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SALT LAKE CITY — For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a woman led a prayer Saturday at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

SALT LAKE CITY — Jorgen Sumsion spent the fall semester studying biostatistics at Brigham Young University, but he's not enrolled this semester.

PROVO, Utah — Mikaela Merrill was in the middle of her fall semester at Brigham Young University when she abruptly altered her college plans and signed up for a Mormon mission.

Allegiant Airlines announced today that it will begin a new service to Provo, Utah beginning Feb. 15, 2013.

All of her young life, Eliza Andreasin has wanted to become a missionary in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

All of her young life, Eliza Andreasin has wanted to become a missionary in the church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints.

NACO - Investigators were scouring the Naco, Arizona area Wednesday following the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie.

Only a few of the thousands of kids in junior high and high school marching bands in Arizona are going to become professional musicians and odds are long on any becoming the next Louie Armstrong or Benny Goodman. But Cliff Bentley is living proof that the marching time and music study can pay off with something really rewarding.

An independent documentary/drama, “People v The State of Illusion,” written and produced by Austin Vickers, a Tempe resident, will expand to two additional Arizona Harkins Theatres on Friday.

It's said that one person's trash is another's treasure, but for a Tempe startup called EcoScraps, that trash is its very business model.

If you don't know this group of alternative pop-rockers by their name, Neon Trees, you've likely heard their hit song, "Animal," on the radio. The Provo, Utah-based band, who got their break in 2008 when The Killers drummer saw one of their gigs in Vegas, plays this week in the East Valley. But don't expect them to trash a hotel room after; according to Rolling Stone magazine, the all-Mormon group refrains from typical rock-band partying and drinking.

SALT LAKE CITY - Lost in the vast desert of Skull Valley, 65 miles west of Salt Lake City, is a small cemetery where headstones from the turn of the 20th century bear Hawaiian names.

In the early 2000s, quarterback Max Hall helped lead Mountain View to one state championship and another title-game appearance.

In the early 2000s, quarterback Max Hall helped lead Mountain View to one state championship and another title-game appearance.

PROVO, Utah — Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, has died after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42.

SALT LAKE CITY — Some parents are calling on a school district to stop spreading "false educational ideas." First and foremost, the parents say, the district needs to clamp down on its use of the D-word: "democracy."

PROVO, Utah  — Jimmer Fredette scored 10 points and set the BYU record for consecutive free throws made as the Cougars beat Arizona State 81-68 Tuesday night.

TRENTON, N.J. — Big businesses are spending serious time and money trying to limit the swine flu pandemic's impact on operations, from bankrolling video on good hygiene to training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs.

SALT LAKE CITY — Want some solar energy with your geothermal?

PROVO, Utah — With a hobbled running back and an inexperienced offensive line, BYU has been relying on quarterback Max Hall, a Mesa Mountain View alum, even more than usual.

The term "Mexican colonies" conjures family lore for many Valley Mormons.