Colby Walker

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Colby Walker is a former digital content producer with KSL NewsRadio.

Small cans lead to big sales for Coca-Cola

Good things came in small sizes for Coca-Cola last quarter. The company reported sales that topped forecasts, thanks in part to a double-digit increase in volume for its 7.5-ounce mini cans.
5 years ago

3 US soldiers killed in crash at Fort Stewart in Georgia

U.S. Army officials say three soldiers were killed and three others were injured when the armored vehicle they were riding in rolled over into water during training at Fort Stewart in Georgia.
5 years ago

Illegal vapes traced to California woman who was CBD pioneer

Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun. What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures.
5 years ago

Researchers find second warship from WWII Battle of Midway

A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway.
5 years ago

UK’s Boris Johnson set to push for vote on EU divorce bill

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was expected to push for a vote on his European Union divorce deal on Monday, as Parliament geared up for a week of guerrilla warfare over Brexit.
5 years ago

Vatican launches $110 ‘click to pray’ wearable rosary

The Rosary is going mobile. The Vatican announced the launch of the "Click to Pray eRosary" Wednesday. October is the month of the Rosary.
5 years ago

Lakers fan raises nearly $43k to hand out “Stand with Hong Kong” T-shirts

"Wouldn't it be hilarious, if... the NBA fanbase made a collective demonstration for free expression by wearing 'STAND WITH HONG KONG' T-Shirts?"
5 years ago

95% of tested baby foods in the US contain toxic metals, report says

Toxic heavy metals damaging to your baby's brain development are likely in the baby food you are feeding your infant, according to a new investigation published Thursday.
5 years ago

Why Hong Kong is protesting: Their five demands listed

(CNN) — Hong Kong is facing a major political crisis amid repeated street protests and mass demonstrations. What started as a movement against a controversial law has expanded into something much bigger. Over the past few months, the demonstrations have evolved from millions marching through the streets, to groups of protesters in hard hats storming […]
5 years ago

Like it or not, science backs up your teen’s love of the snooze button

In the battle between the adolescent penchant for hitting the snooze button and parental desire to rush them onto an early morning school bus, experts say science is increasingly siding with the snooze.
5 years ago

Can Microsoft Flight Simulator’s 2020 reboot solve the pilot shortage?

A colossus of the gaming world is stirring from hibernation. Microsoft Flight Simulator
5 years ago

China detains 2 US citizens who ran teaching program

China said Thursday it detained two U.S. citizens on suspicion of organizing others to illegally cross the border, amid sharpening tensions between the sides over trade, technology and other sensitive issues.
5 years ago

Roadside Bigfoot: Georgia museum devoted to legendary beast

CHERRY LOG, Ga. (AP) — Along a bustling four-lane highway that winds through the north Georgia mountains, an unassuming wooden structure breaks the monotony of churches, billboards and stores selling kitschy knickknacks. Once a BYOB supper club, it’s now ground zero in the search for a legendary beast. Welcome to Expedition: Bigfoot! The Sasquatch Museum. […]
5 years ago

Former Nazi SS guard, 93, going on trial in Hamburg

From his post as a young SS private in a watchtower in Nazi Germany's Stutthof concentration camp, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber. And, Dey later told investigators, the carting of their lifeless bodies to the camp's crematorium was a daily sight.
5 years ago

US delegation seeking a cease-fire with Turkey and Kurds

A senior U.S. delegation faces the herculean task of pressuring Turkey to accept a cease-fire in Northern Syria, hours after President Donald Trump declared the U.S. has no stake in defending Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America's partners against Islamic State extremists.
5 years ago

Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died

Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68.
5 years ago

WATCH: UHP Trooper pulls man from car seconds before train crash

Dashcam video shows the tense situation as Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Ruben Correa pulled a driver to safety just moments before a FrontRunner train crash.
5 years ago

These are the new spacesuits for the first woman and next man on the moon

A human hasn't landed on the moon since 1972, but NASA's Artemis program aims to land the first woman and the next man on the lunar surface by 2024. Part of that process involves upgrading the classic spacesuits worn by Apollo-era astronauts in the 1960s and 70s.
5 years ago

Twitter explains why it hasn’t suspended Trump’s account

Twitter will continue to take a forgiving approach to objectionable tweets by world leaders, arguing that their messages are often of public interest.
5 years ago

Western governors want nuclear testing compensation expanded

Atmospheric nuclear weapons testing exposed more states and more people to radiation fallout and resulting cancers and other diseases than the federal government currently recognizes, Western governors said.
5 years ago

Fearing US abandonment, Kurds kept back channels wide open

When Syria's Kurdish fighters, America's longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash.
5 years ago

Chinese snooping tech spreads to nations vulnerable to abuse

When hundreds of video cameras with the power to identify and track individuals started appearing in the streets of Belgrade as part of a major surveillance project, some protesters began having second thoughts about joining anti-government demonstrations in the Serbian capital.
5 years ago

Kim rides horse on sacred peak, vows to fight US sanctions

North Korea released a series of photos Wednesday showing leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse to a sacred mountain he has often climbed before making key decisions. Near the mountain, Kim reportedly vowed to overcome U.S.-led sanctions that he said had both pained and infuriated his people.
5 years ago

Why are so many families behind on school lunch debt? It’s complicated

In the Granite School District, if all children eligible for free or reduced lunch applied, the district wouldn't have a school lunch debt problem.
5 years ago