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  • Warriors ready for 3A East Conference

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Feb 2, 2018

    WORLAND - Months of hard work is about to pay off for the Worland Warrior boys swimming team, The grueling practices are behind them now, it's about bringing home some medals as they prepare for the 3A East boys swimming conference meet in Buffalo today and tomorrow. Last week the Warriors put in their hardest workout of the year and traveled to Gillette for the Gillette Invite. Having a small team and competing against 15 other schools, 11 of which were 4A programs, WHS head coach Jeff Bishop...

  • US stocks head mostly lower as early gains fade

    ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer|Feb 2, 2018

    The major U.S. stock indexes closed mostly lower Thursday after a midday gain faded by late afternoon. Retailers, restaurant chains and other consumer-focused companies accounted for much of the market’s pullback. The losses outweighed solid gains by financial stocks, which got a boost as climbing bond yields set the stage for higher interest rates on mortgages and other loans. Even though January was the best month for the stock market since March 2016, the swift rise in the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which is a benchmark for interest...

  • Middle school musicians perform at Showalter Music Festival Feb. 10

    Feb 2, 2018

    POWELL — Outstanding performers from the Showalter Memorial Music Festival present a free concert at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, in the Nelson Performing Arts Center Auditorium at Northwest College in Powell. The festival is named in memory of Victor Showalter, a former music professor at NWC, who started the tradition in 1975. Now in its 44th year, the festival has expanded to include brass, woodwind, percussion, guitar, violin, piano and voice students in grades five through eight. This year’s clinicians are Don Christman, Carisa French, Mor...

  • Charges dropped against Ten Sleep canyon shooter

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Feb 2, 2018

    WORLAND – Attempted second degree murder charges have been dropped in the case of a 2013 shooting in Ten Sleep Canyon, previously admitted to by former Worland resident Jesus Y. Deniz, currently serving a life sentence in Montana for a 2015 double murder. As previously reported in the Northern Wyoming Daily News, during the early morning hours of Sept. 16, 2013, emergency room staff at Washakie Medical Center in Worland notified law enforcement that gunshot victim Jose Luis Mosquera Araujo, of Ecuador, had visited the ER. Araujo and g...

  • South Big Horn hospital board divided

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Feb 2, 2018

    BASIN – South Big Horn County Hospital Board Chair Jeff Grant addressed a petition that requests the immediate resignation of board members Grant, Sue Antley and Mitch Shelhamer. Grant addressed the pitition at the board’s regular meeting Wednesday. Board member Margie Triplett and two community members also issued their own statements. The petition circulating online and in paper form states: “We, the undersigned, being electors of the board of Directors of the South Big Horn County Hospital District Board hereby petition that the follo...

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