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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — New groundwater sampling data from the U.S. Geological Survey hasn't changed the minds of environmentalists and the petroleum industry about any damage done by hydraulic fracturing to the groundwater in Wyoming. The Natural Res

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Both sides of the debate over whether hydraulic fracturing has contaminated groundwater in Wyoming say they need more time to analyze the results of testing done by the U.S. Geological Su

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Top Wyoming officials say congressional action to block about $700 million in federal Abandoned Mine Land payments to the state over the next 10 years could be devastating to the state budget. Gov. Matt Mead

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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A wildfire that for a time was threatening the town of Jackson has now been all but fully contained and firefighters are packing up some of their equipment. The Horsethief Canyon Fire has burned more than five square miles of forest south of Jackson since it started on Sept. 8. Investigator

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DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Officials in northeastern Minnesota are mourning a Duluth pathologist and deputy St. Louis County medical examiner who died in a plane crash in Wyoming. Dr. Donald Kundel was flying to Wyoming for a hunting trip with his son when his single-engine homebuilt RV-7A plane crashed at the Laramie airport Friday. The Duluth News

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Montana man acquitted of a Wyoming murder charge earlier this year has filed a federal lawsuit against three former Sublette County investigators. Troy Willoughby was acquitted after the Sublette County Attorney's Office announced that a possibly exculpatory police report was never disclosed to Willoughby's attorneys at his first trial.

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PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — Firefighters are making progress against a 400-acre wildfire threating 13 homes in western Wyoming. The 400-acre Chall Creek Fire was 20 percent contained Wednesday. It ignited Sund

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Olympic gold medal wrestler Rulon Gardner has filed for bankruptcy, saying he was the victim of a fraudulent real estate deal. Gardner disputes a $3 million debt, saying he was defrauded by a business associate into co-signing a loan to develop a hot-spring resort in his hometown of Afton, Wyo

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A coroner has

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Casper man who was convicted of beating a woman with a hammer in 2009 has been sentenced to another three months in jail after testing positive for methamphetamine. The Casper Star

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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife officials say hunters in Teton County have been fast to grab their wolf tags. Teton County had 91 licenses sold between midnight and 3:30 p.m. Friday. The Jackson Hole News and Guide reports that the state's first legal wolf hunt begins Oct. 1 a half hour b

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