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Parents at a California elementary school have been left outraged after discovering a 'secret' LGBTQ club set up by a teacher. The third-grade staffer, who was not identified, formed the 'you be you' at Pleasant Grove Elementary School in Elk Grove. The teacher invited students in the fourth through sixth grade to attend the private meetings. Brittani Cortina, who has a second and a fourth grader at the school, said her older child told her the teacher went into class and told the students about the club. Cortina said: 'The teacher came in and spoke about how boys like boys...

PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A Pleasant Grove man tried to visit his alleged girlfriend Sunday night, but he didn't make it where he said he was going. Instead he walked into the wrong house and into the bed of a woman who says she had no idea who he was. Lt. Mike Roberts with Pleasant Grove Police described the events Sunday night after Michael Hanks went into the wrong house. Lt. Roberts said, “He walked into the master bedroom and climbed inside the bed with who he thought was his girlfriend and started to kiss her and...

Without dissent, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that governments may accept permanent religious monuments in public parks without violating the Constitution. Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., wrote for the Court in Pleasant Grove City v. Summum (07-665). Such a monument, whether government financed or privately donated, must be considered “government speech,” conveying a message that it wishes to get out about “esthetics, history, and local culture.” Four Justices filed concurring opinions, representing the views of six Justices, thus requiring their views to be taken into account in determining just when governments may put up such monuments on public property.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a Utah city can refuse to put a religious group's monument in a public park near a similar Ten Commandments display. The justices unanimously sided with the city of Pleasant Grove, which had said a ruling for the religious group would mean public parks across the country would have to allow privately donated monuments that express different views from those already on display. The Summun religious group, founded in Salt Lake City in 1975, sought in 2003 to erect a monument to the tenets of its faith, called the...

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a free speech case in which a church wants to place a religious monument in a park. Officials in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, asked the court to step into the lawsuit brought by the religious group known as Summum, saying that if the group prevails, governments would be inundated with demands to display donated monuments. The dispute stems from Pleasant Grove City's refusal to allow the display of a "Seven Aphorisms of Summum" monument in the same park that is the home for a Ten Commandments monument donated by the Fraternal Order of...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether a religious group must be allowed to put its monument in a city park near a similar Ten Commandments display. The justices agreed to hear an appeal by the city, Pleasant Grove in Utah, arguing that a lower-court ruling for the religious group could affect whether cities around the nation must display privately donated monuments on public property. The Summun religious group, founded in Salt Lake City in 1975, sought to erect a monument to the tenets of its faith, called the "Seven Aphorisms," in a...

The grandfather of a boy killed by a black bear while camping blamed the U.S. Forest Service Tuesday for not getting the word out about an earlier attack. Before 11-year-old Sam Ives was attacked and killed Sunday night, the same bear had attacked campers in the same spot hours earlier. Eldon Ives is the boy's grandfather. He told reporters Tuesday that he hoped the Forest Service will do a better job of protecting campers after Sam's death. He said the violent way his grandson was killed is a sorrow that will never heal. Sam Ives would have been a 6th...

Man set for execution today in 1989 slaying of neighbor Relatives remember kindness of Pleasant Grove woman, 80, attacked in her home 09/17/2002 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News Nina Rutherford Redd couldn't imagine the danger that lived two doors away from her. In 1989, after a man moved into her neighborhood with his teenage girlfriend and infant son, Ms. Redd tried to help the struggling couple, giving them milk for their baby and access to her phone. Several weeks later, the man broke into the 80-year-old woman's Pleasant Grove home and beat her and raped her...