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Big-time players have big-time games to defeat big-time teams. Josh Allen is looking to do just that Saturday. It isn't that the University of Wyoming junior quarterback hasn't played well in previous big games. Allen's efforts last season were vital in the Cowboys winning the Mountain Division of the Mountain West and playing in their first bowl game since 2011. However, Saturday's home game against Oregon is a different beast. It will be the third team from a Power 5 conference Allen has gone...
NEW YORK (AP) — It was a split decision on Wall Street on Thursday as gains in a handful of industrial and health care companies largely outweighed sluggishness elsewhere in the market, including the technology sector. Sizable gains by Boeing and United Technology were enough to push the Dow Jones industrial average to another record, but other major indexes fell. Retailers were also weak after the government said prices paid by consumers jumped in August. That could prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates sooner than expected in o...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After a report concluding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rehired former employees that had been fired, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., and Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C., called on Congress to restrict the federal agency from rehiring personnel without considering their misconduct. In July, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration published an audit report that showed the IRS rehired more than 200 former employees between January 2015 and March 2016 that it had previously terminated or suspended while the a...
PINEDALE (AP) — Authorities say they have uncovered a marijuana growing operation at an organic farm in southwest Wyoming. The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office says state and local police searched the farm on Aug. 25 on a warrant after receiving information about marijuana being grown at the site. The office says officers confiscated about 50 pounds (22.7 kilograms) of processed marijuana, about 300 marijuana plants and more than $63,000. The search resulted in felony drug charges against three individuals....
WORLAND — Children’s Resource Center is sponsoring the Children’s Health Fair for the fourth consecutive year. This year’s fair will be Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Worland Community Center Complex. Kim Accurso, family service coordinator/counselor of Worland’s CRC said, “The main goal of the Children’s Health Fair is to promote healthy child development within our community and to inform parents of the many wonderful resources we have in the community that are all working toward that goal of helping children reach their fullest poten...
WORLAND – The Washakie County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene of an emergency aircraft landing on Tuesday, located in the Enduro oil fields east of Worland. A Cessna C 182, registered to Meridian Flying Services of Sidney, Mont., was forced to land in the area after the aircraft ran out of fuel while conducting pipeline monitoring operations, according to Washakie County Sheriff Steve Rakness. According to an initial incident report by the Federal Aviation Administration, Casper, the pilot suffered no injury, although the aircraft exe...
WORLAND - Looking back to the start of Hurricane Harvey on Friday, Aug. 25, RJ Christensen said this week that he would not have evacuated any earlier than he did because he would not have had the chance to help his neighbors during the flood, as well as after the flood. Christensen and his family evacuated on Monday, Aug. 28, from their Houston, Texas, home in Oak Hills Village. There had been no mandatory evacuation order and history for the neighborhood showed that it had not flooded. The nei...
Richard Merle Sheesley, 84, passed away at St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Montana on Sept. 13. Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at Zion Lutheran Church. Bryant Funeral Home is assisting the family with the arrangements.... Full story
Effective Friday, Sept. 15, fire restrictions are lifted on all public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Cody, Lander and Worland field offices within Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Park and Washakie counties. “Due to cooler temperatures and increased moisture, fire danger has decreased across the district, allowing us to lift fire restrictions,” said Aaron Thompson, BLM Wind River/Bighorn Basin District assistant fire management officer. “But please remember as you’re out recreating and hunting on public lands to never l...
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