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WORLAND - A Burlington Northern-Santa Fe driver escaped without injury when his trailer with a loader broke loose from his truck on U.S. Highway 20 south of Worland Tuesday. According to Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Elliott Vandenberg, Travis White, 34, of Worland, was driving a BNSF railroad truck with trailer hauling a loader northbound on U.S. 20. The "weld broke on the truck, the trailer came unhitched and then the trailer ran into the (Gooseberry Creek) bridge, flipped over and went into...
WORLAND — The couple who arrived first on the scene of the fatal crash in May 2014 that took the life of a Thermopolis woman, testified Tuesday in the case of the State of Wyoming versus Cody Shinost of Thermopolis. Shinost is charged with aggravated vehicular homicide for the death of Madisen A. Price. According to the initial Wyoming Highway Patrol report, Price, 21, of Thermopolis was killed when the vehicle she was in left the roadway and rolled two times at 9:50 p.m. on May 14, 2014. The crash occurred approximately 15 miles north of T...
CHEYENNE (AP) — Hopes for Wyoming voters to consider medical marijuana went up in smoke as organizers fell thousands of signatures short of getting the question on the 2016 ballot. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports that the Wyoming chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws confirmed Monday that they didn’t get the necessary 25,600 signatures needed. Instead they gathered just over 7,000 signatures. Signatures are due on Feb. 8 for a question to be on the general election ballot....
WORLAND – The award-winning Women’s Expo will be this weekend with organizers promising it to be bigger and better. According to University of Wyoming Extension Northwest Area Nutrition and Food Safety Educator Phyllis Lewis last year the Women’s Expo received first place from WEAFCS (WY Extension Association Family and Consumer Sciences) for the state of Wyoming. “This year the Women’s Expo is going to be bigger and better,” Lewis said. The community angel banquet dinner will kick start the event at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Worland Community Ce...
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Hundreds of southeastern Mississippi citizens received jury summons that incorrectly instructed them to call a sex hotline. Multiple news outlets report that at least 350 jury summons with the incorrect phone number were sent out in Jackson County to potential jurors. Circuit Clerk Randy Carney says people started calling the circuit clerk’s office Monday morning to report the problem. Others stopped by in person to address the issue. Carney says he doesn’t know what caused the mix-up. He has drafted an apology lette...
LARAMIE - The symmetry of what's happened to the University of Wyoming Cowgirls basketball program is both telling and not unexpected. Wyoming went 7-3 in the first 10 games of the season and 3-7 over its last 10. The difference? Having 5-foot-9 senior Jordan Kelley as opposed to not. Or as UW coach Joe Legerski might say, having your glue player in the lineup and not. With Kelley, the Cowgirls were positioning themselves to be one of the top three or four teams in the Mountain West. Without...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was hospitalized Tuesday with a back injury and Stewart-Haas Racing said the team was unsure of the extent of his injuries just a week before he is expected in Daytona to prepare for his final season in Sprint Cup. The 44-year-old Stewart was injured Sunday during an accident while he was riding an all-terrain vehicle somewhere on the West Coast, SHR spokesman Mike Arning told The Associated Press. He was being evaluated at an undisclosed hospital and able to move all e...
Oyer C. Morgan passed away at Saint Peters Hospital on January 29, 2016. Oyer was born on February 4, 1928 to Helen and Noel Morgan in Worland, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five siblings. He attended Worland schools, graduating from Washakie County High School 1946. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1949 that included a tour of duty in Hawaii while it was still a territory. He achieved the rank of Sergeant. On discharge, Oyer attended Asbury University, located in Wilmore... Full story
Kathyrn “Kathy” Louise Jones, 74, died Sunday, January 31, 2016 at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital after a period of declining health. Born April 7, 1941 in Thermopolis, she was the daughter of Rowland and Anne (Kowlok) Jones. Graduating high school in 1959 she acquired her BA from the University of Wyoming. For two years she taught in Rock Springs then taught 30 years at Dean Morgan Junior High in Casper as a PE teacher. Kathy returned to Thermopolis in 1998 to care for her mother. She was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church. As a y... Full story
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