north Casper

Pictures are worth a thousand words, but the Casper Police Department offered a few more in an update to the delivery truck attempting to drive under the notorious McKinley Bridge last week.

The smell of smoke wafted throughout North Casper on Friday evening, as firefighters with Casper Fire-EMS put out a trailer that was on fire.

The Casper Police Department announced on Thursday that Kenneth Marion, the primary suspect in a North Casper shooting that occurred on September 2, 2022, has died.

According to a media release from Casper Fire-EMS, they received multiple calls regarding smoke and fire coming from a garage near a residence in North Casper.

Despite challenges from the bitter cold temperatures, firefighters accessed the crawlspace area and extinguished the fire, which they determined to be caused by space heaters placed in close proximity to flammable materials.

Firefighters say damage to the mobile home is extensive.

The suspicious person is described as an adult male.

The market value of the former school is $326,000.

Natrona County voters set a record with a total of 7,106 absentee ballots cast.

The former Roosevelt school was able to be used as a polling place for the Aug. 21 primary because the Casper Housing Authority bought the former school.