Wyoming News
Commissioners: No liquor license for Sleeping Giant Ski Area
POWELL, Wyo. — Park County Commissioners have turned down a request for a liquor license from Sleeping Giant Ski Area managers, saying they were concerned about drunken driving and selling alcohol in a family friendly environment.
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Casper man pleads guilty to sexually abusing child
CASPER, Wyo. — A 67-year-old Casper man has pleaded guilty to third degree sexual abuse of a minor.
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Game and Fish Commission sets limits on antler, horn gathering
JACKSON, Wyo. — The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has set an antler and horn gathering season for public land west of the Continental Divide in an effort to protect big game on winter range.
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Wyoming lawmakers back plan to make home sales public
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Legislature's Joint Interim Revenue Committee has approved a bill that would make records of home sales open to the public.
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WyDOT to close Bighorn route Dec. 2
SHERIDAN, Wyo. - The Wyoming Department of Transportation plans to close U.S. 14-A west of Burgess Junction for the winter at noon on Dec. 2.
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School bond vote may wait until ’11
CASPER — If the school board tries to pass a bond issue, it won’t happen until 2011.
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Drum, bugle corps starts new season today with auditions
CASPER — The future is now for the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps, which opens defense of its 2009 top 12 Drum Corps International finish with its first audition camp today.
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Death warrant hearing set for inmate
CASPER — A death warrant hearing is scheduled for Dec. 14 for Dale Wayne Eaton, the only inmate on Wyoming’s death row. Eaton was sentenced to death for the 1988 rape and murder of 18-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell. The U.S. Supreme court has declined to review his case.
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Natrona agrees to taller wind towers
CASPER — People living in certain remote areas of Natrona County will be able to erect taller domestic wind turbines after the county commission approved changes in regulations Tuesday.
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Utility: Don’t blame other states
CASPER — Power producers have installed more than 500 megawatts of wind energy generation in Wyoming in the past year. One driver behind the wind boom presumably is action by other states in the West to require that utilities use certain percentages of renewable energy in their power su…
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Advice to Wyoming: Educate workers
CASPER — Like it or not, the nature of energy is changing in the world, and Wyoming will change with it.
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Woman, PacifiCorp settle dispute over medicine in workplace
CASPER — A Glenrock woman and PacifiCorp have settled a lawsuit filed under the Americans With Disabilities Act in which she claimed that her supervisors demanded she stop using medications for chronic pain, according to federal court records.
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Utility could seek smaller rate increase
CASPER — More than a month after requesting a rate hike of 13.7 percent for 2010, Rocky Mountain Power officials say several factors are in play that could lessen the increase for Wyoming ratepayers.
Nov 20, 2009 | 12:00 am | Loading…
Feature photo: November ride
Killian McClenahan rides his mountain bike at the Casper Skate Park in Casper, Wyo., while on break between classes at Casper College on Thursday afternoon. The warm weather will continue through today, according to the National Weather Service, with a high temperature in the mid 50s.
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Penalty hearing starts for ex-trooper
CHEYENNE — A sentencing hearing got under way Thursday for a former Wyoming state trooper who admitted kidnapping a truck driver in what prosecutors say was an aborted murder plot.
Nov 19, 2009 | 10:30 pm | Loading…
Santa to join celebration at Trail End mansion
SHERIDAN — A visit from jolly old St. Nick will be just one of the new and delightful features of this year’s holiday open house at the Trail End State Historic Site at 400 Clarendon Ave.
Nov 19, 2009 | 10:20 pm | Loading…
Feature photo: Library dedication
Maggie Farrell, University of Wyoming Libraries dean, welcomes a large audience Thursday to the dedication for the addition and renovation to the William Robertson Coe Library. The addition and renovation of Coe Library is more than 281,000 square feet. The building serves as the universi…
Nov 19, 2009 | 10:15 pm | Loading…
Wyoming senators criticize health bill
CHEYENNE — Wyoming Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barrasso are joining their fellow Republicans in blasting health care reform legislation introduced by Senate Democrats.
Nov 19, 2009 | 10:05 pm | Loading…
Former Pavillion town clerk gets probation
LANDER — A former Pavillion town clerk has been fined $1,000 for trying to cash checks she wrote to herself from the town under the guise of a severance payment.
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Executive Book Club discussion set
POWELL — “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High” will drive the Executive Book Club discussion Dec. 3.
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