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  • Lady Pioneers built for the future

    Alex Kuhn, Sports Editor|Mar 24, 2017

    TEN SLEEP - Starting the 2016-2017 basketball season one of the big picture goals for Ten Sleep Lady Pioneer basketball coach Sarah Novak was to change the program's culture into a winning one. While this season had its ups and downs the cornerstone for that change was set. The Lady Pioneers finished third in the 1A Northwest conference with a 4-4 record and were 10-10 overall. Finishing .500 was not the goal of coach Novak, who was named the 1A Northwest Conference coach of the year, but she...

  • South Big Horn Hospital under investigation by DEA

    Marcus Huff, Staff Writer|Mar 24, 2017

    BASIN – South Big Horn Hospital District Board of Trustees Chairman Todd Denny revealed Wednesday evening that the district is currently under investigation by both the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration for undisclosed reasons, following an internal investigation which began earlier this year. Citing “serious public safety issues” the board began cooperating with law enforcement in February. After the resignation of several prominent staff members, public concern reached a peak on Feb. 22, when...

  • State board to consider emergency relief for beet growers March 30

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Mar 24, 2017

    WORLAND – Due to heavy rain last fall when sugar beet growers were trying to harvest their crops and the frosty conditions of late December, the Wyoming Sugar Company is requesting an economic emergency declaration and $5,675,650 in loans from the Wyoming Business Council board of directors. A special call-in meeting is to be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 30. "The loans would be for the Wyoming Sugar Company growers. With all the rain in the fall, the beets came in muddy. They were p...

  • Winter ozone problem returns to western Wyoming gas fields

    Mar 24, 2017

    CHEYENNE (AP) — Itchy eyes and scratchy throats blamed on high levels of wintertime ozone have returned to western Wyoming's gas patch for the first time in six years, and so too has finger-pointing over who's responsible for fouling the air. The ozone results from atmospheric chemical reactions that occur in just the right mix of cold temperatures, sunlight, snow on the ground and air pollution. The Upper Green River Basin is home to two of the largest onshore U.S. gas fields, the Jonah Field and Pinedale Anticline operated by Jonah Energy, Q...

  • White veteran charged with murder of black man as hate crime

    Mar 24, 2017

    NEW YORK (AP) — A white Army veteran accused of randomly killing a black man on the streets of New York by stabbing him with a sword was charged Thursday with murder as a hate crime. "His intent was to kill as many black men here in New York as he could," prosecutor Joan Illuzzi said as James Harris Jackson, 28, was arraigned in the slaying of 66-year-old Timothy Caughman. "The defendant was motivated purely by hatred." Authorities said Jackson traveled from his home in Baltimore last week, picking New York because he hoped to "make a s...

  • Mar 24, 2017

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