It's not easy to ask people to volunteer at the busiest time of the year. ...more

December 13, 2008

A mission-minded community church is showing its thanks by giving both to the local needy and to Haiti hurricane victims. ...more

November 27, 2008

Brigham Young University has yanked the diploma of a man who created a calendar featuring shirtless Mormon missionaries and who was later excommunicated from the church. ...more

October 21, 2008

Times were tough during the 1940s. People struggled, but they also came together in unity to face the world's turmoil. Resurrection Catholic Church wasn't around back then. But, when it formed in 1983, with only about 10 people and little else but faith, the people came together. With 25 years of history now behind it, church members are celebrating by bringing back the 1940s and the joy and cohesiveness those times represent. ...more

September 26, 2008

A Las Vegas man who devised a calendar that features shirtless Mormon missionaries is facing a disciplinary hearing and possible excommunication because of the project. ...more

July 13, 2008

Families from a polygamist sect began trickling back to the Yearning For Zion Ranch on Tuesday - exactly two months after child welfare authorities and law enforcement first arrived at its battered metal gate looking for a caller to a domestic abuse hot line. ...more

June 4, 2008

More than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch two months ago began returning to the arms of their parents Monday, hours after a judge bowed to a state Supreme Court ruling that the seizure was not justified. ...more

June 3, 2008

Parents' hopes of quick reunions with more than 400 children removed from a polygamist sect's ranch were dashed Friday after their attorneys and a judge clashed over proposed restrictions. ...more

May 31, 2008

In a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their parents. ...more

May 30, 2008

In the weeks since the authorities raided a fundamentalist polygamy group here in West Texas in an investigation of possible child marriages and abuse, the sect's mothers have drawn the most attention. ...more

May 21, 2008