Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has known for at least two decades about failures to give military criminal history information to the FBI, including the type the Air Force didn’t report about the accused Texas church killer who assaulted his then-wife and stepson while serving as an enlisted airman. The Air Force lapse in the Devin P. Kelley case, which is now under review by the Pentagon’s inspector general, made it possible for him to buy guns before the murderous attack Sunday at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Twenty-six peopl...
WORLAND – In preparation for the upcoming Wyoming State Drama Competition Nov. 30 – Dec. 2 in Casper, Worland High School drama club members will be performing their entries for the community at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday evening in the Worland High School Little Theater. "I'm taking 50 [students] to state. We have to do technical events, we have to do acting, we have to do singing; just a variety of stuff," Worland High School drama coach Rick Dorn said. Last year the Worland Drama Club earned...
WORLAND — The Worland City Council is requesting a change in the speed limit at the east end of the city, wanting to move the current 45 mph speed zone farther east to the east side of Road 11. City Attorney Kent Richins told the council at Tuesday’s regular meeting that he drafted a letter to the Wyoming Department of Transportation following discussions about the speed limit during department head meetings over the past few months. Engineer Mike Donnell of the city engineering firm Donnell & Allred said, “As we’ve discussed over the last coup...
WORLAND – Washakie County Commissioners held a public budget hearing Tuesday to amend the annual budget to include a $259,000 Firewise grant, obtained by the county. A federal program to aid county fire wardens with wildland fire mitigation, the grant also provides educational resources for homeowners in other than urban areas, easily threatened by wildland fires. County Commissioner Aaron Anderson explains that the grant enables the county save money on the front end, when faced with the possibility of a heavy fire danger to homes off the g...
BASIN – Former Basin Town Treasurer and Clerk Danielle Chapman was arrested Monday on two counts of taking unauthorized control or transfer of property that did not belong to her, and one count of violation of official duties, in the case of more than $98,000 of missing funds from both the Town of Basin and the Basin Area Chamber of Commerce. In a warrant issued on Nov. 6 by the Fifth Judicial District, Big Horn County, Chapman is named in the alleged unauthorized transfer of $20,410.78 from the Basin Chamber of Commerce between April 18, 2...
CHEYENNE (AP) — A legislative panel tasked with finding ways to raise revenue for the cash-strapped state is considering a new tax to pay for Wyoming’s efforts to promote tourism. The Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee is drafting a bill that would impose a 1 percent tax on purchases at hotels, restaurants, bars and other leisure and hospitality establishments around the state. It’s estimated the tax would raise more than $17 million annually. Most of the money from the tax would fund the state Tourism Office, which promotes Wyoming...
LARAMIE - University of Wyoming researchers studied inbred domestic ferrets and determined the mammals have low genetic diversity on a global scale, according to a paper recently published in Evolutionary Applications. This type of domestication can result in only a few individuals contributing to the gene pool of the domestic species, followed by a further reduction in genetic diversity when animals are bred for human-desired traits. Without genetic diversity, animals are at risk of genetic...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks slipped Tuesday as smaller companies and banks took their worst losses in a few months. With stock indexes near record highs, investors moved some money into big-dividend stocks like real estate companies. Banks and other financial companies have been climbing over the last two months, but Tuesday they skidded as interest rates moved lower. Small, domestically-focused companies had their worst day since mid-August as House Republicans began making changes to their tax bill. Their Senate counterparts are expected to i...
Pete Allen Kuhn went to be with the Lord October 31, 2017. Born on April 17, 1957 to David and Bette "Pinky" Kuhn in Las Vegas, Nevada. He graduated from Valley High School in 1975 and attended the University of Nevada-Reno (UNR) on a football scholarship. Pete married Sharon Raegen March 1979, who preceded him in death April 1979. In March of 1980 Pete married Alexis Gorman, adopting her son Chris Kuhn, and together they had a child Kyle Kuhn. Later in life he was married to Holly Ann Kuhn on S... Full story
Archie Lewis Harvard, 97, died in Casper, Wyoming November 5, 2017 following a brief illness. Archie was born December, 31, 1919 to Mildred Bader and Lewis Archie Harvard on his father's homestead south of Ten Sleep, Wyoming. When he was six years old he and his brother moved to the state of Washington. He returned to Ten Sleep when he was 13 and lived with his grandmother on the Nowood. He graduated from the Spring Creek School and worked for ranchers in the area. He was inducted into the U.S.... Full story
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