Archive - May 2009 - News

The Wyoming Rehab Wild West Hoop Jam had a small change of venue this year but certainly not less participation. The teams registered Friday night and Saturday was near perfect weather for the 3 on 3 tournament. While temperatures climbed into the 80’s and the asphalt began to heat up… so did the players.

The first ever Sheridan Scratch and Sniff day at Kendrick Park was a huge success. The day started off with a five or ten kilometer run followed by events like the agility course and bobbing for hot dogs.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - A Casper veterinarian has confirmed that a dozen horses that died in a pasture west of the city last month were killed by botulism. Dr. George Marble says three horses were dead on April 10 when

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - A former day care worker at Campbell County Memorial Hospital entered a no contest plea to a charge that he molested a child at the day care. Shawn A. Hart, 22, entered his plea Thursday to a charge of taking immodest, immoral or indecent liberties with a child. Two other molestation charges were dropped. The children involved were all under the age of 6.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Wyoming will receive more than $3.1 million in stimulus money to boost five regional drug enforcement teams.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - The Department of Transportation says the state is expanding its vehicle insurance verification system. Beginning Monday, state troopers will automatically get insurance information on vehicles every time they make a stop. The insurance verification system, which began last July 1, had primarily been used in crash investigations.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A high-profile initiative to spare a small number of Yellowstone bison from slaughter has been delayed until at least this fall, after a Wyoming Indian reservation reversed its plan to take the animals.

(AP) - Forty-seven people have been indicted on federal charges in connection with a drug-trafficking ring that distributed drugs in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota.

(AP) - The Wyoming Department of Health says it has confirmed seven more swine flu infections in Laramie County, bringing the total number of Wyoming cases to nine. The department announced Friday that the seven new cases include five children and two adults.

The U.S. Agriculture Secretary has called for a "time out" for road less National Forest areas. The directive puts a stop to new development and logging on more than 50 million acres nationwide, and more than three million acres in Wyoming - including land in the Bighorn, Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests.