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  • Additional Information Released on I-80 crashes

    Mar 5, 2020

    Troopers release further information on crash involving multiple vehicles from Sunday, March 1, 2020. CHEYENNE — Troopers have learned roughly thirty vehicles collided on the westbound side of Interstate 80 around milepost 184. This crash consisted mostly of commercial vehicles. Secondary crashes involving around twenty-five vehicles occurred in front of this crash and within the stopped traffic. Three fatalities were confirmed from crashes on the westbound side of the Interstate. One of the fatalities was a passenger in a Toyota Highlander s...

  • Cowboys Face Second Seed Utah State in Semifinals on Friday - University of Wyoming Athletics

    Mar 5, 2020

    LAS VEGAS, Nev. (MARCH 6, 2020) – The Wyoming Cowboys continue their 2020 Air Force Reserve MW Basketball Championship run on Friday, March 6 at 9:30 p.m. (MT) against No. 2 Utah State in the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The semifinal matchup will be on CBS Sports Network with Rich Waltz on play-by-play and Dan Dickau on color. Fans can watch and listen to the contest as well as follow stats on GoWyo.com. The contest will be broadcast live on radio over the 26 affiliate stations of the C...

  • Wyoming News Briefs for Friday

    Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 5, 2020

    Yellowstone visitors asked to review pictures for signs of mother, children JACKSON (WNE) — People who visited Yellowstone National Park on Sept. 8, 2019 are being asked to look through their pictures and videos to see if they have any images of two missing children or their mother, to help with a case that has garnered national attention. The FBI and Rexburg, Idaho, Police Department are asking the public for help in the investigation into the disappearance of Tylee Ryan, 17, and Joshua (JJ) Vallow, 7. Lori Vallow, who was arrested in Hawaii l...

  • Transgender worries threaten female genital mutilation ban

    Andrew Graham, WyoFile.com|Mar 5, 2020

    Concerns in the Wyoming Senate over gender reassignment surgeries threaten an effort to criminalize female genital mutilation that soared through the House. Protecting girls and women from FGM has widespread bipartisan backing among lawmakers. Legislating transgender medical care does not. And a clause in the bill dealing with sex reassignment surgery now threatens to drive a wedge between disparate groups that agree they want to ban a violation of women’s rights. The bill passed through the Senate, Labor, Health and Social Services C...

  • Peabody lays off 50 temporary workers

    Greg Johnson, Gillette News Record Via Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 5, 2020

    GILLETTE — Peabody Energy Corp. has laid off about 50 workers from its flagship North Antelope Rochelle coal mine in southern Campbell County. The move impacts temporary workers at the world’s most productive open-pit coal mine and represents a reduction in workforce of 4% from the 1,242 employed at the mine at the end of 2019, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. Peabody confirmed the layoffs in a statement to the News Record on Thursday afternoon, saying the layoffs represent an adjustment to lower Powder River Bas...

  • School nurse, staff save life of 10-year-old Sheridan girl

    Kristen Czaban, The Sheridan Press Via Wyoming News Exchange|Mar 5, 2020

    SHERIDAN - On Monday, Shawn Kelley received the call parents dread. His 10-year-old daughter had collapsed walking into Woodland Park Elementary. When Kelley arrived at the school, staff held blankets around his daughter to protect her privacy as they performed chest compressions and utilized an automated external defibrillator. "When you show up at the school and see that - it's the hardest thing any parent would ever have to see," Kelley said. By the time he got there, his daughter, Emerson, h...

  • Lady Warriors come up short at regionals

    Mar 5, 2020

    LYMAN — The Worland Lady Warriors basketball season ended Saturday morning with a 60-48 to the Lander Lady Tigers in the consolation semifinals of the 3A West regional tournament in Lyman. This is the second season in a row that the Lady Warriors have missed the state tournament. Read more about the Lady Warriors regional tournament in the March 12th edition of the Northern Wyoming News....

  • Wyoming News Briefs

    Mar 5, 2020

    Missing woman’s death ruled accidental RIVERTON — Acute methamphetamine intoxication and hypothermia were pronounced culprits in the death of 23-year-old Jade Wagon. Wagon went missing Jan. 2 and was found dead three weeks later, in a field near Ethete. “The examination revealed no evidence of significant traumatic injuries,” stated a Thursday press release by the FBI describing the results of the Jan. 27 autopsy. “The methamphetamine levels in Ms. Wagon’s body are known to produce confusion and irrational behavior. Based on the investigati...