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  • Health care, tech and trade hopes lead another stock surge

    Jan 27, 2018

    NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks powered to their biggest gain in almost nine months Friday as drugmakers and technology companies surged. Investors were cheered that President Donald Trump appeared to take a more positive tone on international trade. AbbVie boosted biotechnology companies with a strong fourth quarter and a greater annual profit forecast, while Pfizer and other drugmakers also made big gains. Intel had its best day in almost nine years after its fourth-quarter results reassured investors that security flaws recently discovered in i...

  • Local students named to University of Wyoming dean's lists

    Jan 27, 2018

    LARAMIE — The University of Wyoming lists the following students from Wyoming on the 2017 fall semester academic dean’s and dean’s freshman honor rolls. The honor rolls consist of regularly enrolled undergraduates above freshman standing who earned a 3.4 or better grade-point average, and freshmen who have earned a 3.25 or better grade-point average. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades. Local students on the honor roll are: Worland: Bryanna Michelle Barrus, Nathan T. Barru...

  • Karla's Kolumn: There is hope for the future

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Jan 27, 2018

    I met a remarkable young lady Thursday that gave me hope for our future leaders. Much more hope than I had when I read about young people eating detergent pods. At that time I had hope only in survival of the fittest. Grace Belize Anderson is the National Family, Career and Community Leaders of America president. She lives just outside of Devil's Tower in Crook County. She attends Wyoming Virtual Academy and will graduate this May. She already has her plans for the future as she looks toward a...

  • Bringing back the cutthroat

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Jan 27, 2018

    WORLAND – Designated the state fish in 1987, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, a native to Wyoming before settlement and once abundant, is scheduled to be reintroduced to the Absaroka, Beartooth and Big Horn Mountains, but ahead of the measure, Wyoming Game and Fish officials are taking public input from interested anglers and outdoors enthusiasts. Thursday, in Worland, a group of wildlife officials led by Cody Regional Fisheries Supervisor Sam Hochhalter met with a half dozen residents to t...

  • Special Olympics winter area games

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Jan 27, 2018

    TEN SLEEP – Friday morning excited athletes from Northern Wyoming met at Meadowlark Ski Lodge to compete in the area games which consist of alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in order to qualify for the state games in Jackson Feb. 6-8. Bighorn National Forest Service employees assisted the games by keeping time, presenting awards and skiing with athletes competing in alpine skiing. The Special Olympics athletes were enthusiastic about the competition even though the t...

  • NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

    Associated Press|Jan 27, 2018

    A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Charles Schumer Received $500k Donation From Pro-Illegal Alien Group Just Before Vote. THE FACTS: Schumer did not receive donations from the groups Immigration for Everyone, the Council for Alien Rights and the Southern Border Defense Fund before a Jan. 19 congressional vote that led to the three-day...

  • Hear me out...The most courageous 2018 NFL Super Bowl prediction

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Jan 27, 2018

    Football is dead to me. Life is meaningless. All there is to existence is the forsaken black abyss. That clinically depressed donkey from "Winnie the Pooh" nailed the human experience. ... ... ... Blah. Shaking out of it. My beloved Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 loss to the Patriots still stings. So close to the Super Bowl, if two plays go the Jags way we're having a different conversation and my happy-go-lucky disposition is back. But to quote one of my favorite shows of all-time, "The Wire,"...

  • Lady Warriors upset bid of No. 3 Buffalo comes up short

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Jan 27, 2018

    BUFFALO - The fourth quarter demons came back to haunt the Worland Lady Warriors Friday night in a 3A girls basketball matchup with the No. 3-ranked Buffalo Lady Bison that ended in a 39-35 loss, at Buffalo High School. "Defensively, we were really, really good. We nearly executed our defensive game plan to perfection. We defended against one of the better point guards in 3A, in Kaydin Davis, I thought we did a good job of closing out on her and not giving her any good looks. Offensively, for th...

  • Jan 27, 2018

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    Public Notice Hearing Dietz Daycare Exemption Hearing...  Website