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Study: Top cities to raise kids

When families move for work or lifestyle changes, they try to pick the place with the best opportunities for their children as well as for overall living standards. Parents carefully consider many factors, including the quality of schools in the area, the cost of living, the available amenities, and safety, to name a few—and this is no easy task. In Businessweek.com’s 6th annual ranking of best places to raise kids, we teamed up with Bloomberg Rankings to evaluate 4,169 places with a crime index less than 10 percent above the national average, populations between 1,000 and 50,000 people, and median family income within 20 percent of the state median, using data from real estate data company Onboard Informatics.

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What "Mistakes" in the Book of Mormon Can Teach Us About This Sacred Record

By its own admission, the Book of Mormon is not a perfect text, something the book’s authors and compilers themselves frequently insisted. So what can we learn from these small mistakes that will draw us closer to our Heavenly Father?

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Mickey Mouse, Stevie Wonder, and 23 other famous visitors to the Polynesian Cultural Center

The Polynesian Cultural Center has attracted the attention of both Latter-day Saints and celebrities over the years. Here are just a few of its most famous visitors.

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Southern Baptist Church Defends Glenn Beck as Their Sunday Service Speaker

Pastor Ed Young of Fellowship Church is drawing criticism for inviting Mormon speaker and author Glenn Beck to speak during his Sunday service as part of Young's Freedom Experience event.

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Watch Donny Osmond's Son Open His Mission Call in Emotional Video

By LDS Living

Joshua Davis Osmond recently opened his mission call, making him the fifth and final of Donny and Debbie's sons called on a mission.

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How One LDS Family Sent 7 Kids on 7 Missions and on to Get 7 College Degrees with No Debt

One family, one college, all returned missionaries and a debt-free graduation: there was something to celebrate when the Shauna and Merrill Gee family watched their youngest two children walk across the Brigham Young University stage last week, the last in a 17-year span of having a child in college.

LDS Church leads with calls for unity after election

Utah Republicans woke up with a political hangover on Wednesday. Mia Love missed her chance by a fraction. Mitt conceded defeat. Facebook and Twitter -- those gauges of the public fervor -- were not happy, at least in Utah, as the results came in. And that unhappiness continued with some anger on Wednesday morning. And calls for a return to grace, beginning with a statement from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

SPONSORED: LDS Moms Design Modest Dresses

By Junie Blake

Three LDS women were tired of wearing layers of clothing to stay modest in warm Arizona, so they created their own line of women’s apparel that is modest, trendy, and not layered. “It can be 100-plus degrees in Arizona. And added layers of clothing make it worse!” said Co-Owner Emma McBride of Thatcher, Arizona. “So we decided to design dresses that don’t need a tank, shrug, or cardigan for a more modest feel, without sacrificing trendy style and fashion.”

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4 Things Sportswriters Get Wrong About What LDS Athletes Actually Do on Their Missions

I know Mormons are a little different. I don't expect every person everywhere to understand a religion and its culture so well to be experts in everything they say or write.

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4 Women Who Witnessed the Translation of the Book of Mormon

Within the first few pages of the Book of Mormon, readers come across the names of 11 witnesses, each who has signed his name as someone who has either seen or felt the ancient plates that Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Mormon.