Former Digital Content Producer

Mark Oliver

Mark Oliver is a former digital content producer for KSL NewsRadio.

Georgia woman spends three months in jail after police mistake cotton candy for meth

Dasha Fincher, a resident of Georgia, spent three years in jail after a bag of cotton candy mistakenly tested positive for methamphetamine.
8 years ago

PayPal offered $6.8 million in tax rebates to establish data center in West Jordan

PayPal is to receive millions in tax breaks to open a data center in West Jordan under a proposed agreement with the West Jordan Redevelopment Agency.
8 years ago

Susan Powell created a “paper trail” of evidence before her disappearance, “Cold” podcast reveals

Susan Powell, in the months before her 2009 disappearance, created a "paper trail" of evidence, convinced her husband Josh would "take [her] out," the podcast "Cold" has revealed.
8 years ago

Despite murder charge, school district says it has a “good system” to screen teachers

The Alpine School District says that they weren't informed about the criminal charge against teacher Chelsea Cook, who was arrested for murder on Sunday.
8 years ago

Utah police have reported six wrong-way driver cases since Friday

Six wrong way driver cases have been reported since Friday, including a terrible accident on the I-15 last night that injured three people.
8 years ago

Chipotle offers to rehire manager labeled racist in viral video

Chipotle has offered to rehire Dominique Martin, the manager they fired after she refused serve a group of dine-and-dashers.
8 years ago

Rep. Paul Ray proposes bill to lower drug prices by giving rebates to the patients

Rep. Paul Ray says that rebates negotiated behind closed doors are a big part of the reason our prescriptions prices are so high, and he wants to change it.
8 years ago

Sen. Mike Lee hopeful mandatory minimum sentencing laws will be gone by the end of the year

Sen. Mike Lee is hopeful that his First Step Act will pass and mandatory minimum sentencing laws will be off the books by the end of the year.
8 years ago

Lyft and Uber try to persuade commuters to give up their cars with new monthly passes

The Lyft Pass gives commuters up to 30 free rides a month for $299. But when you read the fine print, is it really worth it?
8 years ago

OPINION: Police officers need our support when they’re forced to take a life

The impact pulling the trigger has on police officers' lives is unimaginable. Usually, it's the moment we turn on them, but, Dave Noriega says, it's when they most need our support.
8 years ago

GoFundMe campaign that raised $400,000 for a homeless veteran exposed as fraud

Johnny Bobbitt captured the hearts of America when a New Jersey couple told the world that Bobbitt, a homeless veteran, had spent his last $20 to help them out of a jam. But that heartwarming story took a dark turn today with the new allegation that the whole story was nothing more than an elaborate […]
8 years ago

Mia Love campaign files lawsuit to stop ballot counting in Salt Lake County

Mia Love has filed a lawsuit to stop Salt Lake County from counting ballots in her race against Ben McAdams. Is there any justification to it?
8 years ago

Juul stops sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid mounting pressure from FDA

Juul removes their flavored e-cigarettes from the shelves of stores after the FDA gives them 60 days to present a plan to keep their product away from kids.
8 years ago

Denver to vote on whether to drop Olympic bid

Denver is considering dropping its bid to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. If they do, the only American city left in the running with be Salt Lake City.
8 years ago

Ex-girlfriend of Josh Powell shares what she knows about Susan Powell’s disappearance

In December 2009, Catherine Terry Everett saw a familiar face on TV. It was Josh Powell: a man she’d dated ten years before and a man who, now, was the lead suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Susan Powell. For nine years, Everett has stayed silent about her about her part in the Powells’ […]
8 years ago

Water conservancy managers are among Utah’s highest-paid public employees

Water conservancy district employees are among the best-paid public employees, with one-in-three earning more than $100,000 per year.
8 years ago

OPINION: It’s time to crack down on people who run school bus stop signs

Drivers in Utah run school bus stop signs 1,500 time each day. But our school buses film every one, and Debbie Dujanovic says that all they'd have to do is send in to footage to make every one of them pay.
8 years ago

Investigative reporter announces new podcast about Susan Powell

An investigative reporter is ready to share his discoveries from three years of work into the 2009 disappearance of Susan Powell.
8 years ago

After 6 years, only 8 people have been fined under Utah’s idle-free ordinances

Idle-free ordinances now exist in eight cities in Utah. But after six years with the on the books, only eight people have ever been fined.
8 years ago

OPINION: Voting, not voters, may cost Mia Love the election

Voters in Utah County had to wait up to four hours to cast their votes. That's more than just frustrating. It could well cost Mia Love the election.
8 years ago

Proposition 2 has passed. When will medical marijuana become legal in Utah?

Utah has voted in favor of legalized medical marijuana, but it'll take until December for Proposition 2 to become law, and a lot can still change.
8 years ago

OPINION: Utah’s voters are too smart to fall for attack ads

This election has given us some of the dirtiest attack ads in recent memory. Debbie Dujanovic says it time politicians giving all the mudslinging a rest.
8 years ago

University of Utah students organize mass walkout to vote

Walkout to Vote Utah organized a mass walkout on the University of Utah campus, encouraging a mass exodus of students from the campus to the poll booth.
8 years ago

SNL star Pete Davidson mocks veteran’s war wound

SNL's Pete Davidson joked that veteran Dan Crenshaw looks like a "hitman in a porno movie" because of the injury he sustained as a Navy SEAL.
8 years ago