Colby Walker

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Website: http://www.kslnewsradio.com

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

How to fight back against sextortion – and avoid being a victim

Dave & Dujanovic: "It's an important conversation to have because sextortion is the fastest growing crime on the internet."
5 years ago

NASA’s ‘loneliest man’? Far from it: Astronaut Michael Collins on the ‘cathedral’ of Apollo 11

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins remembers looking up a the sky as a child, seeing "the most marvelous things up there" and wanting to know more about them, he told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That's when he knew that he wanted to fly.
5 years ago

Most self-driving companies say this tech is crucial. Elon Musk disagrees.

For most people building self-driving cars, lidar is viewed as a godsend. In recent years, enthusiasm for the technology has sparked shortages of the depth-measuring sensor, acquisitions of startups developing it and more than a billion dollars of investments.
5 years ago

Facebook plans its own currency for 2 billion-plus users

Facebook already rules daily communication for more than two billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too.
5 years ago

Father of boy killed in school massacre wins defamation suit

The father of a victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has won a defamation lawsuit against the authors of a book that claimed the shooting never happened — the latest victory for victims' relatives who have been taking a more aggressive stance against conspiracy theorists.
5 years ago

Utah university offers fingerprinting for DACA recipients

Police at Dixie State University are offering people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and others fingerprinting services — a required step to secure driving privileges in Utah.
5 years ago

Watchdog to investigate Interior moves on Utah monument

A government watchdog will investigate whether the U.S. Interior Department broke the law by making plans to open lands cut from a Utah national monument by President Donald Trump to leasing for oil, gas and coal development, a pair of Democratic congress members said Monday.
5 years ago

Government fails to release data on deaths in police custody

More than four years after Congress required the Department of Justice to assemble information about those who die in police custody, the agency has yet to implement a system for collecting that data or release any new details of how and why people die under the watch of law enforcement.
5 years ago

Masked gunman killed in shootout at Dallas courthouse

An Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead Monday after he opened fire outside a busy federal courthouse in downtown Dallas, authorities said.
5 years ago

Bacon App creating a sizzle in gig economy

Users of the Bacon app are matched up with short-term, incidental hourly work that companies need to fill quickly - like Uber for jobs.
5 years ago

How the Find My Friends app saved this 17-year-old’s life

Macy Smith's mom says when the teen missed curfew, it was very out of character -- and that's when she turned to the Find My Friends app.
5 years ago

Man suspected of DUI in fatal boat crash on Lake Powell

A 21-year-old may be facing charges after he is suspected of driving a boat while under the influence when he hit a rock, throwing an 18-year-old girl into Lake Powell, killing her.
5 years ago

Supreme Court avoids new case over same-sex wedding cake

The Supreme Court is throwing out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
5 years ago

OJ Simpson posts video to announce official Twitter account

O.J. Simpson launched a Twitter account with a video post in which the former football star said he's got a "little gettin' even to do."
5 years ago

Iran says it will break uranium stockpile limit in 10 days

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days, the spokesman for the country’s atomic agency said Monday while also warning that Iran could enrich uranium up to 20% — just a step away from weapons-grade levels. The announcement by […]
5 years ago

14,000 cases of a flour brand have been recalled nationwide because of E. coli fears

Five-pound bags of unbleached, all-purpose flour made by King Arthur Flour Inc. may be contaminated with E. coli., the Food and Drug Administration said.
5 years ago

Utah hoping to impress the nation’s top foodies

Tourism officials hope to surprise some of these top foodies from around the country by showing them that Salt Lake City has some serious culinary talent.
5 years ago

5 high schoolers selected as National Student Poets

Five 10th and 11th graders have been named National Student Poets and will serve as regional literary ambassadors through readings, workshops and other programs.
5 years ago

Snowmelt fills rivers in US Southwest, easing drought fears

A welcome surge of melting snow is pouring out of the Rocky Mountains and into the drought-stricken rivers of the southwestern U.S., fending off a water shortage but threatening to push rivers over their banks.
5 years ago

Utah officer who pulled gun on black child sparks protests

Activists are planning to protest at a police agency in northern Utah after learning an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old child will continue to work.
5 years ago

LGBTQ pride flags spurs debate in small town of Heber City

"It would have been naive for me to think that there would not have been a strong possibility of some negative feedback," Belnap said. "But I just felt very moved that it was time for us. in my community, and Utah as a whole, to look past some of the older thoughts and beliefs and start saying we care more about people than we care about what happens behind closed doors."
5 years ago

New York ends religious exemption to vaccine mandates

New York eliminated the religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren Thursday, as the nation's worst measles outbreak in decades prompts states to reconsider giving parents ways to opt out of immunization rules.
5 years ago

Thai vets nurture lost baby dugong with milk and sea grass

A baby dugong, a large ocean mammal, that has developed an attachment to humans after being separated from its mother and getting lost off southern Thailand is being nurtured by marine experts in hopes that it can one day fend for itself.
5 years ago

I’ll take a McMansion with a side of sadness

There are over 700 McMansions for sale in Salt Lake County right now, and studies are showing that all that house doesn't make you any happier.
5 years ago