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Colorado Wildfire Forces Prison Evacuation
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire has forced the evacuation of more than 900 prisoners at a state prison southwest of Colorado Springs.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Adrienne Jacobson said Wednesday the prisoners from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility were taken to other prisons around the Front Range overnight
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Wyoming Military Employees Get Required Furlough Notices/ Wyo. News Briefs
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — More than 400 Wyoming Military Department employees will be required to take off 11 days without pay this summer because of federal budget cuts. Maj. Gen. Luke Reiner, Wyoming's adjutant general, said he recently sent out furlough notices to 404 civilian workers. The 11 unpaid f
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UW Trustees Approve Contract For Incoming President
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Mead’s Canada Trip Includes Visit to Port
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Study: Yellowstone Wolves Don’t Harm Elk Pregnancy
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A new study says wolves don't startle female elk that winter east of Yellowstone National Park sufficiently to make them lose weight or harm their birthing rates.
Previous researchers theorized that Yellowstone-area wolves frighten female elk into running frequently enough to reduce their ability to stay healthy and reproduce
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Hill Offers To Give Up 2 Staff Positions
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill is offering to return more than $100,000 in funding to the Wyoming Department of Education.
Hill said she intends to forego an administrative assistant and a public information officer because of a report last week that the education department's Information Management Division is struggling with staffing and other issues
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Obama, Senate Focus On Immigration/AP NewsMinute
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first votes in the full Senate on immigration overhaul are set for this afternoon to determine whether or not debate will move forward on the issue. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama is inviting law enforcement, labor and business leaders to the White House to show they support an immigration overhaul. Obama will spea
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Yellowstone Visits Up In May Despite New Count
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Trayvon Martin Case Goes To Trial/AP NewsMinute
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A second-degree murder case that's drawn worldwide attention begins in a Sanford, Fla., courtroom today. Jury selection starts in the trial of former neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who in February 2012 shot to death 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman says
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