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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 two Democrats perhaps most likely to face Barrasso and Lummis in November's general election said yesterday they've raised about $17,000 collectively...
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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 Chief Brian Kozak says the effort will focus on better coordination between police, the courts and a private shelter to try to give homeless people more incentive to get treatment...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 Laramie was killed alongside 38-year-old Air Force Maj...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 superintendent Deborah Amend tells the Laramie Boomerang that extended hours is one reason more people are visiting the site...

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