"About 15 minutes ago, I got a phone call from Utah animal control, calling to tell me that an officer had shot and killed my dog," Sean Kendall says at the beginning of the video above. "He was inside the backyard in a fenced off area."

In the past month, two major American cities—Salt Lake City and Phoenix—have both announced that they have ended "chronic homelessness" among military veterans in their town. How?

A Utah man, Spencer Stout, proposed to his boyfriend Dustin in the most romantic store of them all: Home Depot. And while the whole flash mob proposal thing is pretty ugh at this point, this one is a little less ugh than the rest.

Maybe it was the Mormon church largely funding California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8. Maybe they just really liked the Tony Award-winning Book of Mormon. Either way, a group of 150 Mormons quit the church in a mass resignation ceremony to express their displeasure with the religion.

For the second year The Advocate, a gay website with an impossible to find print component, has published its list of the gayest cities in America. For the second year it is so incredibly wrong that I can barely contain my gay rage.

Uh, a good start? That's the number of participants who showed up to the Utah Undie Run on Saturday night, an event held to protest that state's world-famous Mormon puritanism.

David Alan Anderson is not an exemplary traveler. After the 60-year-old Salt Lake City native recently boarded a Las Vegas-bound Delta flight, he immediately started elbowing the passenger seated directly next to him in an attempt to "claim" the armrest, according to a federal complaint. That led to Anderson putting…

While the rest of NBC stations broadcast the new show The Playboy Club this fall, Salt Lake City-based KSL will be showing test patterns or scripture or something. They refuse to air the show, saying its subject matter is objectionable.

When no treatments would work to cure his 2-year-old son Cash's brain tumor, Mike Hyde did something drastic: he gave the kid a dose of cannabis oil. Initially it was to get him to start eating again. That worked and now Cash is cancer-free.

A leaking pipe owned by Chevron has spilled 20,000 gallons of oil into Red Butte Creek outside of Salt Lake City, coating poor ducks and geese. Hell, let's make BP clean that one up too, just to be bastards. [DeseretNews]