Jennifer Dobner

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah judge will ask Warren Jeffs to sign a waiver that would extradite the polygamous church leader to Texas to face criminal charges.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps from being submitted for posthumous baptism by proxy.

SALT LAKE CITY -- A tip from a resident helped police on Monday capture a 23-year-old man who authorities say fatally shot a sheriff's deputy and went on the run for four days in the rugged wilderness along the Utah-Arizona border.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The 14 crosses erected along Utah roads to commemorate fallen state Highway Patrol troopers convey a state preference for Christianity and are a violation of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The bodies of three Japanese tourists killed in a rollover crash on a Southern Utah highway will soon be flown back to Japan, diplomatic officials said Friday.

SALT LAKE CITY -- People of faith should engage in civil dialogue about gay marriage, but government should rely on the U.S. Constitution -- not religion -- in deciding who can marry, the head of the national Interfaith Alliance said Friday.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Defense lawyers for the man charged with kidnapping Elizabeth Smart argued Thursday that the case should be moved out of Utah so he can get a fair trial.