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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A wildfire deep in the Shoshone National Forest in central Wyoming is growing larger by the day. The Alpine Lake Fire made several significant runs on Monday, forcing the evacuation of an outfitter camp yesterday morning. No one was hurt

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Firefighters are making progress containing a wildfire in Converse County that has burned more than 10 square miles. The Little Boxelder Fire, about 10 miles south of Glenrock, destroyed an abandoned structure, but homes are no longer threatened thanks to firefighter's efforts.

CASPER, Wyo.

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — A Gillette woman is voicing concern about what she considers to be the premature prison release of the drunken driver who killed her 10-year-old daughter. The Wyoming Department of Corrections informed Deanna Scalzo earlier this month that the driver has asked to be transferred from prison to a halfway house in Gillette. LaDonna Carothe

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FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) — A Wyoming soldier is among three troops killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense yesterday said 45-year-old Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin J. Griffin of Lara

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RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — A third fire in as many months at Wyoming's Sinclair oil refinery has sent a worker to the hospital. It is the seventh worker injury in the string of fires. The fire was extinguished quickly and the contract worker wasn't seriously hurt. Sinclair Vice P

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is telling federal regulators that the state should take the lead in regulating regional haze. Mead recently wrote to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency commenting on the federal agency's disapproval of part of a state plan to address air pollution. The governor sa

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RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Firefighters are slowing the spread of a wildfire burning in south-central Wyoming's Carbon County. The fire is about 30 miles northeast of Rawlins. It has burned about 8,800 acres and was 63 percent contained yesterday. Fire managers s

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site in Laramie is attracting more tourists. During the month of June, the one-time home of Butch Cassidy saw 2,000 more visitors than a year before. Site superinten

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A national study rates Wyoming's election procedures as fairly strong. The report was released last week by the Verified Voting Foundation, the Rutgers Law School Constitutional Litigation Clinic and Common Cause. The Wyoming Tri

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A University of Wyoming history professor is dropping his bid to run as an independent for U.S. Senate. Phil Roberts tells the Casper Star-Tribune that he wasn't getting enough support from Republicans to make a successful bid for the office and feared his candidacy would hand victory to incumbent Republican John Barrasso.

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