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  • Wyoming places three on first team All-MW squad

    WyoSports Staff, WyoSports|Dec 1, 2017

    Wyoming places three on first team All-MW squad By WyoSports staff LARAMIE – Three University of Wyoming football players – all on defense – were named first team All-Mountain West on Wednesday. Junior safety Andrew Wingard earned first team honors for the second consecutive season. Joining him were sophomore defensive tackle Youhanna Ghaifan and junior defensive end Carl Granderson. UW sophomore middle linebacker Logan Wilson of Casper and senior cornerback Rico Gafford earned second team...

  • Dow Jones industrials breach 24,000 in broad market rally

    Dec 1, 2017

    NEW YORK (AP) —Investors are exuberant and for good reason: the global economy is strong, corporate earnings are solid, Washington appears closer to delivering lower taxes on corporations and is signaling less restrictive oversight of the financial sector. Thanks to that enthusiasm, Wall Street finished November with a broad rally that gave the Dow Jones industrial average its biggest gain since March and pushed it past the 24,000 mark for the first time. Other market indicators also reached milestones on Thursday. The Standard & Poor’s 500...

  • Utah fire uncovered man's weapons cache, survival bunkers

    Dec 1, 2017

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A massive wildfire in southern Utah this summer uncovered scattered underground bunkers stocked with guns, grenades and food that were illegally built in the wilderness, authorities said Thursday. The Iron County Sheriff’s Office did not identify the builder of the bunkers or his motivation. The sheriff’s office said in a statement that it has been investigating since the late June fire, and prosecutors will consider filing criminal charges against the man because the bunkers were illegally constructed on government land....

  • The Red Bank verdict is in

    Cyd Lass, Staff Intern|Dec 1, 2017

    Museum visitors 'convict' salesman of 106-year-old double murder in Red Bank, Wyoming WORLAND -This summer the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center opened the temporary exhibit, Ghost Towns and Tales of Our Forgotten Past, to try and answer the 106-year-old question: Who killed Thomas and Edna Jenkins? The exhibit was open from early June to late October. It highlighted several of the state's ghost towns including Kirwin, Arland, Gebo, the Medicine Wheel and Lost Cabin. But the main thing to...

  • Parade of Lights Saturday evening

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Dec 1, 2017

    WORLAND – Many people enjoy driving around the streets of town in the evening looking at all the houses decorated with Christmas lights. Saturday evening instead of driving around people are encouraged to view the annual Parade of Lights, a Worland tradition, which begins at 6 p.m. and runs from 20th street to Railway Avenue with floats decorated by businesses, organizations, individuals, clubs and churches. Traditionally the Parade of Lights was on Black Friday every year, but the number of floats in 2015, 10, caused the Worland-Ten Sleep C...

  • Thermopolis School Visit

    Dec 1, 2017