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Meg Lanker-Simons Has Previous Conviction

AP — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:22:12 +0000

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A Laramie woman accused of posting an anonymous Facebook threat against herself has a previous conviction involving a 2005 gun-waving incident.

Court records show Meg Lanker-Simons pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in May 2006 and was sentenced to six years of probation

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UW Crushes Admin Speaks Out

Trevor T. Trujillo — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:30:32 +0000

An exclusive interview with the anonymous administrator of the controversial UW Crushes Facebook page. He discusses the site, the controversy, and his opinion on Meg Lanker-Simons

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Meg Lanker-Simons Cited For Making UW Crushes Post

Trevor T. Trujillo — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:52:42 +0000

University of Wyoming Police have issued a citation to Meg Lanker-Simons for a charge of interference. According to the citation "Subject admitted to making a controversial post on UW Crushes webpage and then lied about not doing it."

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Anti-Rape Culture Demonstration Mounted at UW [VIDEO]

Trevor T. Trujillo — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:02:42 +0000

Chants, signs and speeches took center stage at the University of Wyoming campus Monday morning during a demonstration against rape culture.

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UW Crushes Page Removed From Facebook

Trevor T. Trujillo — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:26:32 +0000

A Facebook page that recently came under fire in Laramie appears to have been removed from Facebook.

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Facebook Page Sparks UW Controversy

Trevor T. Trujillo — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:10:16 +0000

A Facebook page called UW Crushes has come under fire after a harshly worded statment was posted on the page about a University of Wyoming Student.

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U.S. Marshals in Wyo. Turn to Facebook to Help Catch Fugitives

Trevor T. Trujillo — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:56:04 +0000

The Wyoming offices of the U.S. Marshals' Department have recently taken to facebook in an attempt to spread the word about fugitives in the Wyoming area.

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Facebook Poll

Ian Delap — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:45:28 +0000

Facebook is the largest social networking site in the world. It is also one of the largest breeding grounds for scams and hoaxes.

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Facebook Group Organizes Fire Shelter For Horses

Associated Press — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:33:50 +0000

With wildfires raging in Colorado, volunteers in Wyoming have offered to make room for displaced horses on their ranches.

The Facebook group "Horse Evacuations East" has garnered support on its event page title "Colorado Fires - Available Temporary Horse Shelter

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Stocks Gain On Wall St.; Facebook Falls

Associated Press — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:26:32 +0000

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rising, shaking off their worst weekly performance since November, as investors latched on to a relatively optimistic report from economists.

The Dow Jones industrial average is up 78 points to 12,448 after six days of losses

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Wear Green To Support Agriculture April 18th

Brian Scott — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:18:12 +0000

The local agriculture community asks everyone to sport a green shirt, April 18, for the third annual “Wear Green To Support Agriculture Day!” Wear green to work or school and strike up a conversation with consumers about the importance of agriculture in their daily lives.

The event details are available on Facebook where the creators, Bar

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Senator Kit Jennings Takes Exception To Casper Star Article

Brian Scott — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:55:03 +0000

In the Sunday, February 19 edition of the Casper Star Tribune, Senator Kit Jennings was put "under a microscope" by political writer Jeremy Pelzer. This morning Senator Kit Jennings responded on his Facebook page.

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Facebook Quiz

Tom McCarthy — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:39:59 +0000

How well do you know Facebook?

Dad Has A Facebook Lesson For Teenage Daughter [VIDEO]

Brian Scott — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:25:34 +0000

Anybody with kids, and especially teenagers, knows the frustrations of trying to teach a lesson after an act of misbehavior. This dad was blocked from his daughters Facebook page but still found out about her rants

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Facebook Spat Sparks Murder

Associated Press — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:36:04 +0000

MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged with killing the couple.

Johnson County Sheriff Mike Reece said Wednesday the victims had complained to police that Marvin's Potter's daughter was harassing them after they deleted her as a friend on the social networking site

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Facebook Going Public

Associated Press — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:18:24 +0000

Facebook made a much-anticipated status update Wednesday: The Internet social network is going public.

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Santa Tracker Goes High Tech [VIDEO]

Brian Scott — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:05:57 +0000

For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight.

The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement for children to call Santa misprinted the

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Trick or Treat? Spot Scary Social Media Scams

JP — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:28:28 +0000

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are unquestionably popular, but the Better Business Bureau warns that users may be the target of social media scammers.

Many people view their online personas as separate from their real-life ones and don’t take the same precautions to protect their identities, their computers or their money

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Facebook Announces New Timeline Feature for Profiles [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:41:13 +0000

Despite the whining about the launch of their “top stories” feature this week, Facebook unveiled and even bigger change at the company’s F8 developer conference in San Francisco: Timeline.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that profile pages will soon automatically put photos, videos, status updates and status changes in chronological order. The timeline will also feature a “way back” section, which allows users to insert material from their pre-Facebook days.

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Breaking Down Facebook Changes, More Coming Soon

Brian Scott — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:33:58 +0000

If you have been spending much time on your favorite, or least favorite, social networking site and have noticed more than a few changes you are not alone.

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