Author: Brady Mccombs
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Mormons address mystery surrounding undergarments
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SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church is addressing the mystery that has long surrounded undergarments worn by its faithful with a new video explaining the practice in-depth while admonishing ridicule from outsiders about what it considers a symbol of Latter-day Saints’ devotion to God. The four-minute video on The Church of Jesus Christ of…
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Salt Lake City launches campaign to lure skiers
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Utah officials launched a $1.8 million campaign to market Salt Lake City as “Ski City USA” in an effort to lure skiers away from top destination spots such as Colorado and earn a bigger chunk of the lucrative winter sports market. A package of online and print advertisements highlights the benefits of Salt Lake City…
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Public gets first look at priceless Mormon artifacts
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SALT LAKE CITY – In one glass case sits a weathered page from the original Book of Mormon manuscript that Latter-day Saints believe was translated from ancient Egyptian and dictated to scribes by founder Joseph Smith 185 years ago with help from God. In other nearby cases are Smith’s first journal and the first printed…
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32,000 Mormon missionaries to get iPad minis
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The Mormon church is moving forward with its plan to arm missionaries with iPad minis and broaden their proselytizing to social media. A test program that began last fall with 6,500 missionaries serving in the U.S. and Japan went well, prompting the initiative’s expansion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said. Church leaders…
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Mormon church excommunicates women’s group founder
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church excommunicated the founder of a prominent women’s group Monday, a rare move that brings down the harshest punishment available on an adherent who created an organization and staged demonstrations in a push for women to join the faith’s priesthood. The ousting of Kate Kelly marks one of…
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Utah ordered to recognize over 1,000 gay marriages
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — When Matthew Barraza and Tony Milner’s 5-year-old son starts kindergarten next fall, both of his fathers could finally be recognized as his legal parents. A federal judge on Monday ordered Utah officials to recognize more than 1,000 same-sex marriages that took place in the state before the U.S. Supreme Court…
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Woman accused in of killing six of her babies and storing their bodies in her garage appears in court
PROVO, Utah — Prosecutors have been granted more time to determine what charges to file against a Utah woman accused of killing six of her babies and storing their bodies in her garage. Megan Huntsman, 39, was in court Monday wearing a baggy prison jumpsuit, her hands and ankles shackled. She mostly stared at the…
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Maine animal shelter buried under carrot avalanche
SKOWHEGAN, Maine — A Maine animal shelter has so many carrots it doesn’t know what to do. The Somerset Humane Society in Skowhegan received the carrots last week from a trucking company that wanted to get rid of them after a supermarket manager turned them away because some were bruised. The carrots were still edible…
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Police: Utah mom admitted to killing her 6 babies
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah — Megan Huntsman was clear about what she did with six of her newborn babies. Huntsman, 39, told police she either strangled or suffocated them immediately after they were born. She wrapped their bodies in a towel or a shirt, put them in plastic bags and then packed them inside boxes in…
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Mormon-centric Utah epicenter for food storage
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Towering grain silos overlook the main highway in Salt Lake City at the Mormon church’s Welfare Square. At grocery stores, there’s a whole section with large plastic tubs with labels that read, “Deluxe survivor 700.” Radio ads hawk long-term supplies of food with 25-year shelf lives. And houses are equipped with special shelving for cans…