K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For May 12th, 2017 – Evening

 
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming will lay off 37 employees next week as the state's only public, four-year university cuts costs to account for reduced state aid.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmentalists notched a rare win in the Republican-led Senate as a GOP effort to reverse an Obama-era rule restricting harmful methane emissions unexpectedly failed.

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by eight this week to 885.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Casper police have arrested two Colorado men after both showed officers their separate stashes of marijuana in their motel rooms.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming judge has sentenced a man to six to eight years in prison for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A wolf advocacy group has doubled the reward for information leading to whoever shot a rare white wolf found inside Yellowstone National Park.