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Bill requiring work for Medicaid heads to House CHEYENNE (WNE) — A bill to place work requirements on certain recipients of Medicaid in Wyoming made its way to the House floor Thursday. Senate File 144, sponsored by Sen. Larry Hicks, R-Baggs, would require able-bodied Medicaid recipients between the ages of 19 and 64 to put in 20 hours a week through a combination of work, schooling, workforce training or volunteering with a local nonprofit. The bill passed out of the House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee on Thursday morning on a 5-...
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming didn't need a perfect game to beat UNLV on Tuesday at the Arena-Auditorium. Unfortunately for the Cowboys, they were anything but perfect. UW shot just 26.9 percent from the 3-point line and committed 19 turnovers during a 66-56 loss to the Rebels. UNLV (15-11, 9-5 Mountain West) won for the fourth time in its last five games to remain in fifth place in the league standings. The Cowboys (6-20, 2-11) lost for the sixth time in seven games. UW senior Justin J...
The Hot Spring County High School Bobcats won the 2A West regional wrestling meet over the weekend scoring 186 points and having two regional champions in 113-pound Austin Ireland and 220-pound Logan Cole. Sticking with Hot Springs County High School, the Bobcats basketball team picked up their first win against a 3A opponent, since rejoining 3A in 2016, Saturday night, with a 61-55 home win over the Worland Warriors. Unfortunately, for the Lady Bobcats, they were unable to pick up the win losing to the Worland Lady Warriors 51-41. Worland...
REYBULL (WNE) — An explosion that destroyed a mobile home and injured one of its adult occupants was likely caused by a natural gas leak, according to Greybull Fire Chief Bill Scott. Greybull firefighters and police officers responded to the mobile home at 1325 N. Seventh Street at 8:52 p.m. Saturday following a report of an explosion and a fire. The mobile home sits right behind the Wheels Motel, on property owned by Daniel T. Rice. According to the Greybull Police Department, the first officers on scene detected a strong odor of natural gas c...
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GILLETTE (WNE) — A Campbell County man whose cellphone was seized last summer as evidence for a suspected hunting crime now faces additional criminal charges after the same phone had images of a woman showering. Clifton Kennedy, 61, pleaded not guilty Feb. 1 to two felony counts of voyeurism. Kennedy and a woman were investigated in June for allegedly killing big game animals out of season and for trespassing on private property. He reportedly admitted to Wyoming Game and Fish investigators that photos of the illegally killed animals had been t...
CHEYENNE – In an overwhelming floor vote, the state House of Representatives killed a school security bill Friday because of what some called an unfunded, and unneeded, mandate on schools. Senate File 64, sponsored in the interim session by the Joint Education Commit-tee, died on its first vote in the House on a 43-13 vote. The bill was passed out of the Senate 19-11 last month and received unanimous support from the House Education Committee this past week. The bill would have required the Wyoming Department of Education, in collaboration with... Full story
CHEYENNE - The effort to end the death penalty in Wyoming was unable to get past conservative opposition Thursday in the state Senate. House Bill 145, sponsored by Rep. Jared Olsen, R-Cheyenne, was defeated on its first reading in the Senate on an 18-12 vote. Only the day before, the bill had passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 5-0 vote. One of the Senate co-sponsors, Sen. Brian Boner, R-Douglas, laid out the arguments for HB 145 during a floor debate Thursday, focusing on the...
CHEYENNE — In the past five weeks, the Wyoming Legislature has examined a property tax, a tax on wind energy, and taxes on hotel rooms, cigarettes and vape products. None of those taxes, however, have attracted the attention or scrutiny that House Bill 220 – or the National Retail Fairness Act – has managed to draw. After rushing through the House of Representatives, the effort to introduce Wyoming’s first corporate income tax has garnered the wrath of a cadre of foes, including lobbyists for multi-million dollar companies and Washington D.C. t...
RIVERTON (WNE) — Officials have confirmed that a Dubois student was arrested last week for making terroristic threats toward the local school. Officials with the Fremont County Sheriff's Office said they were notified Monday afternoon about the alleged threat. Deputies contacted the student at home Tuesday evening after notifying district administrators about the issue, according to a statement Thursday. The FCSO worked with Fremont County School District 2, the student's family and mental health services to "further evaluate the validity of t... Full story
CASPER — There have been roughly 15 reports of sexual battery in Natrona County’s high and middle schools over the past two weeks as part of a “game” where male students challenge each other to inappropriately touch their female peers, officials told the Star-Tribune on Monday. “Fairly confident that I can say that all the (Casper middle and high) schools have been affected by it, to one degree or another,” Casper Police Sgt. Scott Jones said. Jones said the “game” involves males singling out female students and daring each other to touch... Full story
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WORLAND - They say the seven words that lead to the death of a church are "We have always done it that way." The message to WESTI Ag Days attendees Tuesday was similar in relation to family-run farms and ranches. Motivational speaker and agriculture strategist Andy Junkin of Agriculture Strategy in Iowa spoke to a large crowd at the opening session of the two-day agriculture event at the Worland Community Center Complex. Junkin opened his keynote address describing a scenario of a distraught far...
LARAMIE – The University of Wyoming men's basketball team found out first hand why Nevada is the No. 7-ranked team in the country. UW didn't have many defensive answers, and couldn't generate nearly enough offense in an 82-49 loss in front of 5,287 at the Arena-Auditorium on Saturday night. UW fell to 6-19 overall and 2-10 in the MW. It was the Cowboys most lopsided loss of the season, and third time in conference play they lost by 30 or more points. UW had a season-low in points, shot a season-... Full story
WORLAND – One hundred years ago, on Feb. 19, 1919, Claire Lais was born to Joseph and Ida Boyd in Campbell County near Savageton. She joined five half-siblings and two full blood siblings, during a blizzard, with temperatures below zero and the snow piling up. "I was born on a ranch out here in a sheep herders shack, probably a 10 X 12 sheepherder's shack. The snow was over the top of the fences and dad went to get a midwife to have me delivered," Lais said. Her daughter Pat Wiseman added, "... Full story
WORLAND – On Wednesday, Feb. 6, Shopko announced the closure of an additional 139 Shopko and Shopko Hometown stores including the store in Worland. The closures that came after the first closure announcements in December included the store in Greybull. Last month, on Jan. 16, Shopko, a leading operator of general merchandise stores throughout the Central, Western and Pacific Northwest regions of the U.S., announced that it, along with its subsidiaries, had filed voluntary petitions for a court-supervised financial restructuring under Chapter 1...
I have developed over the years a willingness to try new things. Now, that said, there are my favorites and there are things I just won’t eat, like broccoli. My husband and I have talked about this and some of our dislike of foods come from our childhood. He was made to clean up his plate, whether he liked the food or not. We were too, to a degree, we at least had to try it. His least favorite food — tomatoes — of any shape or size, unless it comes very pureed in sauces like ketchup, but no chunks or slices. I’m not a tomato fan but over th...
WORLAND – Worland High School’s speech and debate team will be holding their 36th annual Worlando Beach Tournament this Friday and Saturday. The meet will include 17 schools, mostly from Western Wyoming. There will be 200-300 students competing at the tournament. The meet will be at the high school Friday from 1 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Worland’s speech and debate team will not be competing. Instead, the students will be working to run the meet by assigning judges, picking up ballots, preparing and serving food, answe... Full story
WORLAND – Valentine’s Day is something often seen has as a love holiday that’s more often than not only promoted by the greeting card industry. However, angel babies and boxes of chocolates seem to only work as a mask to hide the true, much darker history of the holiday. Some know of Saint Valentine with the Roman-Catholic Church. However, it’s lesser known that there are at least three different saints who go by Valentine or Valentinus. Many legends lead to belief, however, that at least o... Full story
MEETEETSE - Ninety teams braved the cold Saturday and Sunday on the Sunshine Reservoirs for the annual Meeteetse Ice Fishing Derby with a Powell team bringing home top prize. Teams could be one, two or three members. They had to submit a total of six fish caught any time during the two-day derby. Saturday fishing was in the upper reservoir and Sunday was in the Lower Sunshine. Results for the team placings are as follows: First place went to a Powell team of Don Adams, Milford Hanson Jr. and...
WORLAND - The 3A East regional wrestling tournament is underway Friday and Saturday in Rawlins at Rawlins High School and as the defending 3A East champions the Worland Warriors have the opportunity to retain their crown. Defending their 3A East title is a goal for the Warriors but more importantly, they want to start the tournament with a sense of urgency. The regular season is in the rearview mirror and with only two weeks remaining in the wrestling season, the time to swing for the fences is... Full story
THERMOPOLIS - The Hot Springs County High School wrestling team capped their final week of the regular season with impressive dual performances against 3A No. 4-ranked Worland High School and Glenrock High School. The Bobcats lost 40-30 to the Worland Warriors on Feb. 7 at Worland High School lost to the Glenrock Herders 48-36 at Glenrock on Feb. 8. Against the Warriors, HSCHS wrestling coach Travis McDermott was very impressed with his team's effort. Even though they lost to the Warriors, the... Full story
TEN SLEEP - This season has been a struggle for the Ten Sleep High School boys basketball team, with only two seniors on the roster and the rest underclassmen they have taken their game in and game out. But last week the switch might have flipped for this team. The Pioneers started the week scoring a season-high 60 points to beat the Dubois Rams 60-57 in Dubois on Feb. 8. Following that game they bested their 60-point mark scoring 78 in a 99-78 home loss to the St. Stephens Eagles. Now as odd... Full story
Public Notice Washakie County Commissioners... PDF