The Utah state Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to effectively decriminalize polygamy among consenting adults, reducing penalties for practice with deep religious roots in the predominantly Mormon state.

Utah Senate votes to decriminalize polygamy

More than 100 members of a US-Mexican community of Mormon origin have left their homes in northern Mexico after an ambush killed nine of their number, relatives said on Tuesday.

Over 100 people leave Mexican Mormon village after massacre

Mexican-American Mormons bad blood with drug cartels

The massacre of nine women and children in northern Mexico could test breakaway Mormon families' attachment to communities that for decades have been a haven for a way of life shunned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Faith in Mexico shaken for 'true believer' Mormon communities