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  • Lady Pioneers grinding through 'the process'

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Feb 1, 2018

    TEN SLEEP - Trusting the process can be difficult, especially when it does not equate to wins, and for the Ten Sleep Lady Pioneers girls basketball team they are keeping their heads down, working hard and looking for anyway to snag a W. The senior-less Lady Pioneers (6-7 overall, 0-4 1A Northwest) suffered a pair of defeats last week, losing to conference foe the No. 4-ranked St. Stephens 46-35 and to Arvada-Clearmont 24-19. Against St. Stephens (11-2, 3-0), the Lady Pioneers stuck with Lady...

  • Riverside students shine in academic contests

    Feb 1, 2018

    BASIN — Riverside Academic Challenge is in the midst of its season with several meets coming up in Cheyenne, Torrington and Billings. The team has been on a roll this year finishing in the top three spots in all of its competitions so far, according to Coach Stuart DesRosier. Most recently the team won the Big Horn Basin Knowledge Bowl held Friday, Jan. 19, in Lovell edging out the Greybull team 122 to 117. The Saturday before that the team came in third in the Northwest College meet behind two Cheyenne East teams (Cheyenne East High School s...

  • Clinton regrets not firing adviser accused of harassment

    Feb 1, 2018

    NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton says she should not have let a senior campaign adviser keep his job after a female staffer accused him of sexual harassment in 2007. “The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women,” Clinton wrote on Facebook Tuesday night . “So I very much understand the question I’m being asked as to why I let an employee on my 2008 campaign keep his job despite his inappropriate workplace behavior. The short answer is this: If I had it to do again, I wouldn’t.” Clinton said that senior campaign staf...

  • Wyoming legislative panel rejects tax proposals

    Feb 1, 2018

    CHEYENNE (AP) — A Wyoming legislative committee has rejected all the tax proposals it was considering to bolster the state’s sagging revenues. The Joint Revenue Committee actually voted on only one of the five tax bills on the agenda Wednesday. After a proposed bill to impose a 1 percent tax on purchases at leisure and hospitality establishments around the state failed on a 6-6 vote, the committee declined to even consider four other proposals. Those proposals included raising the state sales tax to fund school construction and maintenance and...

  • TCT lawsuit continues in Cody court

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Feb 1, 2018

    CODY — District Court Judge Norman E. Young, from the Ninth Judicial District, heard continued arguments in the case Campbell versus Tri-County Telephone Association in Cody on Monday, primarily concerned with a motion for Partial Summary Judgement filed on behalf of the plaintiff. The lawsuit, filed in December 2016 by a former board member of TCT, claims that the original, 2014 sale of the telecommunications company was undervalued and defrauded approximately 825 members of the Tri-County Telephone Cooperative. BACKGROUND The suit, filed b...

  • Ready for change

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Feb 1, 2018

    WORLAND — More than 30 people form multiple organizations came together in a meeting Jan. 18 as part of a new coalition to join efforts to combat substance abuse in the Worland area. The Washakie Prevention Coalition is seeking input and grant funding to address substance abuse with the youth, but also the entire community. Lila Jolley of Washakie County Prevention Organization, said that there has always been a prevention coalition and that Washakie County Attorney’s Office Victims Witness Coordinator Bob Vines approached the coalition abo...

  • Running For A Cause

    Feb 1, 2018

  • After a stumble, US stocks finish slightly higher

    ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer|Feb 1, 2018

    U.S. stocks overcame a brief stumble to close slightly higher Wednesday, snapping a two-day losing streak. The dip came after the Federal Reserve released its latest statement on interest rate policy and the economy, in which the central bank signaled that it expects inflation to pick up this year. The Fed, as expected, held off on raising interest rates. Stocks bounced back in the last hour of trading, with gains by technology companies outweighing losses in health care and other sectors. The latest batch of strong earnings from big...