K2 flash briefing

COURT DOCUMENTS SAY DISPATCHERS RECEIVED A SHOTS-FIRED CALL SHORTLY AFTER 9:45 P.M. THURSDAY.

  Casper City Council member Todd Murphy, who represents Ward II in west Casper, announced his resignation early Wednesday morning, according to an email sent to city officials and employees. //k2radio.com/casper-council-member-todd-murphy-resigns/ ================================== The decision to not prosecute a man accused of a raping a Casper woman devastated her, but it will not derail the ef

The decision to not prosecute a man accused of a raping a Casper woman devastated her, but it will not derail the efforts of dozens of women to press for changes in the local justice system, a city council member said. //k2radio.com/...

A Cheyenne man will spend at least 35 years behind bars — an enhanced sentence for being deemed a habitual criminal — for seven felonies related to a high-speed chase that could have killed two Highway Patrol troopers in August. ...

  Eight people were arrested, four of them having been charged in federal court, in a significant Casper-area methamphetamine trafficking ring which was reportedly supplied in part by a foreign drug cartel. //k2radio.com/four-face-federal-charges-for-running-cartel-supplied-meth-ring-in-casper/ ===================================================== A University of Wyoming Foundation employee has fi

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Business Council will provide up to $5.7 million in loans to sugarbeet farmers in the Bighorn Basin whose crops were hit hard by rain and cold weather. The council's Board of Directors voted unanimously Thursday for the loans to support the 60 families with ownership stake in Wyoming Sugar. ...

KEMMERER, Wyo. (AP) — 23-year-old man accused of killing a Utah train worker in western Wyoming waives right to a preliminary hearing. Dereck James "DJ" Harrison made his initial court appearance Thursday in Kemmerer on Wyoming charges that could carry the death penalty. ...

AN ETHETE MAN WAS SENTENCED TO 108 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF 12 COUNTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE LAST YEAR.

  A Casper man who is already serving a prison sentence in the Wyoming State Penitentiary was sentenced to spend about another decade behind bars for the sexual assault of a young girl. //k2radio.com/casper-man-sentenced-to-prison-for-sexual-assault-of-13-year-old-girl/ ==================================================== Dehalococcoides, a little microorganism with a long name, will start breakin