Ezra Taft Benson, head of the Mormon Church since 1985, died Monday at his home in Salt Lake City. Church officials said he had been hospitalized briefly last week for congestive heart failure. He was ...

The winter’s first freezing storms blew eastward last week down the Rocky Mountain slopes, whipped snow flurries across the Great Plains wheatlands, swirled into the Midwest’s corn-hog belt. Farmers, ...