AUSTIN, Texas, July 14 (UPI) -- The Texas attorney general's office says evidence seized in a raid on a polygamist ranch can be used in court.

LOGAN, Utah, July 12 (UPI) -- A 12-hour rescue operation in Logan, Utah, for a mother and her two children presumed buried by a mudslide has been called off, police say.

SALT LAKE CITY, July 11 (UPI) -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints security guards detained a gay couple after they kissed near a Utah LDS temple, one of the men says.

SALT LAKE CITY, April 6 (UPI) -- Bishop John Wester of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City is to undergo surgery for prostate cancer, one of his colleagues says.

ST. GEORGE, Utah, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old student was killed in St. George, Utah, after a prop pistol being used in a stage production discharged, police say.

ST. GEORGE , Utah, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Members of the largest polygamous sect have asked a federal judge in Utah to protect a farm in the church's trust from sale.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The man suspected of kidnapping Utah resident Elizabeth Smart several years ago should undergo a mental examination at a federal site, a magistrate has ruled.

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A University of Utah psychologist says advocates of treating homosexuality selectively pick out bits of her research that appear to support their position.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A Holocaust survivor living in New York has accused the Mormon church of bad faith in its efforts to avoid proxy baptisms of Jews killed by the Nazis.