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UW Reports Fewer Rapes, More Drug Arrests For 2011

Associated Press — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:41:33 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming Police Department is creating a full-time crime prevention officer.

UW Police Chief Mike Samp says the idea is to free up other police officers to focus their efforts on law enforcement on the Laramie campus

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Gasoline More Costly Than A Year Ago

Associated Press — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:28:32 +0000

The average price of gasoline is now higher than it was a year ago for the first time since late April.

The national average for retail gasoline was $3.662 per gallon Thursday, a penny higher than it was on this date in 2011

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Wyoming Students' Scores On NAEP Exam Rise In 2011

Associated Press — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:12:35 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming students improved their scores on an eighth-grade national science exam from 2009 to 2011.

Wyoming students had an average score of 160 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress science test in 2011, compared to 158 in 2009

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Wyoming Exports Boom In 2011

Associated Press — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:59:26 +0000

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming exports shot up by nearly a quarter last year thanks to stronger soda ash sales and expanded sales of uranium, liquefied natural gas, bentonite and industrial equipment and parts

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Obama Tax Return For 2011

Associated Press — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:20:34 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama and his family paid more than $160,000 in federal taxes last year.

The president's 2011 federal income tax return shows reported adjusted gross income of about $790,000 last year

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2011 Cheyenne Frontier Days Attracts 252,000

Associated Press — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:53:26 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Last year's Cheyenne Frontier Days attracted more than 252,000 people to its rodeo, night concerts and carnival.

Rodeo attendance increased slightly from 2010 to nearly 81,900

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UW Spring Enrollment Up From 2011

Associated Press — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:39:44 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Preliminary figures show the University of Wyoming has enrolled 12,839 students this spring, an increase of more than 130 over last spring.

The spring enrollment figures at the state's only four-year university don't include many outreach students who are still enrolling

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Eurozone Unemployment Ends 2011 At Record High

Associated Press — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:26:04 +0000

LONDON (AP) — Unemployment across the 17 countries that use the euro ended 2011 at a record high of one person in every 10, official figures showed Tuesday, a day after EU leaders acknowledged they would have to boost economic growth with the same urgency that they had shown in combating their nations' debts

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New-Home Purchases Fall, 2011 Worst Ever For Sales

Associated Press — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:11:51 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer people bought new homes in December, making 2011 the worst sales year on record.

The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000

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Campbell County Coal Production Dips In 2011

Associated Press — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:37:20 +0000

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — Mines in Campbell County produced slightly less coal in 2011 than in 2010.

According to figures released by the federal government, Campbell County mines produced 426.4 million short tons of coal last year

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Game & Fish Program Inspects 43,000 Boats In 2011

Associated Press — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:00:11 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A program to keep disruptive nonnative species out of Wyoming's waterways inspected nearly 43,000 boats at 32 different water areas in the state last year.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department finished its second year with the Aquatic Invasive Species Program in 2011

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Fremont Co. Has Worst Year On Record For Homicide

Associated Press — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:31:08 +0000

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — Fremont County just had its worst year on record for homicides.

The county had 23 homicides in 2011, up from nine in 2010 and the previous high of 14 each in 2008 and 2009

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Casper's Weather Summary For 2011

Bruce Dougherty — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:55:49 +0000

Here's a look at Casper's Weather for 2011. as recorded at the Casper/Natrona County International Airport. This is provided by the National Weather Service in Riverton.

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IRS: Charitable IRA Distributions End in 2011 [AUDIO]

Daniel Sandoval — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:15:54 +0000

For retirees thinking about taxes and the new year, there's a charity distribution benefit that expires this year.

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Oil Price To End 2011 Near $100 A Barrel

Associated Press — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:02:24 +0000

NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil will finish 2011 about 8 percent higher, after concerns about tighter global supplies dominated energy markets throughout the year.

Benchmark crude, which on Friday fell 30 cents to $99

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In a Year Of Cataclysms, A Few Faces Stand Out

Associated Press — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:12:19 +0000

Seismic jolts shook 2011 — uprisings that set a whole region afire, natural disasters of historic destructiveness, the demise of icons. But again and again amid these world-changing convulsions, the mirror of a single face, or two or three, joyous, tormented, panicked or hopeful, brought the larger-than-life moments back to human scale

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Many Kinds Of Best-Sellers In 2011

Associated Press — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:49:05 +0000

NEW YORK (AP) — There were many kinds of best-sellers in 2011 and they sold in different ways.

Some were meant for success, such as Walter Isaacson's "Steve Jobs" or Tina Fey's "Bossypants" or Stephen King's "11/22/63

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Refuge And Grand Teton Elk hunt Down From 2010

Associated Press — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:30:53 +0000

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Abundant forage and fewer hunting permits resulted in a lower elk harvest on the National Elk Refuge and in Grand Teton National Park this fall.

Refuge managers estimate that hunters killed about 100 elk this year, compared with 242 animals last year

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K2 Radio's Top 10 Stories of 2011

Tom McCarthy — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:33:39 +0000

From Osama Bin Laden to local prostitution stings, it seems like we've covered just about everything over the last twelve months. Take a few minutes and check out our ten most viewed stories from 2011.

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Virginia Tech Locks Down After Officer, 1 Other Killed

Associated Press — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:37:38 +0000

Virginia Tech officials said a police officer and another person were shot and killed on the school's campus Thursday and the university locked down the campus, where 33 people died in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U

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