Hours after the LDS Church announced its support Tuesday night of proposed Salt Lake City ordinances aimed at protecting gay and transgender residents from discrimination in housing and employment, the City Council unanimously approved the measures.   Full Story

Orson Hyde has a name that many people recognize, but most of what he did isn't too well known. Mildly famous for a long, dangerous mission to Palestine, where he dedicated the land for the return of the Jews, Orson was kind of plain and stocky and short.   Full Story

Orem » Leaving Utah for a Massachusetts prep school in the 1940s, 15-year-old Chase Peterson felt like a Brigham Young going East. Peterson, the future University of Utah president, was the only Mormon most of his high school -- and later Harvard -- peers would ever know and thus felt a   Full Story

In what has become Thomas S. Monson's most frequent theme, the LDS president admonished Mormon faithful at the church's 179th Semiannual General Conference on Sunday to give their lives in service to others.   Full Story