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Don't you love it when the game lives up to the hype? The year 2016 produced plenty of games like that - contests in which the action was the best when everything was on the line. The Cubs and Indians, the Warriors and Cavs, the Tar Heels and Wildcats all saved their best for when it was win or go home. A look at some of the best games of 2016: END OF THE CURSE You wanted drama? Well, leave it to the Cubs to give you drama . After trailing 3 games to 1 to Cleveland in the World Series, the Cubs...
(AP) It’s been a tumultuous 2016 — both financially and politically. The year may have left some people wondering, what’s next? And, how will it affect me? Lacking a crystal ball, we asked a few economic experts what they think 2017 may hold in store for Americans’ personal finances. Here’s their take on what to expect in the year ahead: Q. What’s the job market going to look like? A. “The job market in 2017 will be about as good as it gets,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “There are currently a record number of jo...
BASALT, Colo. (AP) — Firefighters in the western Colorado town of Basalt say they’ve rescued cats from trees before, but this time they saved a drone that a 9-year-old boy had just received for Christmas. The Aspen Times reports firefighters used a ladder truck to extract the drone on Monday after gusty winds pushed it into the branches. Family members had tried knocking it loose with a football, and somebody tried climbing the tree, but nothing worked. The boy’s grandmother then called police for ideas. Police called a fire station, and since...
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have detained a Tunisian man they think may have been involved in last week’s truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. The 40-year-old, who wasn’t identified, was detained in Berlin during a search of his home and business, federal prosecutors said. The man’s telephone number was saved in the cellphone of Anis Amri, a fellow Tunisian believed to have driven a truck into the market on Dec. 19. Amri, 24, was killed in a shootout with Italian police in a suburb of Milan early Friday....
DENVER (AP) — The older brother of JonBenet Ramsey is suing CBS and others for $750 million over a series that concluded he killed his sister. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Burke Ramsey claims that the network, its production company and the experts interviewed in the series on the unsolved murder permanently ruined his reputation. The six-part series aired in September ahead of the 20th anniversary of JonBenet’s death. The 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, the day after Christmas in 1996....
MEETEETSE — A Wyoming Department of Transportation plow truck was hit by a pickup and driver at high speed Sunday afternoon on slick roads south of Meeteetse on Wyoming 120. The rear-end crash occurred as WYDOT heavy equipment operator Bob Crum was driving north and turning the plow truck into the WYDOT shop south of Meeteetse. Crum said weather conditions were clear, with no wind or falling snow at the time of the crash. “There was one big crash. Visibility was good,” Crum said. “The driver of the pickup told authorities she never saw the plo...
WORLAND – Despite the internet, large retail stores and unemployment, local businesses for the most part report an increase in sales this holiday season compared to last holiday season. “This holiday season was awesome, definitely up from last year, although it came down to the wire with a lot of people shopping last minute,” Larsen’s Bicycles of Worland owner Lisa Weamer said. “I don’t know what influences people but being open, available and stocked with good merchandise paid off,” she added. Storyteller of Thermopolis owner Ellen Reed ag...
Lifelong Worland area farmer Conrad Albert Lass passed into the presence of his Heavenly Father on December 26, 2016 at age 89. He was born at home on a farm north of Worland on August 29, 1927, to Conrad Sr. and Katherine (Lehman) Lass. Con attended school at Durkee and the old Emmett Building before graduating from Washakie County High School in 1945. While in high school he was an all-conference football player, was in FFA, and was in the school band. After graduating from high school, Con me...
October 5, 1931 – December 12, 2016 Worland, WY…….Arlene Blakesley, age 85, of Worland, Wyoming passed away Monday, December 12, 2016 at Riverton Memorial Hospital in Riverton, Wyoming. Norma Arlene Blakesley was born October 5, 1931 in Hay Springs, Nebraska to Arthur Henry and Ethel Mae (Nicholson) Schildhauer. She moved to Greybull as a sophomore in high school where she graduated from Greybull High School. Arlene married Lee Blakesley on June 17, 1950 in Greybull, Wyoming. They moved to Worland in 1965. She worked as a waitress and worke...
Doris Irene Scott, 86, passed away Saturday, December 24, at Hot Springs County Memorial Hospital in Thermopolis. Private family services will be held this summer, 2017 Mortimore Funeral Home is assisting the family....
Adeline "Addie" Eve Toman (Stritecky) passed away on December 23rd, 2016 at Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was 94 years old. Addie was born on Christmas Eve, December 24th, 1921, to John and Clara Stritecky in Colome, SD. She was the third of five children, including three sisters and one brother. Addie helped work on the family farm in her youth and enjoyed dancing, sewing, cooking, baking, and crocheting. Later on she graduated from the 8th grade, something she was...