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CHEYENNE – As the COVID-19 pandemic caused people to keep their health at the forefront of their minds, it’s also caused fewer people to go to doctor’s offices and hospitals to seek care for other ailments. This is causing hospitals and clinics nationwide to suffer negative financial consequences from the pandemic that’s also causing businesses to close and people to lose jobs. Physicians statewide have experienced financial strain that they foresee continuing amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a news release from the Wyoming Medical...
CHEYENNE – Gov. Mark Gordon announced Thursday that he will be releasing modifications to the existing public health orders next week to allow more county-by-county flexibility when it comes to reopening certain businesses and public spaces. At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Gordon said the modified orders will run through May 15. The original orders are set to expire April 30. As of Thursday afternoon, there were 332 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 121 probable virus cases and seven deaths from the virus statewide, according to the Wyoming D...
CHEYENNE - Nationwide, there's been a decrease in the number of people seeking timely treatment for heart attacks and strokes, and the trend is being seen locally at Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. There's about a 40% reduction in stroke and heart attack patients coming to hospitals nationwide, according to a Medscape article. Dr. Jessica Hughes, CRMC Emergency Department medical director, said the ER has seen about a 50% decrease in patients overall, including a 40% reduction in stroke and heart attack patients. The ER is used to seeing...
CHEYENNE – Laramie County School District 1 is being sued for its handling of a sexual relationship between a student and a teacher. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court on March 31 against the district by the sexual assault survivor. The former student was in the class of a former math teacher, Joseph Meza, at Johnson Junior High School in Cheyenne. Meza pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a minor in 2018 for having sex with a student, an adoptive teenage daughter, when he was in his 30s, according to previous reporting. H...
CHEYENNE – A court case that would determine whether or not transgender people in Wyoming can change the their gender on their birth certificate is being decided by the Wyoming Supreme Court. The case, MH v. First Judicial District Court of Laramie County, Honorable Peter Froelicher presiding, was originally scheduled for oral arguments in March. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, those arguments were canceled, and the case is being decided from the written briefs submitted by each party. MH, who is being identified by her initials in court d...
CHEYENNE – Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, people are being asked to social distance themselves and stay home. For domestic violence survivors, this advice can turn deadly. Fortunately, local law enforcement either haven’t seen a rise in domestic violence related incidents, or have recorded a very low increase in domestic violence calls. But domestic violence advocates say abusers use isolation as a tactic to continue their abuse. Safehouse Services Executive Director Carla Thurin said isolation is already a tactic abusers use to vict...
CHEYENNE – A Cheyenne man charged in a fatal shooting earlier this week was released from custody five days earlier because prosecutors declined to move forward with a pending case of misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine. Andrew Weaver, 25, had his initial appearance on the newest charges Thursday afternoon in Laramie County Circuit Court. He faces two counts of second-degree murder, one count of attempted second-degree murder, and two counts of aggravated assault and battery with bodily injury with a weapon. After be...
CHEYENNE — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne announced Tuesday that three new allegations by Wyoming child abuse victims against retired Bishop Joseph Hart have been deemed credible and substantiated. In July and August 2018, the diocese announced it had conducted a canonical investigation and concluded that Hart abused three Wyoming boys. Since the original announcement, three more substantiated allegations came against Hart. This means a total of six victims have come forward to the church and were found to be credible. These three n...
CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Supreme Court last week affirmed a decision out of Laramie County District Court that requires a local woman to pay restitution following her “no contest” plea to exploiting a vulnerable adult. Linda M. Freeman appealed the decision on the basis that the district court acted “contrary to law” by awarding restitution to the victim’s estate. District Judge Catherine Rogers ordered Freeman to pay the estate $532,890.80 in restitution. Freeman raised four issues to the Supreme Court: whether the district court erred in or...
CHEYENNE — The Cheyenne Police Department has recommended sexual abuse charges against a member of the Roman Catholic clergy and another man who was seeking to join the clergy related to incidents from the 1970s and ’80s. In a news release, CPD said it has sent a recommendation for charges to the Laramie County District Attorney’s Office after a year-and-a-half-long investigation into allegations that juvenile males were the victims of sex abuse. One of the suspects was a member of the Catholic clergy and another person was seeking membe...
CHEYENNE - A man was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in Cheyenne. Keith Anthony Crawford was arrested July 25 after Cheyenne Police investigated him on suspicion of sex trafficking. Crawford's case is making its was through U.S. District court. He most recently waived his preliminary examination and is currently in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General. He is being charged with transportation in interstate commerce for purpose of prostitution. He was discovered when officers were conducting an undercover investigation into...
CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Attorney General’s office filed suit last week against Equifax Inc. for allegedly violating the Wyoming Consumer Protection Act. The lawsuit filed in Laramie County District Court alleges Equifax partook in unfair and deceptive trade practices in connection with “consumer transactions prohibited by the Wyoming Consumer Protection Act.” The case comes as Equifax reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in connection with its 2017 data breach that comprom...