SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Mormon church officials say they spent $190,000 more supporting the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban than they previously reported.

They previously listed just $2,078 to support the ban.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is being investigated by the state Fair Political Practices Commission.

The report filed Friday with the secretary of state lists church leaders’ travel expenses; $20,575 to use facilities and equipment at the church’s Salt Lake City headquarters; and $96,849 to pay employees who worked for the ban.

Fred Karger of Californians Against Hate says the disclosures show the church previously failed to properly report spending. His group, which opposed Proposition 8, filed the complaint with campaign watchdogs in November.

Church officials aren’t immediately commenting.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) – A California appeals court has ruled that a Christian high school can expel students because of an alleged lesbian relationship.

The 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside on Monday upheld California Lutheran High School’s right as a private, religious organization to exclude students based on sexual orientation.

Two girls sued claiming they were discriminated against after they were expelled from the Wildomar school in 2005. A lower court said the school isn’t bound by the same anti-discrimination laws as a business establishment.

John McKay, attorney for California Lutheran, says the school’s goal is to educate based on Christian principles.

The attorney for the girls could not be immediately reached Tuesday.

TURLOCK, Calif. (AP) – A Turlock city councilwoman has filed a lawsuit to find out who was behind automated calls that impersonated her and urged voters to vote “no” on Proposition 8.

Councilwoman Mary Jackson alleges unfair business practices and seeks at least $10,000 in damages.

The voice on the robocall urged voters to support a community that supports everyone “irregardless of whom they choose to love.” The calls went out two days before Election Day. The measure which outlawed same-sex marriage passed.

Attorney Dan Farr said the lawsuit allows him to subpoena records and take sworn testimony.

The message said the calls were “paid for by the Friends of Mary Jackson.”

Jackson has not publicly said whether she supported or opposed the measure.

ATLANTA (AP) – The Atlanta Pride Festival is returning to Piedmont Park.

The Pride festival will be held in the fall rather than its usual time in late June. City officials and festival organizers said Monday the festival is now scheduled for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.

The festival was last held in Piedmont Park in June 2007.

Last year Pride organizers held the festival at Atlanta’s civic center and said crowds and revenues were down from past years when the festival was held in the park.

Atlanta has been reluctant to allow many large events in Piedmont Park since late 2007 when state officials announced drought restrictions. Atlanta officials have said they were worried it will take longer for the park’s grass to recover from major events during the drought.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A New Hampshire lawmaker is holding off on a bill to add civil union partners to all state insurance laws. Democratic state Rep. Edward Butler, the bill’s sponsor, is vice-chair of the House commerce committee. He asked the committee Jan. 29 to recommend that the full House kill the bill. He said lawmakers should resolve other civil union bills first.

Those include a bill to grant civil unions to straight couples and a bill to recognize same-sex marriages in other states as civil unions in New Hampshire. Another bill would institute same-sex marriage in the Granite State, while a competing measure would ban same-sex marriage.

Hearings on the marriage bills are scheduled for Feb. 5.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The Rev. V. Gene Robinson will testify Thursday before the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee on a bill to allow same-sex marriage in the Granite State.

In 2003, the Episcopal Church consecrated Robinson, the church’s first openly gay bishop. That prompted a rift in the global Anglican Communion, which the church belongs to.

Democratic state Rep. Jim Splaine, the bill’s sponsor, said Robinson wants to see marriage equality in New Hampshire.

A state law granting civil unions to same-sex couples took effect last year. More than 600 couples have had civil unions since then.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A California lawyer has been convicted in New Hampshire federal court of conspiracy charges involving a drug used to treat people infected with HIV.

Robert McFadden of Palm Springs, Calif., was accused of illegally buying Serostim, from HIV-infected patients, and then illegally distributing it on the wholesale market using falsified paperwork.

Serostim is an injectable drug made by Serono Inc. of Massachusetts. It is used to treat a wasting syndrome in HIV patients.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says McFadden used his client trust account to receive money from licensed wholesalers of prescription drugs who bought the drug from a licensed wholesaler of prescription drugs based in Milford, N.H. The client trust account also was used to pay the illegal suppliers of the Serostim by purchasing cashiers checks drawn at a bank in Palm Springs.

The maximum penalties for the three conspiracy counts are between five and 20 years.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Clergy at a church are protesting Ohio’s ban on same-sex marriage by refusing to sign state marriage licenses for heterosexual couples.

The Rev. John Tamilio III, head pastor at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, said the move is a civil-rights protest. Ministers won’t sign the licenses until same-sex unions are legal in Ohio.

Ohio voters approved a same-sex marriage ban in 2004.

Heterosexual couples exchanging wedding vows at Pilgrim Congregational will need an additional civil ceremony by a justice of the peace or a judge to make their union legal. The church as about 460 members.

The United Church of Christ, a 1.2 million member denomination headquartered in Cleveland, adopted a resolution supporting same-sex marriage at a national synod in Atlanta three years ago.

Greg Brekke, a spokesman for the national church, said each of the denomination’s 5,600 congregations is free to choose whether to sign marriage licenses.

The church says at least five other UCC congregations – three in the Minneapolis area, one in Oregon and one in North Carolina – have undertaken similar marriage protests.

In a different denomination, dozens of Unitarian Universalist ministers across the country, including those in Arkansas, California and Massachusetts, also have declined to sign state marriage licenses for the same reason.

That included Rev. William Sinkford, the Boston-based president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, who refused to sign state licenses until May 2004 when Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriages.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota reported 34 new cases of HIV or AIDS in 2008, including two cases in newborns.

The Health Department said only five other infants in South Dakota have been found to have HIV since 1985.

The largest one-year number of HIV/AIDS cases was 37 in 1989. The Health Department said the five-year median for new cases is 25.

An estimated 365 South Dakota residents are living with HIV or AIDS, and 588 have been infected with HIV since 1985 when the first case was identified.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Senate committee has defeated the first of a package of bills to give basic civil rights to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Utahns.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake, would have amended state law to allow anyone in certain types of dependent relationships, including same-sex couples, to sue for wrongful death damages.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted down the bill Jan. 27, with McCoy and Sen. Ross Romero, D-Salt Lake, supporting it.

The senators who voted against the bill said they were concerned that approving it would be a move toward legalizing same-sex marriage, which was banned in a constitutional amendment in 2004.

McCoy says opponents were trying to link the bill to marriage, but that it was specific in not being about that issue.