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  • Twenty Worland students part of Wyoming All State Marching Band

    Tracie Mitchell, Staff Writer|Dec 31, 2015

    WORLAND – The Worland members of the Wyoming All State Marching Band will be in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, Calif. Friday. This will be their 13th time as a band and the trip will be planned around the parade, according to Executive Band Director Dan Holroyd. Holroyd said, "This will be an excellent opportunity for our Wyoming students to represent our state in the most prestigious parade in the world. Many outstanding bands from around the country applied to participate in t...

  • Judge questions ban on open lands data collection 

    Dec 31, 2015

    CHEYENNE (AP) — A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit contesting two new Wyoming laws barring people from gathering information about agriculture and other industries on private and public lands. U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl in Casper made the ruling Monday after questioning the constitutionality of the laws. The Wyoming Legislature passed the two similar laws earlier this year. The measures specifically prohibit the taking of photos or gathering of other data while trespassing on open land. A coalition of environmental, animal...

  • Fast food dispute lands couple in hospital

    Dec 31, 2015

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say a husband and wife’s fight over a chicken dinner landed them both in the hospital. Richland County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Curtis Wilson says the wife wanted to get chicken at Church’s and the couple got into an argument that ended with the husband knocking her out with a punch Tuesday night. He said when the woman came to, she grabbed a knife and stabbed her husband multiple times in the upper body. Wilson said Wednesday that both were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injurie...

  • Hoops Practice

    Dec 31, 2015

  • Eagles CEO says coach following Kelly needs people skills

    Dec 31, 2015

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The next Eagles coach better have some people skills. A day after firing Chip Kelly, CEO Jeffrey Lurie made it clear he wants a coach who can relate to his players and everyone else in the building. “You’ve got to open your heart to players and everybody you want to achieve peak performance,” Lurie said Wednesday. “I would call it a style of leadership that values information and all of the resources that are provided and at the same time values emotional intelligence. I think in today’s world, a combination of all those fac...

  • Joan Bartels

    Dec 31, 2015

    Joan M. Bartels, 86, of Rifle, Colo., died Dec. 27, 2015, at Larchwood Inns. A Celebration of Life will be at 11 a.m. at Callahan-Edfest Mortuary Chapel in Grand Junction, Colo.... Full story

  • Ruth Evelyn Quadro

    Dec 31, 2015

    Ruth Evelyn Quadro, 90, died Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at her daughter’s, Jessie Shumway, residence in Hot Springs County. Funeral services will be Monday, Jan. 4, 2015, 10:30 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Thermopolis. Mortimore Funeral Home is assisting the family.... Full story