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  • Cow dung patties selling like hot cakes online in India 

    Dec 30, 2015

    NEW DELHI (AP) — Like consumers around the globe, Indians are flocking to the online marketplace in droves these days. But there’s one unusual item flying off the virtual shelves: Online retailers say cow dung patties are selling like hot cakes. The patties — cow poop mixed with hay and dried in the sun, made mainly by women in rural areas and used to fuel fires — have long been available in India’s villages. But online retailers including Amazon and eBay are now reaching out to the country’s ever-increasing urban population, feeding int...

  • Class action lawsuit filed against TCT

    Karla Pomeroy, Editor|Dec 30, 2015

    WORLAND — Almost a year after the sale of the TCT, a class action suit against TCT has been filed on behalf of a former Tri-County Telephone Association board member claiming the sale of the Big Horn Basin telecommunications company was undervalued. The class action suit, seeking unspecified amount in damages, was filed in Wyoming Fifth Judicial District Court in Cody Monday. According to the complaint filed by attorneys Robert DiLorenzo of Emblem and Drake D. Hill of Cheyenne on behalf of former board member Joe Campbell and his wife B...

  • Harvey announces State Senate run

    Dec 30, 2015

    WORLAND - Worland businessman and former Washakie County commissioner Ron Harvey announced Tuesday that he will be running for the Wyoming Senate District 20. The Senate seat, which encompasses Washakie and Hot Springs counties, south Big Horn County and portions of Park County (including Meeteetse) and Fremont County (including Lysite and Shoshoni), is currently held by Gerald Geis of Worland, who announced Monday that he would not be seeking another term after serving 35 years. "I think I can...

  • WHP to post impaired drivers to social media

    Dec 30, 2015

    CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Highway Patrol will be conducting an impaired driving and traffic safety campaign over the New Year’s weekend utilizing social media. The campaign is titled #DoNotGetHashtaggedByWHP. The concept is to deter motorists from driving impaired and to practice safe driving habits over the holiday weekend by posting up-to-date WHP DUI arrests and other safety related traffic stops from around the state using the hashtag #DoNotGetHashtaggedByWHP. According to WHP Sgt. Dave Wagener of Wyoming Highway Patrol Public Relations and...

  • New tier to UW's season begins in San Diego

    Robert Gagliardi, WyoSports|Dec 30, 2015

    LARAMIE - It's not a new season, it's another tier. That's how University of Wyoming men's basketball coach Larry Shyatt described the start of Mountain West play as UW (7-6) plays at San Diego State (7-6) at 8 tonight at Viejas Arena in San Diego. Shyatt said every season he shows his players a pyramid of tiers, starting with spring workouts, followed by summer workouts, preseason workouts, preseason practice and the nonconference portion of the schedule. The next tier is conference play, and...

  • Beginning Sewing

    Dec 30, 2015

  • James H. "Bud" Foreman

    Dec 30, 2015

    Born in Anaconda, Montana to James M. and Inez (Hansen) Foreman, Jim graduated from Deer Lodge High School and then attended the Montana School of Mines (now Montana Tech), earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Mineral Engineering. There, he played on the college's basketball team and, exploiting the school's then ready access to dynamite, built a reputation for blowing to smitherines the hillside symbols and letters of competing colleges. During his junior year, he met Virginia Salzman, a...

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