Big Water News

Some people might think Big Water is a backwater. The streets of this tiny southern Utah town weren't even paved until 2002.

Alanna Farnsworth had no one to talk to when her son told her he was gay. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Farnsworth wanted to discuss this new development with other LDS parents of children who had come out as gay.

Alexander James Bybee was 16 years old in 1996 when he murdered a 6-year-old boy -- his cousin by virtue of a polygamous relationship -- and hid the body in a shallow grave in the southern Utah community of Big Water in Kane County.

Utah's rich sandstone yields one new Cretaceous-era dinosaur species after another, but the latest one, a pot-bellied herbivore with a meat-eating ancestry, is so strange it took nearly a decade to properly describe and name it.

The developer of an Amanresort - part of a network of exotic getaways for the world's richest people - says it will open near Lake Powell in September.