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Driver inattention and fatigue on the part of Kristofer Counts are being investigated as possible contributing factors to the crash.

It appears the number of people dying in crashes last year in Wyoming will be the lowest it has been since 1945. As it stands at the moment, Wyoming's 2013 traffic fatality count from vehicle crashes will account for 86 deaths. In 1945, traffic deaths totaled 71.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Preliminary figures show 19 coal miners in the U.S. were killed on the job in 2012, down from 21 the previous year. West Virginia led the nation with seven coal mining deaths. The Charleston Gazette ((http://bit...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The CEO of an Arizona-based welding company and one of his employees were killed in a plane crash in northwestern Montana. Lincoln County Sheriff Roby Bowe says Stinger Welding Inc. CEO Carl Douglas of Coolidge, Ariz...

LUSK, Wyo. (AP) — A South Dakota man and a woman from Georgia are dead after a head-on collision in eastern Wyoming. The Wyoming Highway Patrol said 66-year-old Sandra Frazier's Dodge Caravan crossed over into oncoming traffic on U...

BUFFALO, Wyo. (AP) — The crash that killed an Eastern Shoshone tribal liaison has claimed another life. Twenty-two-year-old Diana Sounding Sides of Fort Washakie was ejected during the May 31 rollover crash that killed tribal liaison Ed Wadda...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says more may need to be done to combat the state's high workplace fatality rate. Mead told a meeting of the Wyoming Oil and Gas Industry Safety Alliance on Tuesday that new state workplace safety legislation might not be enough to reverse Wyoming's ranking as one of the most dangerous states for workers...

UNDATED (AP) — The powerful weather system that raked the Midwest is now blamed for 12 deaths, the latest three in the South. Officials in eastern Tennessee say powerful storms packing high winds that stripped roofs and flattened trees also killed at least three people...

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — At least one person has been killed in southwest Missouri as possible tornadoes whipped the Midwest, causing numerous injuries and significant damage. Lt. Dana Eagan of the Dallas County Sheriff's Office says one person was killed and 13 others injured when a possible tornado hit a mobile home park south of Buffalo...

HUDSON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say an arsonist is to blame for a mobile home explosion that killed two people in Hudson last November. Capt. Ryan Lee with the Fremont County Sheriff's Department says the case is now being treated as a double homicide...