FEW. Jason Williams, Former Resident of Colorado City, "We were told in meetings that the year 2000... it's been prophised that's when the destruction will come." JASON WILLIAMS WAS RECENTLY RUN OUT OF TOWN BY POLYGAMOUS PROPHET RULON JEFFS. Read more


Rapture & Rupture
Heavenly deliverance, 'ethnic cleansing' and child-snatching in polygamous Colorado City
By Dave Wagner Phoenix New Times Originally published August 31, 2000
On September 15, certain citizens of Arizona expect to be lifted bodily into the air and swept into heaven. If it doesn't happen, there could be hell to pay. To prepare for this "lifting up," leaders of the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints in Colorado City, Arizona, have ordered parents to keep their children out of the public schools and sanctioned the last-minute snatching of child brides. The secretive FLDS church, led by Warren Jeffs, is the largest remaining sect of an estimated 30,000 polygamists in North America. It has about 5,000 members in the immediate community, which includes the town of Hildale on the Utah side of the state line. Warren is the son of Rulon T. Jeffs, 92, the church's ailing prophet who is also the father of 60 children and the husband of 19 wives who keep his photo by their bedsides. Neither Warren Jeffs nor anyone else in the church leadership, including their lawyers in Salt Lake City, will speak publicly about the lifting up, but former members and dissenters in Colorado City are worried, they say, because the younger Jeffs has recently begun to preach the doctrine of "blood atonement." Read more


Polygamy church prepares for end of the world
Martin Kettle in Washington London Guardian Originally published September 16, 2000
There is speculation that a polygamous sect which split from the Mormons more than a century ago may be preparing for the end of the world - perhaps as soon as this month. Concern arose when hundreds of the sect's children failed to turn up at the beginning of the school year. Last year there were 1,400 pupils at the four schools which serve the remote desert towns of Colorado City in Arizona and Hilldale, Utah. This year only about 350 have enrolled, and dozens of teachers who belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have also quit. The two small towns were settled at the end of the 19th century by polygamous Mormons. When the main Mormon church officially disavowed polygamy in 1890, so that Utah could gain statehood, they went their own way. Polygamy is widespread among the 6,000 local members of the sect. The decision to withdraw children from school was taken on the orders of Warren Jeffs, who speaks on behalf of his father, Rulon Jeffs, the church's prophet. Sect members say they are cutting contact with non-believers and preparing for the apocalypse Mr Jeffs says is at hand. This is not the first time that Mr Jeffs has told his followers to prepare for the end of the world. Read more


Colorado City: preparing for the Apocalypse
By Simon Davis in Colorado City, exclusively for Electronic Telegraph Telegraph.co.uk Originally published October 23, 2000
The playground is eerily quiet at Colorado City's main school. The few visitors who make it to the school's front gates are met on neat lawn by a group of middle-aged men demanding to know what they want. Requests for an interview are tersely turned down and visitors are stalked. But then Colorado City is a very strange place, somehow reminiscent of a scene from a classic Hitchcock film. Walk into the town's cafe at breakfast time and the place falls silent. The waitress casts a meaningful look at the sheriff drinking his coffee. He nods at her and the woman announces that the restaurant is now closed. The people of Colorado City, some 90 miles northeast of Las Vegas, are sensitive about the outside world and what it thinks of them. They believe the world is about to end. Their leader, Rulon Jeffs, delivered the news of impending disaster. As leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, the 6,000 people of Colorado City and the neighbouring town of Hildale regard him with reverence. "President" Jeffs, as he is widely known, feels misunderstood by the outside world. That may be linked to earlier misjudgments about the exact timing when everything earthly would come to an end. Seven years ago, Mr Jeffs instructed school children not to bother attending college because the apocalypse would occur before they could graduate. Read more


Could mass suicide be next for cult?
Erratic leader of Mormon sect poses a deadly risk to his Kootenay followers
By Daphne Bramham Vancouver Sun Originally published Friday, June 11, 2004
Mass suicide. It's another reason beyond polygamy, child brides, rape and forced marriages that B.C. Attorney-General Geoff Plant should be paying attention to what is happening in the Kootenay community of Bountiful. Warren Jeffs, the prophet, revelator and leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is becoming increasingly paranoid, erratic and convinced that he is God's "one mighty and strong" who will lead his followers to heaven, according to experts. And they're interpreting it as a signal that the charismatic leader may soon instruct the more than 30,000 Mormon Fundamentalists living in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to take their own lives in order to be "lifted up" to God's kingdom. If the experts are right, it could mean people in Bountiful joining thousands of American FLDS members who will obediently follow his order. Read more


Sect took out loans in preparation for doomsday
The Associated Press The Arizona Republic Originally published December 6, 2004
EPHRAIM, Utah - For more than a decade, a 9,000-member polygamist sect that believed civilization was about to end was borrowing money like there was no tomorrow. Members of the sect - a renegade Mormon splinter group called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - took out one loan after another from the small-town Bank of Ephraim for business ventures that would prove highly speculative, even half-baked. One loan went toward a watermelon farm, but not a single melon was ever planted and the bank had to foreclose on the farm. Another loan was taken out by a business that planned to convert military barracks into motels and housing. The venture, in which the church was a partner, collapsed when the barracks were found to have lead paint, asbestos and other hazards. Still another loan was made to a construction company that so underbid municipal sewer and street contracts it was unable to pay for materials, let alone labor. The bank had to write off that loan, too. Read more


Mormons who banked on doomsday find the debt collector at the door
By David Usborne The Independent (UK) Originally published December 11, 2004
If the 9,000 members of a polygamous Mormon sect in south-west Utah felt comfortable borrowing from their local bank like there was no tomorrow, it was because, in their minds, that was precisely the case. The world, they had been told, was coming to an end. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gladly used high-interest funds to finance suspect business ventures. There was the water melon farm on which not a single water melon was planted, and plans to convert old military barracks into homes fell through when they found lead paint and asbestos inside. Now, though, the tap has been turned off. After years of obliging the sect, the local Bank of Ephraim has been forced to shut down after state regulators found it could no longer handle all the loans it had extended. It was only after the crackdown in June that the bank's president, Keith Church, discovered the truth. Several years ago, the sect, led by a recluse named Warren Jeffs, rumoured to have 70 wives, made members take an oath to drain the bank as fast as possible because doomsday, just around the corner, would see the world and its financial system collapse. Read more


Surprise by polygamists feared
Anniversary is likely time
By Joseph A. Reaves The Arizona Republic Originally published March 6, 2005
One month from today, April 6, will be a joyous milestone for Mormons in the Valley and across the world. That date will mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On April 6, 1830, the Prophet Joseph Smith proclaimed a revelation from God empowered him to restore the true covenants and gospel of Jesus Christ through a new church. But as Mormons prepare to celebrate a sacred moment, authorities in three states are worried that a new prophet - this one a religious renegade denounced by the church and hiding from the law - could try to hijack the anniversary. "It is clearly a seminal date and, frankly, yes we are worried about what might happen," says Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard. Goddard, his counterpart in Utah, Mark Shurtleff, and law enforcement authorities in Texas are piecing together what evidence they can about Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet of a reclusive sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The attorneys general were in St. George Thursday for a town hall meeting to discuss developments with the FLDS. Read more


FLDS-doomsday rumors infest Web
By Nancy Perkins Deseret Morning News Originally published April 5, 2005
ST. GEORGE � Doomsday scenarios and rumors of an impending mass suicide by faithful members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are spreading fast on the World Wide Web. Several Web sites predict a short and grim future for the FLDS, saying that the church's leader, Warren Jeffs, is saying the world will end Wednesday, the 175th anniversary of the founding of the LDS Church. Law enforcers aren't impressed. "We have our own intelligence inside the FLDS community, and we believe there's a high probability that absolutely nothing will happen," said Washington County Sheriff Kirk Smith, whose jurisdiction includes Hildale, a small FLDS community adjacent to its virtual twin, Colorado City, Ariz. The Web sites, however, warn the FLDS could be setting up another Waco, Texas, where on April 19, 1993, after a 51-day standoff, 76 people died in a fire that broke out during an assault by the FBI at a religious compound. Other sites say Jeffs could be another version of Jim Jones, who led 914 followers in Guyana into mass suicide Nov. 18, 1978. Or Jeffs is preparing a mass exodus of his most ardent followers to the new FLDS community in Texas, leaving thousands of members behind because they are not "pure in heart." Read more


No mass exodus reported of FLDS members
Mayor Zitting: It's business as usual in Hildale
By Patrice St. Germain The Spectrum Originally published April 5, 2005
HILDALE - The rumors of a mass exodus of people from Hildale and Colorado City to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' compound in Eldorado, Texas, appear to be just that - rumors. Hildale Mayor David Zitting said Monday that he hadn't noticed that anyone had left. "I drove over here, and there are people around," Zitting said. It was business as usual Monday. The city offices were open, as were local businesses. Some of the residents may have left for Texas, but apparently not in large numbers. But some people have left the twin cities, and they left home without warning, as Colorado City resident Ross Chatwin found out. Chatwin, who shared a house and was disputing the ownership of the home with his brother Steven, visited his father less than a mile away on March 27. Two hours later, when Chatwin and his family returned home, they found that Steven and his family had packed up and left without leaving word as to where they had gone. "We came back and everything was gone - the washer, dryer, stove and refrigerator - everything," Chatwin said. "It was like he never lived here." Although Chatwin has no proof his brother left for Eldorado, he believes that is where his brother went. Read more


"Doomsday" is Here for Members of the FLDS Church
ABC 4 News 4utah.com Originally broadcast April 5, 2005
Wednesday marks the 175th anniversary of the Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But to some members of the polygamous 'FLDS church Wednesday is "doomsday". Warren Jeffs the self proclaimed prophet of the reclusive FLDS church has gathered 2,500 of his most faithful followers and moved them to this 1,700 acre ranch in Eldarado Texas. The move was in preparation for a prophesied apocalypse. Warren Jeffs believes he and his chosen few now living in this Texas compound will be caught up into heaven. Such a claim has the 7,500 followers left behind in Hilldale Utah furious. 3 times in the last decade, 3 different prophets, have told followers they would be lifted to heaven while the rest of the world was left to fight the Armageddon. And each time when it doesn't happen there is an excuse, like the members were not faithful enough. Read more


Polygamy draws attention to small Texas town
The Spectrum TheSpectrum.com Originally published April 5, 2005
Eldorado, Texas � The tiny town of Eldorado, Texas, became the center of attention Tuesday, the day before the expected dedication of a temple for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The FLDS church, led by self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs, teaches polygamy as part of its doctrine and traces its roots to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, the LDS church excommunicates members who practice polygamy. Some members of the FLDS church have left the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., in recent weeks in preparation for the dedication. Rumors also have circulated throughout Southern Utah and, now, parts of Texas that Jeffs has said that Wednesday, April 6, will mark the end of the world. For more details on this story, see the Wednesday print edition of The Spectrum & Daily News.


FLDS activities draw attention
Polygamists' temple, doomsday rumors attract media to Texas
By Rachel Olsen The Spectrum Originally published April 6, 2005
ELDORADO, Texas - A temple dedication. A doomsday prophecy. Good, old-fashioned curiosity. Those are just some of the reasons why this tiny town in rural Texas will be the center of attention today for members of the national and international media. The focus will be on the compound built by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The church, which dominates the twin cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., has moved some of its members to Eldorado. Besides building dwellings, members have constructed the first FLDS temple, which is rumored to be scheduled for dedication today. The date, April 6, is significant because it also is the 175th anniversary of the founding of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith. The FLDS church, which still teaches polygamy as part of its doctrine, also traces its roots to Smith. However, the LDS church denounced polygamy in 1890 and excommunicates members who practice the belief. With the importance of the day and the first FLDS temple nearing completion, some outsiders, fueled by rumors, believe something will happen today in Schleicher County, which has the bulk of its population living in Eldorado. Read more


FLDS Leaders Deny Apocolypse Rumors
ABC 4 News 4utah.com Originally broadcast April 6, 2005
Leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Wednesday dismissed rumors that the sect was anticipating an apocalyptic event or mass exodus to the church's West Texas ranch. Schleicher County (Texas) Sheriff David Doran said the site of the FLDS' "Yearn for Zion Ranch" was quiet Wednesday, other than dozens of reporters who showed up to investigate rumors that hundreds of members of the church were relocating to Texas and that the world could end. "They denied any end-of-time prophecy or mass movement of people," Doran said. "They said they're going to be praying, but there's not a church gathering or dedication there today because of the ongoing construction." An 80-foot high white temple being built on the sprawling FLDS property has been under construction for months, but remains incomplete. Doran said the exterior appears mostly finished, but the interior still needs work. Doran said he did not meet or see the reclusive FLDS leader Warren Jeffs on Wednesday, although Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Jeffs was believed to be at the ranch near Eldorado. Read more


The World Didn't Come to an End
ABC 4 News 4utah.com Originally broadcast April 6, 2005
As you know the world didn't come to end today. Now for the third time, Warren Jeffs is wrong about his doomsday predictions. 2,500 of his most faithful followers gathered at a mysterious sprawling complex in Eldorado, Texas. Wednesday, Jeffs prophesied he and his followers would be caught up and sent to heaven, while the rest of world would come to an end. But you can see they are still there, and continue to work on their new temple. We'll have more about the doomsday prediction out of Texas coming up tonight on ABC 4 News at 10. Some people left behind by Jeffs in the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City say that while there might not be violence Wednesday, they fear it will happen. Many disaffected members of the FLDS church hope that with Jeffs gone they can get their homes back. Jeffs is the only trustee of the UEP, the group that owns most of the homes and businesses in Hildale and Colorado City. There is also fear that Warren Jeffs is stirring up racial hatred amongst his followers. A recent sermon by Jeffs was secretly recorded by a dissident member of his church. On the tape, Jeffs refers to the black race as "immoral, filthy people" Read more


Capitalizing on the "End of the World"
Some people in Eldorado, Texas find the thought of polygamists and the end of the world more than a little funny. Others apparently find it to be a good way to make some money.
By Ben Winslow KSL NewsRadio 1160 Originally broadcast April 6, 2005
ELDORADO, TEXAS-(KSL News) -- For some people, polygamists and the end of the world in Texas are something to laugh at. Jim Runge dressed up like the grim reaper and waved to cars as they passed through Eldorado. Inside his shop is a picture of Warren Jeffs that asks a question. "It said, can you think of anything more scary than Warren Jeffs? You need a diversion. You need a little humor to add to your job so you all won't have to be so serious." Runge even changed the Chamber of Commerce sign to read: "Tomorrow Has Been Cancelled." Not to be outdone, the local newspaper is hawking its own ballcaps and T-shirts declaring Eldorado the "Polygamy Capitol of Texas." See these humorous photos


Quiet Day in Eldorado
John Hollenhorst Reporting KSL TV Channel 5 Originally broadcast April 6, 2005
It's a quiet day so far in the small town of Eldorado, Texas, in spite of widespread reports something big was expected to happen at the new headquarters of the FLDS Church. As you may have noticed, the world did NOT end today. Ordinarily that's not news, but investigators have said a polygamist leader prophesied the world might come to an end, and that drew a crowd in Texas today. And of course it's a story with Utah roots. Salt Lake City is still here and so is Eldorado, Texas. Not much happened there, actually. But concerns about an apparent prophecy did draw a crowd to the polygamist's remote compound. Followers of Utah polygamist leader Warren Jeffs have been building a temple near Eldorado, Texas. They've been working round the clock since January 1, with a reported target date for completion today, April 6th. Investigators have said Jeffs predicted the world would end today and only the faithful would be saved. Read more


End of the world uneventful for FLDS
By Chrissie Newman BYU Daily Universe Originally published April 6, 2005
For a 1,600-acre ranch in the small Texas town of Eldorado, the world isn�t over � but it should have been according to the congregation gathered there. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, led by their prophet Warren Jeffs, met for a conference at their new temple site amid rumors that they were preparing for the end of the world. Jeffs previously forecast the end of the world for April 6, where the faithful gathered members would be lifted up to heaven, but now it seems a day of prayer and possibly a temple dedication are all that are in store. Headquartered in the twin cities of Colorado City, Ariz. and Hildale, Utah, the move to Eldorado left the majority of members behind. In anticipation of April 6, both Utah and Arizona authorities watched the polygamist community in fear of a mass exodus. With today�s anti-climactic dawning, however, the fear of a mass reaction is all but gone, said Andrea Esquer, spokeswoman for the Arizona Attorney General�s office. "Well, the world hasn�t ended," she said. "We understand some people have left Colorado City to go to Texas for the dedication of the temple, but we haven�t seen anything that would suggest that there�s been anything like a mass exodus." Working together with Utah�s Attorney General, concerns that a mass exodus would leave people stranded behind kept both states on their toes, Esquer said, as those people might require special services. Read more


Colorado City avoids doomsday scenario feared by authorities
Staff and wire reports The Arizona Republic Originally published April 7, 2005
Doomsday fears about a Colorado City church group proved groundless Wednesday as a key religious date passed without incident. Last month, state authorities expressed concerns about how the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints might mark the 175th anniversary of the founding of mainstream Mormonism, which is not affiliated with the sect. There were rumors of apocalyptic cult activity coinciding with the April 6 date, but church members told Schleicher County (Texas) Sheriff David Doran that they didn't plan "any end-of-time prophecy or mass movement of people." Andrea Esquer, a spokeswoman for Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, said there was no news late Wednesday from communities along the Utah line or from a Texas compound where church leader Warren Jeffs is building a new base. "End of the world? We're all still here," Esquer said.


'Doomsday' passes Town sees little impact from influx of polygamous sect
Day passes without incident at FLDS ranch
By Rachel Olsen The Spectrum Originally published April 7, 2005
ELDORADO, Texas - The only thing stirring up any sort of commotion outside the little Texas town of Eldorado on Wednesday came from huge gusts of wind whipping through Schleicher County. In this community, where the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has built a compound of homes and a temple, members of the national and international media responded to rumors of an end-of-the-world prophecy, a mass suicide and an FLDS temple dedication. Reporters and photographers swarmed along the county road just outside the gate guarding an easement. From there, a guard tower marks the beginning of the secluded FLDS property. The only visible activity came when a man riding a four-wheel-drive vehicle arrived at the gate to allow law enforcement officers access to the compound. Schleicher Counter Sheriff David Doran and two Texas Rangers went into the religious sect's gated community and emerged almost 30 minutes later, reporting that no kind of Waco-style event was happening inside the compound, referencing the demise of the Branch Davidians who died in 1993 in Waco, Texas. Doran, who said he had been escorted by four church elders, said everything was quiet and calm. Members, who recognized Wednesday as a holy day, allowed the officers to get close to the temple. Read more


End of the world prophecy fails to come true
By Leigh Dethman Deseret Morning News Originally published Thursday, April 7, 2005
Warren Jeffs' timing is a bit off. The self-proclaimed prophet's prediction that the world would end Wednesday didn't pan out. Of course, it could still happen � just not on April 6, 2005. "You might be used to these prophecies in Utah, but this is fairly new to Texas," Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran said Wednesday. Jeffs' latest doomsday prophecy marked Wednesday as the end of the world. The foretold day of destruction landed on the 175th anniversary of the founding of the LDS Church, said Sam Brower, a private investigator who has investigated the religious sect for two years. Past prophecies by the leader of the FLDS church claimed the end of the world would happen Jan. 1. These doomsday scenarios and rumors of an impending mass suicide by faithful members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints have kept residents of tiny Eldorado, Texas, on edge since the church first purchased land in the area. Residents poked fun at the rumors Wednesday � one man dressed up as the Grim Reaper and patrolled the streets of Eldorado. And on Monday, pranksters put up signs in front of the county building that said, "Tomorrow Has Been Canceled," and, "Just Kidding, Tomorrow Has Not Been Canceled." "Another doomsday scenario came and went, kinda like the last five or six he's done," Brower said. Read more

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