SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Opponents of Utah’s medical marijuana ballot initiative are dropping their lawsuit seeking to prevent the question from being put to voters in November. The action by Drug Safe Utah Monday clears the path to placing the initiative on the ballot. Coalition attorney Blake Ostler declined […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah history professor is creating a database to try to record every black Mormon who joined the faith from 1830-1930. The Salt Lake Tribune reports W. Paul Reeve is attempting to fill in the gaps in the early history of The Church of Jesus […]
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah (AP) — Four churches in a suburb of Salt Lake City have been vandalized on four consecutive nights and police are looking for the person or people who are responsible for the damage. Cottonwood Heights police Lt. Dan Bartlett says that since Monday, four churches have had […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The two newest members of a top Mormon governing panel said Thursday that they hope to bring a new perspective as the first Latin-American and the first person of Asian ancestry to a previously all-white top leadership group that helps make church policy. Ulisses Soares […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church for the first time Wednesday posted the list of questions lay leaders are supposed to ask youth during closed door, one-on-one interviews that have come under scrutiny because sexual questions sometimes arise. Only one of the questions seems directed at finding out […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church says it’s “deeply troubled” by the separation of families at the U.S-Mexico border and is urging national leaders to fix the situation and find compassionate solutions. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ spokesman Eric Hawkins said in a statement Monday […]
SPANISH FORK, Utah (AP) — A once promising baseball player at the University of Utah who became addicted to heroin after an injury is now sober, and he’s sharing his story with youth groups to help prevent others from getting sucked in as he did. Derek Larsen, who had a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church’s massive genealogical database will begin accepting the submissions of names of people in same-sex relationships sometime next year in a change that has been in the works for several years. The move doesn’t foreshadow any change to long-standing church opposition to gay […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A woman who says a former Mormon missionary leader raped her in the 1980s is accusing church officials of knowing about the man’s prior sexual misconduct before he was appointed to the powerful position. McKenna Denson’s attorneys allege in a court document filed Tuesday that […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is pulling the remaining 158 missionaries from Nicaragua because of ongoing violence and deteriorating conditions in the Central American country. The move announced Tuesday by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints means the religion will no longer have proselytizing church […]
