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[Casper Star Tribune] Wyoming Briefs

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

Abduction suspect surrenders POWELL -- A Powell man surrendered to police Monday and was charged with felony larceny and kidnapping in relation to an incident last month where witnesses say he and two other men snatched a fourth man off the street and drove away.

[Casper Star Tribune] Supercomputing center takes shape

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

CHEYENNE -- The first color renderings of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Wyoming supercomputing center were released Tuesday.

[Casper Star Tribune] Authorities presume man drowned at Boysen

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

RIVERTON -- Fremont County authorities presume that a man missing since Sunday drowned in Boysen Reservoir north of Shoshoni.

[Casper Star Tribune] Court rules against injured miner

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

CHEYENNE -- A Rock Springs man paralyzed in a trona mining accident in 2002 has lost his legal battle against his supervisor, the mine company and the company that made the machine he was operating.

[Casper Star Tribune] Colleges cut spending

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

CHEYENNE -- All seven Wyoming community colleges are cutting their budgets in line with Gov. Dave Freudenthal's request that state agencies reduce spending by 10 percent this year.

[Casper Star Tribune] Livestock disease meetings planned

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Livestock officials in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are planning a series of meetings to explain new rules proposed for the animal disease brucellosis in the area around Yellowstone National Park.

[Casper Star Tribune] Group appeals power plant ruling

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A conservation group has appealed a judge's dismissal of its lawsuit that alleges the coal-fired Big Stone power plant in northeast South Dakota violated federal environmental laws by not installing modern pollution controls.

[Casper Star Tribune] Police use Taser on parade participant

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

State agents are investigating a Saturday incident in which a 76-year-old man driving a tractor in Glenrock was tasered by police after allegedly failing to obey their orders.

[Casper Star Tribune] Troopers no longer with patrol

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:03:00 -0400

Two state troopers put on leave in conjunction with the investigation of former trooper Franklin Ryle Jr. no longer work for the Wyoming Highway Patrol, the agency's top official said Tuesday.

[Politics West] Colleges cut spending

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:03:00 -0400

CHEYENNE -- All seven Wyoming community colleges are cutting their budgets in line with Gov. Dave Freudenthal's request that state agencies reduce spending by 10 percent this year.