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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...

Derek Kitchen and Ephraim Kum write that now is the time to get on the right side of Black History Month.

Utah Senate Bill 107 has been gutted and rewritten into an entirely new purpose.

Published February 12, 2021 at 6:46 PM MST Listen • 5:30 / The Utah Legislature honored former University of Utah student-athlete Lauren McCluskey on Friday, which would have been her 24th birthday. That story and more in this evening's news brief. Friday evening, February 12, 2021 State Gov. Spencer Cox Eliminates Concealed Carry Requirements Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill into law Friday that will remove the requirement to obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm. The law passed the state Legislature almost entirely along party lines. It takes effect ...

Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, discusses amendments to SB107 in the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The language in Weiler’s bill originally took aim at the Salt Lake City School District as the only district that had not offered an in-person learning option at the time. The language now focuses on requirements surrounding “Test to Stay” protocols and thresholds. Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A bill originally seen as a way to push the Salt Lake City School District into returning all students to the classroom is now focusin...