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From The Associated Press

Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn’t until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as “Miss Lillian” did on those visits.

“Mama had developed a reputation for expressing unorthodox opinions and not being constrained by any outside advice,” Carter writes in “A Remarkable Mother,” which chronicles Lillian’s life from her birth in 1898 to her death from cancer in 1983.

Attorneys for polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs want an Arizona judge to dismiss incest charges in cases pending in Arizona. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leader is charged as an accomplice in a Mohave County court. The charges stem from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. Jeffs is to appear in court May 16.