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Wyoming asks national lab to review coal plant

The Wyoming Business Council has asked the Idaho National Laboratory to review a private company's plan to build a coal-to-gasoline plant in Carbon County.

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AP Interview: Simpson blasts debt impasse

Alan Simpson, the plain-spoken former U.S. senator from Wyoming, said Tuesday the American people see through the tax increases-versus-spending cuts rhetoric that brought the country to the brink of defaulting on its debt and continues to dominate national politics.

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AP Interview: Internet tax a states' rights issue

Before he became a U.S. senator, Mike Enzi ran a shoe store and was mayor of Gillette, in the heart of Wyoming's coal country.

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Blast at Wyo. oil production site kills 3 workers

Authorities won't be able positively to identify the three workers killed in an oilfield explosion in eastern Wyoming until autopsies are performed on them, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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Wyo. horse roundup plan changes to birth control

Backing away from a plan to castrate wild stallions that has incensed environmental groups, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Friday announced it will instead use a birth-control drug on mares to reduce the growth of wild horse herds in southwestern Wyoming.

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Wyoming, feds announce plan for delisting wolves

Wyoming ranchers and hunters fed up with wolves attacking livestock and other wildlife would be able to shoot the predators on sight in most of the state under a tentative agreement state and federal officials announced Wednesday.

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Feds back off Wyoming wild horse castration plan

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has backed off its plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in southwestern Wyoming, lawyers told a federal judge Tuesday.

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Wyo. sheriff praises deputy who died in rescue

A Wyoming lawman who died last week trying to rescue a girl from a swollen river made the selfless decision to risk his own life, his supervisors said Monday.

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Wyoming joins challenge to federal wilderness rule

Wyoming is seeking to join Utah and Alaska in challenging an Obama administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection.

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Truck loaded with bees closes Wyoming highway

An accident involving a truck loaded with honey bees temporarily forced the closure of a highway in central Wyoming.

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Indians question Colo. firm's motives in vote case

The Mountain States Legal Foundation has built a reputation as an influential behind-the-scenes player over the years on conservative legal causes.

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State pays $110K to settle with kidnapped trucker

The state of Wyoming has paid $110,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a Walmart trucker kidnapped last year by a rogue state trooper in an aborted murder plot.

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Honduran gets 20 years in Wyo. bull-rider overdose

A Honduran man who pleaded guilty to selling heroin in Denver was sentenced to 20 years in prison for supplying the drugs that killed a Wyoming young professional bull rider and two other people last year.

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Matt Mead elected Wyoming governor

Republican Matt Mead has been elected governor of Wyoming.

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US rep.: Estate tax rise has some planning death

U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis says some of her Wyoming constituents are so worried about the reinstatement of federal estate taxes that they plan to discontinue dialysis and other life-extending medical treatments so they can die before Dec. 31.

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Rebounding Wyo. economy boosts revenue projections

Improvements in Wyoming's economy, led by a resurgent energy industry, are prompting budget analysts to predict healthy increases in state revenues over nearly the next two years.

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Bill would exempt wolves from federal protection

U.S. senators from Wyoming, Idaho and Utah proposed legislation Thursday that would strip federal endangered species protections from wolves in the northern Rockies.

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Gay couple challenges Wyoming's marriage law

A gay couple has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Wyoming law that defines marriage as existing only between a man and a woman.

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Ill. trucker rebuilding life after identity theft

Trucker Earl Robert Hood didn't know his identity had been stolen until his commercial driver's license was suspended in 2008 for four DUIs he never committed.

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Petersen wins Wyo. Democratic primary

Wyoming Democratic Party chairwoman Leslie Petersen has won the party's nomination in the governor's race.

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Judge gives man 60 years in Craigslist rape case

A judge has sentenced a man to serve 60 years in prison for using Craigslist to arrange the rape of a Casper woman.

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Colo. man loses $12.5M judgment in Wyo. ranch deal

A federal judge has ordered a Colorado man to pay $12.5 million for failing to close on a ranch purchase in Wyoming in 2008.

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Judge won't dismiss abducted trucker's lawsuit

A federal judge has denied the state of Wyoming's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Colorado trucker kidnapped by a rogue state trooper last year.

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Wyo. Supreme Court: Budget records should be open

The Wyoming Supreme Court says Gov. Dave Freudenthal wrongly withheld draft budget documents from a Cheyenne newspaper last year.

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Wyo. tribes oppose amendment on $3.4B settlement

Leaders of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes say a Wyoming senator's proposed amendment would derail a pending $3.4 billion federal settlement with American Indians nationwide.

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