Facilities hosting a new guest experience at Temple Square are among the latest focus of construction in the ongoing Salt Lake Temple/Temple Square renovation project in downtown Salt Lake City. Two ground-level pavilions and a multilevel guest building are being built in the area where the South Visitors’ Center previously stood on Temple Square. Demolition of the visitors’ center was done in early 2020, and with crews having completed excavation of the area, the pavilions and guest building are being erected.

Boise, ID (CBS2) — The winter weather continues today with a snow rain mix for most of the day. The National Weather Service says that there will be snow through out the morning that will turn to rain this afternoon and throughout the night. The high for today is expected to reach 41 degrees with a low of 36 degrees. Sunday things will stay soggy with rain throughout the day but clearing up over night into Monday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For more than 60 years, Harry Dean Stanton played crooks and codgers, eccentrics and losers. He endowed them with pathos and compassion and animated them with his gaunt, unforgettable presence, making would-be fringe figures feel central to the films they appeared in. The late critic Roger Ebert once said no movie can be altogether bad if it includes Stanton in a supporting role, and the wide cult of fans that included directors and his fellow actors felt the same.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — He was the reluctant pope, a shy bookworm who preferred solitary walks in the Alps and Mozart piano concertos to the public glare and majesty of Vatican pageantry. When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI and was thrust into the footsteps of his beloved and charismatic predecessor, he said he felt a guillotine had come down on him. So it should have come as little surprise that with a few words uttered in Latin on a Vatican holiday in 2013, Benedict ended it all, announcing that he would become the first pope in 600 years to resign.

Each Tuesday of the semester at 11:05 a.m., students, faculty and staff of Brigham Young University are invited to receive spiritual and temporal edification by listening to a devotional or forum address in the Marriott Center. The speaker lineup for winter semester 2024, published on Dec. 18 on BYU’s newsroom, will include two Apostles and four other general authorities/officers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as well as a Harvard law professor and an advocate for science and technology education for African Americans.