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BOISE — Sen. Brent Hill, president pro tempore of the Idaho Senate, needs help to forge a compromise between the LGBT community and people of faith. But when he published an op-ed this week asking for it, no one showed up.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Stallions are ready to finally be home.

While the Alliance of American Football's debut season started two weeks ago, the Stallions finally arrived in Salt Lake City on Thursday. The team has been staying in San Antonio, where the AAF held a league-wide training camp in January, while the Stallions' football offices were being finished.

Top stories this week include the 2020 presidential election, President Trump's declaration at the border last Friday and new information surrounding Jussie Smollett's alleged attack.

President Trump declared a national emergency to fund building a wall at the southern border on Feb. 15.

SALT LAKE CITY — The House voted without discussion 50-20 to approve changes made in a radioactive waste bill dealing with the potential storage of depleted uranium in Utah.

First, a host of people were quick to take to social media to show support and express outrage when actor Jussie Smollett claimed he had been assaulted by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs, struck him and poured some chemical on him. That list included the majority of the Democratic presidential candidates, scores of members of Congress and even the president himself. They seemed so sure of the facts.

SALT LAKE CITY — Politicians are routinely mocked on social media for offering "thoughts and prayers" instead of policy action in the midst of crisis.

After a mass shooting, for example, many Americans say they want new gun control laws, not kind thoughts. After a natural disaster, they ask politicians to increase federal aid, not tweet their heartfelt concern to those who lost their homes.

SALT LAKE CITY — Travelers and visitors to the revamped Salt Lake City International Airport will find a host of new and familiar dining options when the first phase of the project officially opens late next year.

Officials Wednesday announced the roster of food and beverage purveyors that will fill the spaces of the new concourses at the overhauled airport.

SANDY — Mayor Kurt Bradburn announced Wednesday his director of public utilities will be on paid leave while an independent investigation probes the inadvertent release of concentrated fluoride into a portion of the city's drinking water system.

Bradburn said the move regarding Tom Ward is best for the city as the "fact gathering process plays out."

An 18-year-old missionary from Utah serving The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Dominican Republic passed away Wednesday morning after falling from the roof of his apartment building.

Elder Brennan Conrad, of Hyde Park, Utah, was serving in the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission at the time of the incident.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The highlight of Saturday night's All-Star competitions for Utah Jazz fans happened a few feet off the court.

After opting to not defend his 2018 slam dunk championship, Donovan Mitchell still played a role in the night's festivities. He joined TNT announcer Kevin Harlan and analysts Chris Webber, Reggie Miller and Kenny Smith as part of the broadcast crew for the dunk contest.

OREM — In late November of 1988, Los Angeles Lakers head coach Pat Riley trademarked the phrase 'three-peat.' His 'Showtime' Lakers had won back-to-back titles and the expectation was that they would win a third.

The Lakers fell short of that goal, however, and lost to the Detroit Pistons in 1989.

Saturday night at Utah Valley University's UCCU Center, the Juab Wasps did what those Lakers could not — they three-peated.

Editor's note: On the same week that President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, Deseret News reporter Tad Walch and photojournalist Jeff Allred traveled to Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico, to discover how churches fill the nation's humanitarian gap.

SANDY — Contaminated drinking water sickened a 3-month-old baby and several other people in an area of Sandy where a no-drink order is in place pending lab results on levels of copper and lead.

SALT LAKE CITY — The Supreme Court needed only two paragraphs to spark a national outcry with its Feb. 7 decision allowing an execution to proceed.