A resolution introduced in the Utah State Legislature seeks to declare pornography a “public health hazard” and urges education and policy change to battle it.
The U.S. Department of Justice claims that a polygamous controls the Arizona-Utah border towns of Colorado City and Hildale. The particular religious sect denied housing and police services to non-church members.
The Utah Supreme Court on Thursday lifted an order that had blocked spouses in same-sex marriages from adopting their partners' children, state officials said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy granted a request from Idaho officials on Wednesday and temporarily blocked the planned start of gay marriages in that state after a regional federal appeals court's ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban.
Lawyers for the state of Utah believe they have the perfect case for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide once and for all the hotly-contested legal rights issue of whether states can ban gay marriage.
Utah's attorney general said Wednesday he was considering an appeal of a U.S. federal judge's ruling that declared part of Utah's bigamy law unconstitutional and which sided with the star of reality television show "Sister Wives" and his four wives.
A 15-year-old Utah boy was arrested in connection with killing his two younger adopted brothers, who were aged 4 and 10. He apparently stabbed to death in their home while their mother was out at a musical recital, authorities said on Thursday. The unidentified teenager is being held at the Farmington Bay Youth Detention Center.
