Afternoon News Update

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Legislature's Joint Education Interim Committee is holding discussions on how the state runs its public education system. The discussion on Friday in Cheyenne stems from the struggle between the Legislature and the governor's office and state Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill over control of the Wyoming Education Department...

RIVERTON, WYO. (AP) — Court proceedings for a woman accused of killing her newborn son have been delayed for a mental evaluation. Ardis Sierra Enos of Ethete was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the boy's March 26 death minutes after she gave birth to him...

PERTH, AUSTRALIA (AP) — The anger felt by the Chinese relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysian jetliner doesn't appear to have eased. More than 100 of the relatives of Chinese passengers walked out of a teleconference meeting today with senior Malaysian officials -- protesting the decision by the government not to address them in person...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA (AP) — The effort to try five Guantanamo Bay prisoners by Military Commission for the Sept. 11 terror attack has been shut down at least for now by an apparent FBI investigation. The FBI is looking into how the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attack was able to send two letters and an essay out of the prison without passing through a security review...

A FORMER NURSING HOME AIDE HAS BEEN SENTENCED FOR TAKING MONEY FROM AN ELDERLY PATIENT. A natural gas processing facility in Casper is closing, leaving dozens of area workers without a job.

WOLF GANG OF WYOMING IS HARD AT WORK PUTTING TOGETHER A NEW PROGRAMMING LINEUP FOR CABLE CHANNEL 3. A CASPER WOMAN WILL SPEND TIME IN PRISON FOR POISONING HER STEPMOTHER WITH EYE-DROPS.

CASPER CITY COUNCIL ANALYZED CONCEPTUAL IMAGES OF WHAT COULD BE THE NEW MIKE SEDAR POOL AT A RECENT WORK SESSION. THE NATRONA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE HAS OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED THE NATRONA COUNTY GOP OF THE UPCOMING VACANCY OF THE SHERIFF'S ELECTED POSITION.

CASPER-NATRONA COUNTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT PASSENGERS MAY ENCOUNTER SHORTER SECURITY CHECKPOINT WAITS IN THE FUTURE. THE NATRONA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE HAS OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED THE NATRONA COUNTY GOP OF THE UPCOMING VACANCY OF THE SHERIFF'S ELECTED POSITION.

A CASPER MAN WILL AVOID BEING LABELED AS A HABITUAL CRIMINAL, AFTER CHANGING HIS PLEA IN AN ARMED ROBBERY CASE. For the first time in a few weeks, gas prices in Wyoming remained pretty much unchanged in the lastest report.

IT MAY HAVE LOOKED LIKE A HAZARDOUS MATERIAL SITUATION OUTSIDE OF THE WYOMING MEDICAL CENTER, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE. MEMBERS OF THE HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY ROOM STAFF WERE GOING THROUGH THEIR YEARLY HAZ MAT TRAINING EXERCISE. SEVERAL CHANGES ARE COMING TO PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION IN CASPER.