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The majority of Casper City Council says it's in favor of either repealing or rewriting the city’s recently established public indoor smoking ban.

The ban was discussed for nearly an hour at Tuesday’s council work session.

Councilman Daniel Sandoval w

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With Casper City Council planning to revisit its five-month-old public indoor smoking ban, Smokefree Natrona County says, in the coming weeks, it will watch the actions of council closely.

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With the help of a major Seattle-based firm, a Casper law firm has filed a class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the North Carolina-based Golden Corral Corporation just days after the Wyo

State engineers have issued a call on the administration of water rights for many Wyoming communities situated along or near the North Platte River, citing persisting drought conditions, a lack of mountain snowpack and a general lack of available water

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According to an official report released by the Wyoming Department of Health, a state epidemiologist says the cause of a Norovirus outbreak that sickened several hundred customers of Casper’s recently-opened Golden Corral restaurant late last year was likely “restaurant associated.”

The report was made available to K2 Radio on Wednesday.

The report says at le

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A 34-year-old Oklahoma City man has been indicted by a federal grand jury, after investigators say he made online threats against the city of Casper.

According to the FBI, on January 14th, Glenn Kirkham posted a threat on a popular online forum “4chan,” claiming Casper-area residents might be in danger

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Gov. Matt Mead says he has concerns with a bill pending in the Wyoming Legislature that would seek to exempt the state from any new federal ban on assault weapons.

Mead, a Republican and former federal prosecutor, told reporters Tuesday that he's a gun owner himself and owns some of the firearms that could be banned

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MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after his abductor was seen with a gun.

Steve Richardson with the FBI's office in Mobile said at a news conference Monday afternoon that negotiations deteriorated and that 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes had been seen with a gun

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ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a 14-year-old has been wounded in a shooting at an Atlanta middle school and a suspect has been taken into custody.

Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos says the wounded student has been taken "alert, conscious and breathing" to Grady Hospital

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Rescue crews are stepping up their efforts to find a person who is presumed to have drowned in the North Platte River in Casper.

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