Dies

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A man injured after hitting a concrete wall during an indoor soccer game in Jackson has died. Thirty-two-year-old Nicolas Izard (Ih-zerd) suffered a severe head injury during the game at Jackson's recreation center Dec...

In a release from the family of State Treasurer Joe Meyer, it was announced that Joe had passed away earlier today in Cheyenne with his family by his side. Joe was in his second term as Wyoming State Treasurer having been re-elected to that position in 2010...

WILSON, Wyo. (AP) — A truck driver from Oregon was killed in a crash after his brakes failed while descending Teton Pass in northwestern Wyoming. The Wyoming Highway Patrol said 36-year-old Jay P. Winn of Hines, Ore. was pulling a car crusher down the pass on Sunday when he lost control of his 1973 Peterbilt semi-trailer...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) — An infectious disease specialist at Campbell County Memorial Hospital says one of the three people treated there for Group A Streptococcal infections has died. Chris Brown said Wednesday that the person who died had close contact with one of the other patients before they got to the hospital, and both had necrotizing fasciitis, sometimes described as "flesh-eating bacter

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A 47-year-old man has died in a fall at Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. The unidentified man slid about 100 feet down Andrews Glacier into rocks on Thursday afternoon while descending with some friends...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The co-founder of the Taco John's restaurant chain has died. The Schrader Funeral Home in Cheyenne says Harold W. Holmes died Feb. 10 from heart complications at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix. He was 92. Holmes was born in Chariton, Iowa, on Nov...

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Federal workplace safety regulators are investigating the death of a Colorado man at a construction site at Grand Teton National Park. The National Park Service said Thursday that 33-year-old Bryon Peck fell about 15 feet Monday while installing a second-floor door on a new housing unit near the park's headquarters complex at Moose, Wyo...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a Rock Springs teen died of hypothermia after crashing his car and trying to get to shelter last month. The Casper Star-Tribune (http://bit.ly/xMv0vd ) reports Sweetwater County Coroner Dale Majhanovich determined that 18-year-old Vernon Johnson did not die from wounds sustained in the Dec...

Tiny Fennville, Mich., is getting ready to host a basketball game for the first time since 16-year-old Wes Leonard made a game-winning shot then collapsed seconds later. Leonard was rushed to a hospital where he died that night. His 14-year-old brother, Mitchell, will be a freshman guard on the same court Tuesday night and his mother, Jocelyn, will be in the stands...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Department of Corrections says a 58-year-old inmate has died after a lengthy illness. The agency says Kevin B. Wallace died last Friday at the Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, Neb. Wallace was sentenced in April 2008 in Fremont County for two crimes to be served concurrently...