Jacob Hancock

Family

Harry Potter throwback: Epic places to hide your horcruxes if you want to live forever

Face it, living forever is on your bucket list. And pulling it off isn’t easy. Its success depends on how well you can hide your horcurxes. Here’s a list of places your horcruxes will never — ever — be found.

By Jacob Hancock

Hudson Gunn, vice president of Otter Creek Holdings, demonstrates how to use LegacyTec on the Legacy Mobile app.

Business

Utah software company to release app it says changes genealogy research, makes QR Codes obsolete

Otter Creek Holdings, a Utah-based technology company that develops genealogy software and websites, announces a new smartphone app that enables users to get instant genealogical information just by snapping a photo of a gravestone.

By Jacob Hancock

Utah

Utah company’s new smartphone app will enhance genealogy access while on the fly

Otter Creek Holdings, a Utah-based technology company that develops genealogy software and websites, sent a team of its techies to a monument trade-show in Cincinnati last week to present new software they’ve built into a soon-to-be released smartphone application, “Legacy Mobile.”

By Jacob Hancock

Volunteers help Saratoga Springs flooding victims remove mud and water from their homes in Saratoga Springs Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012.

Utah

Saratoga Springs makes a call for more volunteers Monday in flood-damaged neighborhood (+video)

After a full day of cleanup effort in the flood-damaged Jacob’s Ranch neighborhood by more than 5,000 volunteers, the city of Saratoga Springs is asking for more help today, starting at 9 a.m. and throughout the day.

By Jacob Hancock

Kaden Dortch forces his way through the other players.

Sports

Cottonwood reigns on Westlake’s thunder

In typical first-game fashion, tempers and yellow flags flickered in and out but backing up 138 penalty yards didn’t keep a young Cottonwood team from rolling over a tough but vulnerable Westlake High squad Friday night below their own lights, beatin

By Jacob Hancock

Utah

Deseret News reaches out to community writers

Already recognized as a go-to source for high school coverage, the Deseret News is stretching its technology and journalism resources to include more prep coverage this year than ever before, largely by welcoming student and community involvement.

By Jacob Hancock

Four Clifford books along with the plush toys are $5 each as part of Kohl's Cares.

Media & Books

Kohl’s and Big Red Clifford raise funds for children’s initiatives

Kohl’s Department Stores has partnered with the 40-plus-year-old children’s book series about little Emily Elizabeth and her pet, Clifford, to raise money for kids’ heath and education initiatives.

By Jacob Hancock

Utah

World Scout Jamboree teaches importance of peace

160 Utah Boy Scouts were in the presence of 40,000 young men and women of various countries during the 12-day World Scout Jamboree held in Rinkaby, Sweden.

By Jacob Hancock

Utah

Deseret News to host student media summit

More than 250 high school students and faculty from around the Beehive state will gather next week in American Fork to learn how to represent their school and community in the media by submitting their own photos, videos and articles.

By Jacob Hancock

Police are looking to question this unidentified man, who is accused of following and harassing a woman for several miles, from Lehi to Cedar Hills, on her way to visit family Thursday evening.
The woman said the man got out of his car and approached and

Utah

Grandma photographs alleged road-rage driver

Grandma photographs alleged road rage driver

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

What’s new: ‘The Biblical Roots of Mormonism’

In their co-authored book “The Biblical Roots of Mormonism,” Eric Shuster and Charles Sale defend the modernity and authenticity of the Mormon church by connecting its core doctrines to ancient scriptural references.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Book review: ‘The Biblical Roots of Mormonism’

their co-authored book \"The Biblical Roots of Mormonism,\" Eric Shuster and Charles Sale defend the modernity and authenticity of the Mormon church by connecting its core doctrines to ancient scriptural references.

By Jacob Hancock

Utah

Shame helps keep porn in the dark

This is the fourth installment in a series on pornography and its impact on families.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Pornography ‘grips you with claws’

This is the third article in a series on pornography and its impact on families: Looking back on a \"self-inflicted\" difficult life — dragging his wife and kids through a divorce, making them deal with his embarrassing addiction and losing his church membership — William’s advice is simple: \"Tell someone, anyone: your dad, a friend, your spouse. Just don’t let it keep growing in the shadows.\"

By Jacob Hancock

Utah

Pornography ‘grips you with claws’

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Youths don’t let burning bus damper pioneer trek

Before stepping out of the bus, 18-year-old Dallon Findlay glanced back and noticed swirls of smoke wafting behind him, between rows of empty seats.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Castle Valley Pageant rolls on after founder dies

CASTLE DALE — For the first time since it began 32 years ago, the Castle Valley Pageant and its 300 Mormon volunteers had to go on without its passionate founder.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Castle Valley Pageant rolls on after founder dies

For the first time since it began 32 years ago, the Castle Valley Pageant and its 300 Mormon volunteers had to go on without its passionate founder.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

‘Single Cell Syndrome': Technology making connecting difficult

There seems to be no shortage of calls among Latter-day Saints: follow-up calls, mission calls, calls to teach and calls to talk and lead. There are even calls to repentance.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Youths don’t let burning bus damper pioneer trek

Before stepping out of the bus, 18-year-old Dallon Findlay glanced back and noticed swirls of smoke wafting behind him, between rows of empty seats.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Abandoning home phones creates ‘Single Cell Syndrome’

There seems to be no shortage of calls among Latter-day Saints: follow-up calls, mission calls, calls to teach, and calls to talk and lead. There are even calls to repentance.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Salt Lake City, LDS Church set to host interfaith conference

Salt Lake City, and partly the Mormon church, will host a five-day international interfaith conference starting July 24.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Understanding Adam and Eve’s role

Early Mormon theology about the divine origin and destiny of Adam may have been an affront to contemporary Protestants, who revered such ambiguities as hallowed mysteries, but such candid new doctrine — like Adam’s spirit existing before coming to earth — eventually encouraged Latter-day Saints to view Adam’s role as both a literal and figurative one.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Salt Lake City, LDS Church set to host interfaith conference

SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City, and partly the LDS Church, will host a five-day international interfaith conference starting July 24.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

LDS Scouter gives service to Methodists

Like plaid shorts with black socks, there was just something funny about the proposed combination: a Mormon branch president as Scout leader for a Methodist congregation.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Scripture in depth: Mosiah 3:18

King Benjamin’s speech emphasized the atoning functions of the Savior’s blood more than any other aspect of Christ’s ministry.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Mormon Scoutmaster serves Methodist congregation for 20-plus years

Like plaid shorts with black socks, there was just something funny about the proposed combination: a Mormon branch president as Scout leader for a Methodist congregation.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

A literal — and figurative — understanding of Adam

Early Mormon theology about the divine origin and destiny of Adam may have been an affront to contemporary Protestants, who revered such ambiguities as hallowed mysteries.

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Literally or figuratively children of God?

Is man a literal child of God through a sort of spiritual procreation? Or was man perhaps more or less spiritually adopted by Heavenly Father in a premortal life?

By Jacob Hancock

Faith

Scripture in depth: Genesis 2:15

“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”

By Jacob Hancock