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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Thomas Bleming lost in his bid to unseat U.S. Sen. John Barrasso in the Aug. 21 Republican primary by a landslide, but he has won a local party post by a coin flip. Someone had wri

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Two Laramie police officers involved in the shooting and wounding of a 26-year-old man earlier this month have been cleared to return to work. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation's preliminary findings of the Aug. 15 incident det

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A magazine says the University of Wyoming is one of the top institutions in the country when it comes to outdoor adventures. Outside magazine published an article on its online edition on Aug. 14, ranking UW

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A district judge has set a competency hearing for next month for a Wheatland man accused of killing his three sons and his brother in a shooting rampage last summer. Everett Conant

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — An incumbent Wyoming state representative blames his loss in Tuesday's primary election on his opposition to a failed bill that would have prohibited Wyoming from recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states. Cody Republican

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. Sen. John Barrasso easily defeated two minor opponents in yesterday's Wyoming Republican primary and will face Democrat Tim Chesnut, an Albany County commissioner from Laramie, in November. Barrasso beat T

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — As polls open today for Wyoming's primary, many residents will be picking up new party ballots. Natrona County Clerk Renea Vitto tells the Casper Star-Tribune that she's seeing a lot of people who registered as Democrats for the 2008 presidential election switch back to the Republican party. Only Republican

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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A network of bike and pedestrian paths now allows people to travel from Jackson to Jenny Lake in northwest Wyoming without ever using a road. Among those participating in a ride marking the opening of the entire pathway were the parents of a 13-year-old girl hit and killed by a car on the road near Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park in 1999. Her father, Dav

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Incumbent Wyoming Republicans Sen. John Barrasso and Rep. Cynthia Lummis have raised about $4 million between the two of them for their re-election campaigns so far. Meanwhile, the

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The City of Cheyenne is stepping up police supervision of the homeless. Cheyenne officials want to reduce the number of homeless people arrested for public drunkenness. Cheyenne Police

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