Salt Lake City » Reed Cowan's reasons for making a film about the Mormon church's activism against gay marriage in California are personal. He is gay and Mormon, and clashed with his family over his sexual orientation and the beliefs of their faith.   Full Story

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Bridgeview, Ill. » The Real Salt Lake players lined up anxiously at midfield with their arms across each other's shoulders needing just one swift kick to lift them into the Major League Soccer championship game.   Full Story

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For decades, energy pioneers knew there were huge deposits of natural gas trapped in shale lodged thousands of feet below the Earth's surface. Problem was, the claylike material, cooked hard over eons by intense geologic pressures, is so tight and in layers so thin that conventional drilling   Full Story

On the face of it, a police protection fee proposed for unincorporated sections of Salt Lake County sounds absurd. It sounds like something a crooked cop, but not a government entity, might try to collect.   Full Story

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Aficionados aside, most people might view a book reading as something packed with all the excitement of a wait in the dentist's office. The basement of Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore two weeks ago was anything but that, thanks to the anticipation of the arrival of fantasy author and Provo resident   Full Story

WASHINGTON » An urn containing the ashes of a decorated Korean War veteran has been stolen from a van the soldier's family rented to attend his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.   Full Story