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PUBLIC NOTICE: 2019 Washakie County Delinquent Tax Notice... 
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Cheyenne man found guilty of second-degree murder CHEYENNE (WNE) – A seven-man, five-woman Laramie County jury found a Cheyenne man guilty Thursday of second-degree murder for fatally shooting another man after an argument over a marijuana pipe. Charles “Charlie” Richmond, 78, was convicted of shooting John Paul “J.P.” Birgenheier three times with a shotgun after a Dec. 5, 2018, argument outside a home on Belaire Avenue. Richmond was originally charged with first-degree murder. During witness testimony, Laramie County assistant district...
GILLETTE — Patrick Johnson and his father Buck were out on a lake fishing when they got the news that their employer, Blackjewel LLC, had filed for bankruptcy. Hours later, as they were sitting and talking, they got a call from a coworker saying the company’s employees had been sent home from the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr mines. Patrick had been working at Eagle Butte mine for a month, but Buck had spent 18 years at Belle Ayr. “It definitely put a damper on the camping trip for a little bit,” Patrick said. “But life goes on. You just got to mo...
EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY - Worland Public Transportation to Cody. 347-3208. SECOND MONDAY OF EACH MONTH – Worland Acoustic Jam: 6:30 pm. at the Worland Senior Center. EVERY TUESDAY - Community Garden Activity, 10 a.m. Community Garden at Newell Sargent Park in Worland. FIRST and THIRD TUESDAY of EACH MONTH - Worland City Council meeting: 7 p.m. at city hall. FIRST AND THIRD TUESDAY of EACH MONTH - The Washakie County Commissioners meeting: Commissioners' room in the courthouse start at...
SHERIDAN — After his retirement, Matt Redle, former Sheridan County prosecuting attorney, was featured in an episode of the television series “True Convictions.” Hosted by former Brooklyn homicide prosecutor Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi, “True Convictions” takes a look at some of the toughest cases from across the country. The case featured on the show involved the kidnapping and murder of a young Sheridan woman in the mid-1990s. “From a prosecutor’s perspective the case had a lot of legal elements that were interesting to me,” Nicolazzi said...
CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Revenue Interim Committee has a bill on its plate that would allow cities to put an additional municipal sales tax to voters. But instead of voting on the bill, the committee hit pause this week to allow cities and counties a chance to work through major difference on the bill and find a compromise that could pass through the Legislature. Representatives from the Wyoming Association of Municipalities and the Wyoming County Commissioners Association said they are set to meet this month to try to wor...
Wyoming legislative leadership voted by email Monday to explore temporarily storing spent nuclear fuel rods in the state, a prospect one senator says could bring in $1 billion a year. A legislative committee has appointed six of its members to investigate the idea with the U.S. Department of Energy, Sen. Jim Anderson (R-Casper) told WyoFile on Friday. Anderson is co-chairman of the Joint Minerals Business and Economic Development Committee which received approval and funding from the Legislative Management Council in an unannounced vote to...
CASPER — As coal operator Blackjewel LLC went to battle in bankruptcy court last week, another Powder River Basin company quietly contended with its own financial troubles. Cloud Peak Energy filed for bankruptcy in May and is one of six coal companies enmeshed in bankruptcy proceedings in Wyoming. The coal operator owns three mines — Antelope and Cordero Rojo in Wyoming and Spring Creek in Montana — and owes $400 million in outstanding debt. Even so, the company reportedly hired a number of workers from the closed Blackjewel mines. In the l...
Cheyenne refinery sued by AG CHEYENNE (WNE) — The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office is suing HollyFrontier Cheyenne Refining LLC for a second time in the past two years for environmental violations. The court case, filed July 2 in Laramie County District Court on behalf of the people of Wyoming, alleges the company is violating the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act, the Wyoming Air Quality Standards and Regulations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act. The first lawsuit, filed in February 2018, alleged similar viola...
JACKSON — Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, has dismissed most claims that William Frey brought against several Teton County agencies. But the court is giving Frey until Aug. 5 to file amended complaints for the court to reconsider his case. Frey was trying to sue the town of Jackson, Teton County and Jackson Hole Airport for an interaction he had on March 12, 2018, while going through airport security. Frey refused “an invasive pat down search of his genitals” and said he was unlawfully arres...
An Albany County District Court judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Wyoming to present for her private review contested documents regarding former university President Laurie Nichols, who was demoted without explanation. Judge Tori Kricken on July 16, ordered UW’s lawyers to provide “documents to the Court” by Aug. 15 for her review, along with further legal arguments as to why the records should be kept secret. She set a hearing for Oct. 8. The order is the latest development in a public records lawsuit filed by WyoFile, Lee Publi...
Two killed in Grand Teton Park accident JACKSON (WNE) — Two people were killed and five others are fighting for their lives after a head-on collision Tuesday afternoon in Grand Teton National Park. Police said Craig Edward Aubuchon, 65, was driving a minivan southbound on Highway 89 Tuesday afternoon when he veered into oncoming traffic. “For reasons unknown he drifted into the northbound lane and a Nissan Xterra collided with it head-on, center to center,” Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Matt Brackin said. Aubuchon, of Town and Country, Misso...
CASPER — Government lawyers on Monday outlined the arguments they will use in asking the Wyoming Supreme Court to reverse a Natrona County judge’s decision — made on the basis of a new self-defense law — to dismiss a first-degree murder case against a Casper man. The filing is the latest in a case expected to clarify a broadly expanded self-defense law under which a judge dismissed the case against Jason John, the Casper man who last summer from inside his trailer shot and killed another man. The law, passed by state legislators in 2018, p...
CHEYENNE - "It was the biggest and most destructive thing I've ever seen. And I've been to Vietnam. I thought I had seen it all." Those were the words of Carl Lowery, a member of Wyoming Search and Rescue, in the July 17, 1979, edition of the Wyoming Eagle, describing the most destructive tornado in Wyoming's history, which hit Cheyenne 40 years ago. The Eagle was a predecessor of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. In the mid-afternoon hours of July 16, 1979, an F3 tornado touched down and traveled...
Body of missing man found in Snake River JACKSON (WNE) — A boater found the body of Averin Scott in the Snake River on Sunday evening, 10 days after he was reported missing and about 25 miles south of where police think he fell in. “We just want to thank everyone,” Scott’s sister Avalina Cisco said Monday, “from the sheriffs and the searchers and also victim services and everyone who has been out searching and just taking longer walks to look for him.” Scott, 21, disappeared from his house on S. Highway 89 late on July 3. Besides his shoe fo...