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The last of five defendants charged with defrauding investors of more than $4 million by promoting non-existent wind farm projects in Wyoming and South Dakota has pleaded guilty to federal felony charges

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 CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The state of Wyoming is asking a federal judge not to dismiss a lawsuit challenging last year's decision to turn over management of wolves to the state.

 Environmental groups las

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Environmental groups have dropped one of two federal lawsuits challenging last year's federal action that turned management of Wyoming wolves over to the state.

Lawyers for WildEarth Guardians and eight other groups dropped their lawsuit in federal court in Cheyenne this week

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — A Laramie woman accused of posting an anonymous Facebook threat against herself has a previous conviction involving a 2005 gun-waving incident.

Court records show Meg Lanker-Simons pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in May 2006 and was sentenced to six years of probation

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A bipartisan group of western lawmakers are pushing legislation in Washington to restore cuts of $110 million in federal mineral royalty payments to 35 states. Senators from New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Idaho have signed onto legislation that Sen

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) —  Nobody was hurt in a fire at a power plant near Wheatland. Platte County officials say sheriff's dispatchers got a report around 2:30 p.m. Tuesday of people trapped in a roof collapse at the Laramie River Station

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Prosecutors are still investigating whether to proceed with a new trial for a Wyoming man who was granted the state's first retrial based on DNA evidence.

Laramie County District Attorney Scott Homar said Friday that his office hasn't yet decided whether to proceed with a second prosecution of Andrew J

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) A New Mexico man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson in the fire that destroyed the main building of the Hitching Post Inn, a landmark hotel in Cheyenne.

Fifty-two-year-old Ajay Jariwala of Albuquerque entered the plea early Friday evening before a federal judge in Cheyenne

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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Jackson students may be getting some quiet time in upcoming school years but not because they did something wrong. Teton County School District No. 1 administrators are studying the effectiveness of meditation in improving student test scores

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's high school graduation rate fell to 78.9 percent in 2011-12.

Figures released Friday by the Wyoming Department of Education show the rate is down from 79.7 percent in 2010-11 and 80

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