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LAS VEGAS – They're welcomed, yet the University of Wyoming football team hopes they're handled better than by past squads. We're talking about expectations for the Cowboys in 2017 after winning the Mountain West's Mountain Division last season and playing in their first bowl game since 2011. UW wasn't picked to win the Mountain Division this year, but it was picked third by the media, behind Boise State and Colorado State, respectively. That's the highest UW has been picked in the MW p...
Today is Friday, July 28, the 209th day of 2017. There are 156 days left in the year. Today's Highlights in History: On July 28, 1945, a U.S. Army B-25 bomber flying in heavy fog crashed into the 79th floor of New York's Empire State Building, killing all three people in the plane and 11 people in the building. The U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a vote of 89-2. On this date: In 1540, King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed, the same day Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. In 1794,...
HAMILTON DOME — TCT’s construction crew has completed the main fiber construction portion of their Owl Creek serving area fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) project near Hamilton Dome. They are now in the process of placing drops to the residents. Running a fiber connection directly into each home will replace the traditional copper infrastructure and will provide enough bandwidth to handle the ever-increasing consumer demands for reliability and affordability. The fiber project is located about six miles west of Thermopolis and covers areas of Jon...
WORLAND – Worland resident and owner/ driver of the pulling tractor "Black Bart," Jack Miller has been pulling tractors for almost 50 years, attending pulls in Canada and California and the first tractor pull in Worland around 1970. Miller stated the first tractor pull that he went to was in Torrington, years before the first tractor pull in Worland. There he saw his first modified tractor and was hooked. He returned home and built his first single motor pulling tractor, Black Bart. "He built i...
CASPER (AP) — An examination of Wyoming’s education funding system will include looking into new ways the state can pay for K-12 schools, consultants hired by the state told lawmakers. The consultants, Denver-based Augenblick, Palaich & Associates, will study Wyoming school funding for the rest of this year and into January ahead of the legislative session in February. The firm is being paid about $500,000. Four researchers from the firm presented their plan to lawmakers Tuesday as the state tries to tackle a looming education funding def...
WORLAND – A Worland man was sentenced to 6-12 years in the Wyoming State Prison system on Wednesday for his involvement in a shooting during a failed robbery attempt in September 2016. In March, Angel L. Ramos, 18, of Worland, previously of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty to three charges including aggravated burglary, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The victim, Gilbert D. Garcia, 23, of Worland, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance (heroin). According to court records, on Sept. 27, 2016, G...
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