K2 Radio News: Flash Briefing For November 1st, 2017 – Evening

A woman who admitted in May to stealing memorial vases from grave sites and selling those vases as scrap metal was sentenced to a term of imprisonment Wednesday afternoon in Natrona County District Court.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A coal company that was recently denied a permit to mine in northern Wyoming is appealing the decision.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming high school staff member has been placed on administrative leave after an altercation involving an autistic student.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials are reconsidering whether federal protections are needed for a rare, cold-water insect after scientists confirmed its presence in previously-unknown locations in Wyoming and Montana.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Two governors are warning the Trump administration against big changes in a plan to protect a ground-dwelling bird across the West, saying it would send a message to states not to bother cooperating to save other imperiled species.