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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Northern Arapaho Tribe is asking a federal judge to reconsider a recent ruling upholding a decision that keeps the tribe from killing bald eagles for religious purposes on its central Wyoming reservation. The U.S. Fish a

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GLENROCK, Wyo. (AP) — No transmitter signals have been detected in Utah from a missing plane from Gillette, Wyo. The plane disappeared from radar on Sunday, shortly after refueling in Fillmore, Utah. The Associated

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge will hear arguments today in a lawsuit against the University of Wyoming and Colorado State University, which are seeking to sell a ranch donated to the schools in 1997. The schools say

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RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Carbon County authorities say a man was killed when he apparently fell from a train that was passing through Rawlins. The Rawlins Times reports sheriff's deputies found the man, whose name has not been released, at about 6 a.m. last Monday.

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The owner of five Casper radio stations faces a federal labor lawsuit over employee pay. The Casper Star-Tribune reports that Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting was sued by the U.S. Department of

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PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — Another day of searching has failed to find any trace of a small plane that disappeared over rugged terrain in western Wyoming. The Sublette County Sheriff's Office says 63-year-old pilot Myles McGinnis of LaBarge, Wyo., was the only o

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CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Casper is welcoming home a soldier wounded in Afghanistan. Schoolchildren, veterans and members of the Patriot Guard Riders Motorcycle Club greeted Spc. Colton Sasser after he arrived at Natrona County International Airport yesterday afternoon. Sasser was seve

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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials say hunters have killed 96 wolves so far in the 2012-2013 hunting season. Idaho Fish and Game officials tell the Coeur d'Alene Press that through Thursday 16 wolves have been killed in Idaho's Panhandle wolf zones since the season opened Aug. 30. Also on Thu

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Environmental groups are asking a judge in Cheyenne to expand the scope of a lawsuit they've filed against the U.S. Forest Service over coal mining in northeast Wyoming. The groups are asking that their lawsuit over plans to mine 400 million tons of coal from the Thunder Basin National Grassland be expanded to include a separate proposal to mine another tract also located next to Peabody Energy's North Antelope Rochelle Mine

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's effort to make its public school students better prepared for college and careers may take longer than originally hoped. Members of the Wyoming Board of Education told a panel of lawmakers yesterday that districts and the state lack the ability to meet the established timeline to implement the state's new education reform law. Paige Fenton Hu

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