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Sixth man pleads guilty in bull rider heroin death
Posted 9:42 PM 9/2/2010
BEN NEARY Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Another man has pleaded guilty to felony drug charges in the heroin overdose deaths last year of a professional bull rider and two others in Cheyenne. Thirty-four-year-old Christopher Charles Tyson of Cheyenne pleaded guilty on (More)
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Carbon County dismisses charges against ex-officer
Posted 9:28 PM 9/2/2010
RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - Carbon County is dismissing criminal charges against a former Rawlins police captain who had been accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl. The county attorney's office said Thursday it is dismissing charges against Adam Lee Meacham. Prosecutors (More)
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Cody renames street to honor Lt. Shane Childers
Posted 10:06 AM 8/29/2010
CODY, Wyo. (AP) - The city of Cody has named a portion of one of its streets in honor of 1st Lt. Shane Childers of Powell. Childers was the first American killed in combat during the Iraq war. The Cody City Council voted unanimously to rename the stretch of 26th Street between the (More)
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Wyoming gay couple challenges state marriage law
Posted 10:46 AM 8/24/2010
CHEYENNE, WY - A gay couple in Cheyenne has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman.
David Shupe-Roderick and Ryan W. Dupree filed the lawsuit this month. The men are acting as their own attorneys in the case (More)
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Game and Fish moves problem grizzly from Cody
Posted 7:29 AM 8/18/2010
CODY, WY - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has trapped and moved a male grizzly bear that was hanging around a dude ranch at night near Cody.
The game department says it trapped the bear on Sunday. It later released it in the Boone Creek drainage, about 24 miles northwest of Moran. The release site is within currently occupied grizzly bear habitat.
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Two hurt when Game and Fish survey flight crashes
Posted 3:41 PM 8/16/2010
DOUGLAS, Wyo. - A plane contracted by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to survey pronghorn antelope from the air has crashed, injuring the pilot and a state biologist.
Authorities say the small plane crashed Monday morning in a farm field south of Douglas.
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Some Laramie residents oppose mandatory recycling
Posted 10:17 AM 8/15/2010
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - City officials say a proposal to make curbside recycling mandatory in Laramie is angering residents who don't want to pay a monthly fee of $1.66 for the service. Councilor Bryan Shuster says a constituent called him "a four-letter word" at a coffee shop when Shuster (More)
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Wyoming's Micheli: Sheriffs are ultimate authority
Posted 9:55 AM 8/15/2010 by BEN NEARY - Associated Press Writer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron Micheli says local sheriffs are the ultimate law enforcement authority and that federal officials should have to alert sheriffs before arresting anyone in their county. Micheli says he believes the higher power of elected sheriffs (More)
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Wyoming woman accused of passing out, smothering baby
Posted 9:07 AM 8/13/2010
RIVERTON, WY - A Fremont County woman is facing criminal charges for allegedly passing out on top of her infant daughter and smothering her at a women's shelter.
Court documents filed this week say the one-month-old baby was found dead Jan. 12 in the county's Family Violence Center (More)
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Gosar makes bid for governor as political newcomer
Posted 6:44 AM 8/13/2010 by Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Pete Gosar says he decided to run for the Wyoming Democratic Party's gubernatorial nomination because he didn't hear anybody else raising the issues he thinks are important to the state.
Gosar is a 42-year-old pilot for the state transportation department and a political (More)
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