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  • A happy holiday upset

    Scott Nulph, WyoSports|Dec 23, 2016

    LARAMIE – University of Wyoming women's basketball coach Joe Legerski worried prior to his team's two-game road trip to end the nonconference schedule that his players may be thinking more about leaving for Christmas than finishing up the schedule. He doesn't have to worry any more. The Cowgirls took control of No. 15-ranked Colorado in the third quarter and held on for an 82-75 victory Wednesday in Boulder, Colorado. Liv Roberts scored 21 points and had career highs in both rebounds (11) and st...

  • Local teen takes first solo flight

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Dec 23, 2016

    WORLAND – Most teenagers plan on celebrating their 16th birthday by getting their driver's license. Lexi Boltz of Ten Sleep celebrated her 16th birthday by taking her first solo flight Thursday afternoon at the Worland Municipal Airport. When asked which she was more excited about, getting her driver's license or her first solo flight she stated, "The solo is more important than my driver's license." Boltz, with her flight instructor Bill Pennington watching, did all the preliminary safety check...

  • Someone pays off layaway gifts in Gillette

    Dec 23, 2016

    GILLETTE (AP) — An anonymous person has paid $4,600 to cover layaway gifts at a Walmart store in a northeast Wyoming city hit hard by a struggling oil, gas and coal industry. Gillette store co-manager Jackline Rinehardt says the secret Santa specifically picked accounts that had toys in them. Rinehardt tells the Gillette News Record that he ended up paying off between 15 and 20 layaways. She says a lot of people with kids in the community lost their jobs and didn’t know what they were going to do for Christmas....