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In the incident, police say the girl's mother, Sara Cage, also beat the same boy.

Officials say more than three feet of snow dropped over the mountain roadway this week and that additional snow and high winds were expected Thursday night.

That conclusion from the Bureau of Land Management comes after a judge ruled last month the administration had failed to consider the environmental effects of resuming coal sales from public lands.

Ford was one of several pilots told to remove their remove their aircraft from a hangar at the Jackson Hole Airport before December 1st.

Wyoming's Clear Creek Brewery is being forced to change its name by a corporate distillery located over 1,000 miles away.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Highway Patrol says a 6-year-old girl is dead and seven of her relatives are injured following a rollover crash on Interstate 80 in southwestern Wyoming. Sgt. Stephen Townsend says Dynasty X. Barcenas of Plainfield, Ill...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Two people are dead after a helicopter on a rescue mission crashed in remote northwest Wyoming. Teton County deputies say the rear rotor on the chopper may have failed just before yesterday's crash that killed 63-year-old Ray Shriver, one of three rescuers trying to reach a snowmobiler who also died...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by U.S. House Democrats says Wyoming accounts for more than 800 of the 2,000 citations issued over a 13-year period to companies for safety and drilling violations on public lands in 17 states. The report says federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent...

FIREFIGHTER-PORNOGRAPHY Ex-Cheyenne firefighter charged in federal court CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A former Cheyenne firefighter accused of possessing and distributing child pornography is now being prosecuted in federal court. Thirty-one-year-old Joseph Golden had been charged in state district court, where he pleaded not guilty last week...

PAVILLION CONTAMINATION CHEYENNE — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found high levels of benzene and other chemicals in its latest groundwater samples from a Wyoming gas field. A variety of chemicals and high levels of methane turned up in two wells drilled specifically to test for pollution in the central Wyoming community of Pavillion...