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Private landowners are reaping billions of dollars in royalties each year from the boom in natural gas drilling, transforming some lives even as the windfall provides only a modest boost to the broader economy.

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A District Court Judge in Albany County ruled Wednesday, that the University of Wyoming must release the names of finalists in the search for a new University President.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is renewing his call for Congress to end tax breaks to oil companies.

In a Rose Garden speech today, Obama will urge Congress to vote to end what the White House calls "the billions in taxpayer dollars handed out to oil companies every year."

The address

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Troopers have identified the two women killed in a head-on collision on U.S. 30 near Kemmerer. The Wyoming Highway Patrol said yesterday that 60-year-old Verna Prater of Kemmerer was driving west when her car hit a mile marker post Friday afternoon. The vehicle cro

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Board of Medicine has reinstated the license of a Cody doctor the board suspended in January following the death of a Montana man after a back operation. The Powell Trib

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BAY AREA QUAKE

NEW: Magnitude-4.0 quake shakes San Francisco Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Some people in the San Francisco Bay area were awakened by an earthquake, though there have been no damage reports.

A U.S. Geological Survey comp

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Mitt Romney has won a nonbinding vote of Republican activists who turned out for precinct caucuses across Wyoming during the past two weeks. The former Massachusetts governor was the favorite of 39 percent of the 2,108 caucus goers, while former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum f

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal appeals court has denied an appeal from a Wyoming county that lost a voting rights challenge. A 2010 ruling overturned Fremont County's system of at-large voting for county commissioners after American Indians sued, claiming it diluted the Indian vote.

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