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Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now it's time for Words You'll Hear, that's where we dig into stories in the news by parsing a word or two. We have two words this week - free speech. It's a topic that's come up at a number of...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to turn back to the health care bill presented by Senate Republicans last week. They say the plan will cut costs and stabilize insurance markets. Yesterday, we heard from Lynn Cooper...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we've already mentioned, last week, a jury in St. Paul, Minn., acquitted the police officer charged in the shooting death of Philando Castile. At the time, Philando Castile's companion,...

A Wyoming man who caused a fatal crash as he was being chased by authorities in northern Wyoming has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide. The Gillette News Record reports 28-year-old Grant Gleason entered the...
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The historic giant sequoia in Boise, Idaho, towers some 10 stories tall. At more than a century old, it also weighs a hefty 800,000 pounds and measures roughly 20 feet around at its base. Oh, and it had to move a few city blocks. All of which raised a...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A recent development in the Wyoming Capitol Square Project will allow people to step into a room restored to reflect what it was like when Wyoming's constitution was written.
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JACKSON, Wyo. — Visitors from around the world have listened to a recording at the Jackson Hole and Greater Yellowstone Visitor Center of Nathan Watson explaining the partnership between the Boy Scouts of America and the National Elk Refuge.
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Balloons, body paint, joy and mourning — across the world Sunday, Muslims gathered to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan, and the festivities took nearly as many shapes as the places they were held. Now, not every Muslim opened the Eid...

An eight-hour cease-fire declared by the Philippine military ended abruptly on Sunday. As soon as the "humanitarian pause" reached its designated end, though, Marawi descended back into the gunfire that has pervaded the southern city for more than a...

Yellowstone National Park is taking steps toward turning part of its bison trap at the northern edge of the park into a certified brucellosis quarantine facility.
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With 2,500 inmates, the penitentiary institution of Fresnes, about 20 miles south of Paris, is one of the largest prisons in Europe. Like most French prisons, Fresnes is overcrowded. Built in the late 19th century, its tiny cells, each meant for one...

Ernest Littlebird put his grill out on the side of Route 39 in Lame Deer, Mont., under the shade of a tree and started grilling hamburgers. "Come get a dollar burger," he says. "Good meal, you know, something to put in the belly at least." Littlebird is...

The man who fought to make child labor a crime against humanity came to Washington, D.C., last week with a message for America and its new president. Kailash Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his efforts to end child labor, urged U.S....

Republicans dominate Wyoming politics like no other state without relying on the old political trick of gerrymandering, or adjusting political boundaries to gain an unfair advantage among voters.
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Moments into his highly anticipated on-camera briefing Wednesday — the first after a seven-day absence — Trump press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about the persistent rumor that he will soon transition into a new role within the White House...

Updated at 8:20 a.m. ET At least 150 people who had gathered to collect fuel from an overturned tanker truck in Pakistan were killed when it caught fire Sunday, according to The Associated Press. More than 100 people were injured, many with severe burns....

President Trump took to Twitter to question his predecessor's judgment and actions — at the end of a week characterized by a steady drumbeat of questions about how and when the Obama administration chose to respond to Russian interference in the 2016...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now a different take on believers struggling to adjust to this moment in America. Earlier this week, one of the most liberal churches in the country, the Unitarian Universalists, met to...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now it's time for the Barbershop. That's where we talk with a group of interesting folks about what's in the news and what's on their minds. And this weekend, what's on the minds of millions of...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Thursday, Senate Republicans revealed their approach to repealing and replacing the Obama administration's signature health care initiative, the Affordable Care Act. The Senate bill, which they...

While she was a primary care doctor in Oakland, Calif., Dr. Vanessa Grubbs fell in love with a man who had been living with kidney disease since he was a teenager. Their relationship brought Grubbs face to face with the dilemmas of kidney transplantation...

Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We wanted to take a closer look at one particular issue with the Senate's new health care bill that has been raised by a number of skeptics and critics including President Obama in a Facebook...

GILLETTE, Wyo. — A pair of bicyclists rode from Buffalo to Gillette one Friday. By then, they had nearly 1,500 miles under their belts, but they still had a stretch to go before reaching their final destination in Maine.
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Seized by violence and teetering on the edge of famine, Yemen is grappling with another danger that threatens to outpace them both: cholera. "We are now facing the worst cholera outbreak in the world," international health authorities said in a statement...

You could say Martha is a rather cheeky gal. That is, the jowly 3-year-old Neapolitan mastiff has some remarkably expansive cheeks — so expansive, in fact, they droop practically to her knees and flap like slobbery wings when she shakes her head. And now...

A two-hour closure of U.S. 20/Wyoming 789 through Wind River Canyon is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 27, to help rockfall mitigation crews have adequate time to safely drop a large rock and other debris on and near the highway.
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Rivers are running high and fast in northwest Wyoming, but officials caution people looking to float with inner tubes to stay out of the water for now.
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The last defendant is sentenced in the case of a decapitated body found in northwest Wyoming. Pedro Garcia, Junior was accused of hiring a hit man to kill his sister’s boyfriend in December, 2013.The victim, Juan Antonio Guerra-Torres was found in a...

Ten people face felony drug charges after state agents tied them to the sale of prescription painkillers illegally prescribed to them by a former Casper doctor.
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On Wednesday morning, three males entered multiple banks in Cody, Wyoming requesting to exchange around $3,000 in $10 and $20 bills for larger denominations.
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Steve Heinowski started the last morning of his family’s trip to Yellowstone cranking a Gatling gun capable of firing 10 rounds per second. Then he played mini golf.
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People associated with multiple failed oil and gas projects or companies in Wyoming will have to notify regulators if they try again within the Cowboy State.
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Multiple people fled a Ford Mustang on Thursday night after it became ensnared in a wire fence on a South Side lawn, according to the Montana Highway Patrol.
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Sens. John Barrasso and Mike Enzi on Thursday praised the newly released Senate health care bill, a piece of sweeping legislation they helped craft that they say will protect Americans from the failing Affordable Care Act.
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U.S. government officials say grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park region are no longer threatened, and that they will lift protections that have been in place for more than 40 years.
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A Casper man pleaded not guilty by reason of mental deficiency Thursday to four charges stemming from an incident in which he rammed his vehicle into a Natrona County Sheriff Office patrol vehicle in a Burger King drive-through.
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A Casper man will spend decades in prison for an August crime spree during which he threatened people with a gun, stole a minivan and attempted to steal a semi truck.
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Several roads and nonmotorized trails on the Wapiti, Clarks Fork, and Greybull Ranger Districts of the Shoshone National Forest have been damaged by the continued melt of above-normal snowpack.
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Wyoming has outpaced other states by investing in technologies meant to soften the many blows coal has faced in recent years. Few in Wyoming misunderstand coal’s importance to communities like Gillette, local miners and state institutions like public...

Park County’s commissioners say they won’t give money to stop attracting bears to the county landfill, until environmentalists give money to the project. That was their answer to a request for $7000 to help build an electric fence around the only...

State authorities reopened Interstate 25 about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday after a tractor trailer hauling hazardous materials caught fire and temporarily closed the road.
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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has yet to announce the experts who will lead a two-month examination of Obama-era plans to protect the imperiled sage grouse, a bird that lives across the West and is facing significant population declines.
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Prosecutors charged a Natrona County man with three felonies for allegedly sending sexual messages to a 13-year-old girl and previously exposing himself to her on a camping trip.
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We love spending our hard-earned cash. But it’s often on things we don’t necessarily need. Hidden expenses are destroying our bank accounts. But is there anything we can do about it? Or will we just fall victim to financial failure? If you’re not sure,...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will enforce an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production, even as it seeks to rewrite the rule to be more industry-friendly, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said...

Wyoming lawmakers will explore changes to the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy to bring school districts closer to the National Guard program that targets at-risk teens.
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CASPER, Wyo. — A Wyoming man survived a fall on Disappointment Peak in Grand Teton National Park on Monday and was rescued by rangers, the park announced.
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Prosecutors could seek $17 million in addition to repayment, 3 years’ prison as judge delays fraudster's sentencing. The post Feds eye civil penalties as judge delays Ruffatto sentencing appeared first on WyoFile.
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At a meeting of key legislative committees, the powerful Senate president said he remained opposed to taxes. Does he speak for Wyoming? The post Bebout: “silent majority” opposes tax increases appeared first on WyoFile.
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There’s a new sheriff in town, and new outlaws who stage mock gunfights in downtown Cody. They’re taking the place of the “Cody Gunfighters”. That group was involved in a shooting accident that injured three audience members last July. The “Cody...