K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For May 31st, 2017 – Morning
THE CASPER CITY COUNCIL INTENDS TO HIRE GILLETTE'S CITY ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE VACANT CITY MANAGER JOB.
TOM MAYOR KENYNE HUMPHREY SAID TUESDAY THE COUNCIL HAS TENTATIVELY OFFERED THE POSITION TO FORMER CASPER ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER CARTER NAPIER, AND HE PROBABLY WILL BEGIN THE JOB IN JULY.
THE DECISION WILL NEED FORMAL APPROVAL AT A REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
NAPIER WILL FILL THE VACANCY LEFT WHEN FORMER CITY MANAGER V.H. MCDONALD RESIGNED APRIL 6. ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER LIZ BECHER HAS BEEN SERVING IN THAT POSITION.
NAPIER WAS THE RUNNER UP TO REPLACE FORMER CITY MANAGER JOHN PATTERSON IN 2015, AND THE UNANIMOUS DECISION BY COUNCIL TO CHOOSE HIM WILL SAVE THE CITY MONEY BECAUSE IT WON'T NEED TO HIRE AN EXECUTIVE SEARCH FIRM.
NAPIER'S SALARY WILL BE $195,000.
ACCORDING TO HIS RESUME SUBMITTED TO THE CITY OF CASPER IN 2015, HE EARNED BACHELOR'S AND MASTER'S DEGREES AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, WAS ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER IN CASPER FROM 1998 TO 2003, AND THEN WAS CITY ADMINISTRATOR IN RIVERTON AND GILLETTE.
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GILLETTE, WYO. (AP) - WYOMING U.S. SEN. MIKE ENZI IS RECOVERING FROM EMERGENCY GALLBLADDER SURGERY AND A SPOKESMAN SAYS THE REPUBLICAN HOPES TO BE BACK ON THE JOB SOON.
ENZI SAYS THAT HE HAD BEEN FEELING A LITTLE BIT OFF, AND ON SUNDAY, HE FELT INCREASINGLY WORSE AND WENT TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE DOCTORS REMOVED HIS GALLBLADDER. THE SURGERY WAS PERFORMED AT CAMPBELL COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN GILLETTE.
THE 73-YEAR-OLD ENZI, A FORMER MAYOR OF GILLETTE, MISSED A SCHEDULED SPEECH MONDAY AT A GILLETTE CEMETERY.
PRESS SECRETARY MAX D'ONOFRIO SAYS ENZI REMAINED IN THE HOSPITAL TUESDAY AND HOPED TO RESUME HIS SCHEDULE WHEN CONGRESS RETURNS NEXT WEEK TO WASHINGTON FROM RECESS.
ENZI HAS BEEN A SENATOR SINCE JANUARY 1997. HE IS CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEE.
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK IS OFFERING A REWARD OF UP TO $25,000 FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOOTING DEATH OF A RARE WHITE WOLF IN APRIL.
PARK OFFICIALS BELIEVE THE WOLF WAS SHOT NEAR GARDINER, MONTANA, ON APRIL 10TH OR 11TH.
WILDLIFE MANAGERS EUTHANIZED THE 12-YEAR-OLD FEMALE WOLF AFTER HIKERS FOUND IT INJURED.
PARK SUPERINTENDENT DAN WENK SAYS THE PARK ESTABLISHED THE YELLOWSTONE RESOURCES REWARDS FUND DUE TO AN OUTPOURING OF DONATIONS.
THE FUND WILL PAY UP TO A $25,000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE ARREST AND CONVICTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE WOLF SHOOTING CASE.
ANY MONEY LEFT OVER WILL BE USED FOR FUTURE RESOURCE VIOLATION CASES IN THE PARK.
ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE INVESTIGATIVE BRANCH ON ITS WEBSITE.
THE WOLF WAS THE WHITE FEMALE OF THE CANYON PACK, ONE OF ONLY THREE KNOWN WHITE WOLVES IN THE PARK.
AS THE ALPHA FEMALE FOR OVER NINE YEARS WITH THE SAME ALPHA MALE, SHE HAD AT LEAST 20 PUPS, 14 OF WHICH LIVED TO BE YEARLINGS.
PARK OFFICIALS SAY THESE FACTORS MADE THE WOLF WAS ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE AND SOUGHT AFTER BY VISITORS TO VIEW AND PHOTOGRAPH.
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TWO PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED LATE MONDAY NIGHT AFTER ALLEGEDLY BREAKING INTO A CASPER HOME AND TAKING A LAPTOP COMPUTER.
20-YEAR-OLD DEMOND DELVONE-YOUNG HARRIS OF DETROIT, MICH., WAS BOOKED ON CHARGES OF AGGRAVATED BURGLARY AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT AGGRAVATED BURGLARY. IF HARRIS IS FORMALLY CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED BURGLARY, HE COULD FACE FIVE TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON.
THE 17-YEAR-OLD WHO WAS ALSO ARRESTED HAS NOT BEEN NAMED. HIS CHARGING INFORMATION WILL NOT BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.
IN AN INTERVIEW WITH POLICE, HARRIS SAID HE AND HIS SISTER WERE STRANDED IN CASPER AFTER RESIGNING FROM A DOOR-TO-DOOR SALES TEAM. HARRIS WAS DESPERATE FOR MONEY AND TOLD DETECTIVES THE TEEN CONVINCED HIM TO GO TO A HOUSE AND STEAL THINGS.
HARRIS SAID HE AND THE TEEN WERE PICKED UP BY AN UNKNOWN MAN, WHO TOLD THEM HE KNEW OF A PLACE THE PAIR COULD BREAK INTO, AS HE HAD PREVIOUSLY BROKEN IN.
HARRIS SAID HE AND THE TEEN WENT TO THE BACK OF THE HOME, KICKED IN THE REAR GARAGE DOOR AND FORCED THEIR WAY INTO THE HOME FROM THE GARAGE. THEY STOLE A LAPTOP IN ORDER TO PAWN IT.
YOU CAN SEE THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO AT K2RADIO.COM.