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Deseret News Share this story Ivy Ceballo, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — Ken Dudley told a panel of Utah lawmakers on Wednesday that when he was shot twice while driving his car during a protest against police brutality in Provo last year, it was “one of the most terrifying things that’s happened to me.” Days after Dudley got home from the hospital — with wounds from a bullet that went through his elbow and hit his other arm, bullet fragments that hit his eye and shrapnel in his abdomen — he said he was horrified to learn the man accused of shooting him was released from jail aft...

KUER A Utah legislative committee approved a bill that creates harsher penalties for people charged with rioting. A bill that increases penalties and eliminates bail for rioting passed a Utah legislative committee Wednesday. The proposal from Sen. David Hinkins, R-Ferron, is in response to last year’s protests against police brutality and racial injustice. During the presentation to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hinkins brought members of the armed neighborhood watch group United Citizens Alarm to present the bill with him. Casey Robertson said he formed the organization after a motorist...

‘Enough’s enough’: Utah lawmakers move to toughen penalties on ‘rioters’ Katie McKellar © Ivy Ceballo, Deseret News People jump on top of an overturned police car as they protest police brutality in Salt Lake City on Saturday, May 30, 2020. SALT LAKE CITY — Ken Dudley told a panel of Utah lawmakers on Wednesday that when he was shot twice while driving his car during a protest against police brutality in Provo last year, it was “one of the most terrifying things that’s happened to me.” Days after Dudley got home from the hospital — with wounds from a bu...

Deseret News Share this story Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — With the Utah Legislature marking the midpoint of its annual 45-day session, the issue of regulating centers for troubled teens got a high-profile boost when celebrity Paris Hilton testified on Capitol Hill about her time spent in such a facility in Provo. Sitting in front of a panel of Utah lawmakers on Monday, Hilton said she’s had the same nightmare for the past 20 years in which she’s “kidnapped in the middle of the night by two strangers, strip searched and locked in a facility.” Hilton and other “...

SALT LAKE CITY — With the Utah Legislature marking the midpoint of its annual 45-day session, the issue of regulating centers for troubled teens got a high-profile boost when celebrity Paris Hilton testified on Capitol Hill about her time spent in such a facility in Provo. Sitting in front of a panel of Utah lawmakers on Monday, Hilton said she's had the same nightmare for the past 20 years in which she's "kidnapped in the middle of the night by two strangers, strip searched and locked in a facility." Hilton and other "survivors of the troubled-teen industry" gave chilling testimony in fron...