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PINEDALE – Preparing to vote on legislation that would enact a corporate income tax in Wyoming, the Joint Committee on Revenue on Thursday found itself missing two members and with two choices to make. There was the option to advance an imperfect bill to its next meeting and work out its blemishes there, or to vote on the bill as it was, leaving it to its creator, Rep. Jerry Obermueller, R-Casper, to work out the kinks in time for the 2020 budget session in January. They chose the latter, passing the controversial piece of legislation by a 9...
CHEYENNE – A Cheyenne man charged in a fatal shooting earlier this week was released from custody five days earlier because prosecutors declined to move forward with a pending case of misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor possession of methamphetamine. Andrew Weaver, 25, had his initial appearance on the newest charges Thursday afternoon in Laramie County Circuit Court. He faces two counts of second-degree murder, one count of attempted second-degree murder, and two counts of aggravated assault and battery with bodily injury with a weapon. After be...
First Wyoming case of vaping-related illness confirmed in Uinta County EVANSTON (WNE) – The first case of vaping-associated lung illness in Wyoming has been confirmed in a Uinta County resident, according to a press release issued by the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). The release states the young adult was hospitalized with severe lung disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as of Thursday, Sept. 19, there were 530 confirmed cases of vaping-associated lung disease spread across the country in 38 states and the U.S. V...
Riverton police kill man after knife attack RIVERTON (WNE) — A Riverton Police Department officer shot a man to death Saturday afternoon outside Walmart after the man attacked the officer with a knife, eyewitnesses said. The shooting happened on the sidewalk outside the south entrance to the store on North Federal Boulevard, adjacent to a temporary hamburger stand that was being operated at the store by Riverton's Veterans Hall group for a Saturday fundraiser. The RDP officer was not injured. The knife appeared to have struck the officer on p...
CASPER — The Trump administration forged ahead on its 2017 promise to rollback regulations under the Clean Water Act this month, stripping away a rule that expanded federal protections to smaller streams and wetlands. The announcement was met with cheers from Wyoming farmers and ranchers who considered the 2015 rules cumbersome to economic development. The Obama-era rule, known as the Waters of the United States rule, or WOTUS, broadened the types of water that fall under the federal Clean Water Act. Placing stricter regulatory requirements o...
Yellowstone Airport sets records through summer CODY — Yellowstone Regional Airport is entering its slower winter season with great momentum from the previous summer. For the respective months June through August, the airport set records for total boarded passengers. In August, YRA beat the August 2016 record by 201 passengers and in July accounted for even higher passenger totals, with 6,521 compared to the previous high of 5,962 passengers in July 2016. In June, YRA enplaned 4,979 passengers compared to the previous high of 4,907 in June 2018...
CASPER — A University of Wyoming football player is facing felony charges after allegedly pointing an unloaded handgun at two people during an incident last week. Allen Smith III, a freshman defensive back, was booked into the Albany County Detention Center on Friday on two counts of aggravated assault and battery with the threat to use a drawn deadly weapon, according to the jail log. He had his initial appearance in Albany County Circuit Court later that day. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 15, according to court d...
RIVERTON — The Fremont County Coroner’s Office will hold a public inquest into the officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of Anderson Antelope, 58, of Riverton, on Saturday at Walmart. Officials said the Riverton Police Department officer who shot Antelope was not injured, despite being “stabbed… in the center of the chest” with a six-inch knife, according to a Monday statement from Fremont County Attorney Patrick LeBrun. LeBrun said the knife failed to penetrate the officer’s body armor. Antelope then “continued the assault,...
Riverton man arrested in 36-year-old ‘cold case’ RIVERTON (WNE) — A Riverton man was indicted Friday for a murder that occurred 36 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Willie Moore, 61, appeared in Lander Circuit Court Monday morning to face his extradition. Erlene Gayle Lee, 58, of Texas, also was arrested on Friday. After hearing the charge of first-degree murder from Circuit Court Judge Robert B. Denhardt, Moore said, “I didn’t have nothing to do with that.” According to the Tulsa Police Department cold case file, on Sept. 18, 1983, Anthony Bal...
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