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claims they reject.
• Cobb moved to Leith two years ago, occupying a home with no sewer or water service, and encouraged others with white power aspirations to join him and turn the tiny community into an Aryan enclave. Dutton, his girlfriend, Deborah Henderson, and her three children moved in with Cobb.
• But after the two men were arrested, Henderson moved out. City Attorney Tom Kelsch said Leith can't condemn an unoccupied structure under a city ordinance, but it can effectively prevent anyone from moving back in.
• "The Cobb house is not occupied at present, and therefore, is not subject to condemnation," Kelsch said in a statement to The Associated Press. However: "The house does not meet code and will not be able to be occupied until it is brought up to the code standards."
• Henderson left after court officials rejected her attempts to obtain restraining orders against a city councilman and a website developer she claimed were harassing her.
• Cobb on Thursday remained in jail in lieu of $1 million bond. His court-appointed attorney, Ryan Heintz, did not respond to requests for comment. Cobb and Dutton face preliminary hearings Monday.
• Cobb has been busy filing complaints with North Dakota's Department of Labor and Human Rights, saying he is being harassed and discriminated against because of his religion, Creativity. The state agency has rejected two complaints, dismissed one for lack of jurisdiction and is investigating seven others, state Labor Commissioner Bonnie Storbakken said.
• One of the rejected complaints involved Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who said during a radio interview that Cobb and his supporters "are not the kind of people wanted in North Dakota."
• Cobb alleged discrimination but Storbakken said her department found no cause for that conclusion.
• Stenehjem on Thursday said he expected the outcome.
• "What Mr. Cobb needs to know is the First Amendment doesn't apply just to him, it applies to everyone, including me," Stenehjem said. "I have not only a right but an obligation to speak out on issues of public concern."
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• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota's Department of Labor and Human Rights has rejected two complaints filed by a white supremacist who tried to turn the

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