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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether has laid out the most grim budget outlook of his tenure just a year after proposing the city's most ambitious capital plan ever.
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LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Seven married couples from the same New Jersey shore town, including a rabbi and his wife, now face charges that they misrepresented their income to get a combined $2 million in public welfare benefits they weren't…
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CHICAGO (AP) — Three Chicago police officers have been indicted on charges that they conspired to cover up and lie about what happened when a white police officer shot a black teenager 16 times — which prompted outrage when a…
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Samsung is investing $380 million in South Carolina to manufacture home appliances, creating an estimated 950 jobs over the next three years.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Capitol police arrested a man after Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument was smashed to pieces when someone rammed a vehicle into it early Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the 6-foot (1.8 meter) granite statue…
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Summer is upon us, and that means car sales are in full swing. With the July Fourth holiday approaching, car dealership advertisements flood the airwaves and every deal sounds better than the one before it. Given all that noise, you…
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PHOENIX (AP) — A wildfire burning Wednesday through a dense Arizona forest has forced hundreds of people from their homes, closed a major road and created a huge plume of smoke over the same area devastated by a blaze that…
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Seven projects, many of which have applications to Wyoming issues -- including identification of promising catalysts for carbon fuel and chemical production, cloud seeding to enhance precipitation and a study of the Blair-Wallis watershed -- were...

Henry Bosshart, who recently created a sensation by throwing the body of his infant son in a water hole near Peerless instead of burying it, was arrested last Saturday on a warrant from the office of the county attorney's charging him with failing to...

She wrangled an impressive third place finish at Nationals last year in Gillette , Wyoming . She's racked up quite a belt buckle collection as well, too many to hang on the wall. She has 32 now. “I've given some away to some little boys that might dream...

... Fatal Crash During Chase Pleads Guilty. 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. ... Information from: The Gillette (Wyo.) News...

Thomas Lubnau III , an incoming senior at Campbell County High School, was one of 373 people in the country to be recognized with a Congressional Award gold medal in Washington, D.C., this past week. Lubnau was one of more than 38,000 people who worked...

The Campbell County Fire Department responded to a pair of fires Friday afternoon, a sign that fire season is underway and that people should exercise caution. One fire was about 5 miles northeast of Gillette at the 3400 block of North Garner Lake...

A 28-year-old man has pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide for his role in a June 2015 head-on collision that killed another man. Grant Gleason entered the plea Friday morning in Campbell County District Court, in essence admitting that his...

A civil engineer in Cheyenne, he works for RESPEC Consultants and is a graduate of the University of Wyoming's College of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a Cheyenne East High School graduate. The Nike Ease Challenge competition was...

The Register-Guard The sexual assault investigation of a member of University of Oregon's Final Four basketball team is an open but inactive case, according to Gillette College officials in Wyoming . Officers with the Gillette College Police Department...

The annual Avenues of Art reception will feature displays of 16 new statues chosen to decorate Gillette's roadways and main thoroughfares over the next year. The event will take place at the Donkey Creek Festival at the Gillette College Technical...

The attorney for a woman implicated in the deaths of two Sweetwater County men last fall has asked her trial be postponed indefinitely. The trial had been scheduled to start July 5 for Kylee Collins, 23, for accessory after the fact and two counts of...

The Gillette hospital board has agreed to pay $118,500 to build two rooms on the second floor to use for training and assessment as it prepares to begin a major room improvement project next spring. It's part of the $30 million patient room remodeling...

Cast members of "Once On This Island" hold up lanterns as they sing during a dress rehearsal at the Cam-plex Heritage Center on Thursday evening. Sugar Bond, from left, playing Mama Euralie, Adia Canks as playing Ti Moune and Black Carlson as Tonton...

CYNTHIA JULISSA LEMUS, 32, of Gillette was sentenced June 6 by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl for conspiracy to distribute a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Lemus was arrested in Gillette.
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Casper Star-Tribune Online Wyoming Food Bank of the Rockies will hold a mobile pantry food distribution from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday in Gillette . The WFBR, with a grant from the Gillette Ministerial Association, will distribute food at the Prince of...

Casper Star-Tribune Online They also had good things to say about Wyoming's drivers, especially on U.S. Highway 14-16, where they traveled the 97 miles from Buffalo to Gillette . “The drivers, I felt, have been very courteous. Out on those rural roads,...

Two weeks ago, Campbell County Emergency Management Coordinator David King went to the Campbell County Commissioners, asking if they'd be willing to pay for a lightning detector to have in place before the National High School Finals Rodeo in mid-July....

Clerks at the district and circuit courts in Wyoming's Campbell County, where Gillette is located in the state's northeast corner, said Thursday that their records showed no cases filed against Bigby-Williams. The UO also contends that the ... Former...

A scammer got more than he bargained for when he tried to swindle a 69-year-old Gillette woman out of some money Wednesday morning. The scammer called the woman's husband's cellphone and said her husband owed $5,276 in back taxes from 2010-2016.
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Gillette Community Theater will present the final three performances of its 2017 melodrama, "Martin and Margaret and the Mindswap" on Friday and Saturday in Gillette. The play will be offered at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and a matinee is scheduled at 2...

Alec Althuisius talks with David Rivera over an intercom as Rivera is diving in the water tower to clean it on Tuesday morning. David Rivera fastens his diving helmet with help from Rafal Karlicki as he prepares to dive in the water tower off Doud Drive...

The Donkey Creek Festival mascot, signed by musicians who have played the festival in the past, is up for auction. The winner will be announced before the final band Sunday.
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LSU coach Will Wade picked up a commitment from Oregon transfer Kavell Bigby-Williams on Tuesday but it came out Wednesday that Bigby-Williams has been under investigation for sexual assault since September, according to a report by The Daily Emerald,...

After being honorably discharged from the Army in August 1972, the couple returned to Wyoming where John worked for the city of Gillette . The couple had their first son, Michael Shawn, on Feb. 3, 1973, in Buffalo. The couple was blessed three years...

Lucas Laplante, 5, comes down the slide as Keaton Hislop, 5, watches during a fun day at the City Pool on Tuesday afternoon. Bridger Nannemann, 3, plays in the water at the City Pool as temperatures officially reach 91 degrees on Tuesday...

The Wyoming Integrated Test Center will take the national stage next week during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing to discuss the future of advanced energy technologies, including carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration, according to a press...

She married Jack Pownall May 26, 1942, and they moved to Wyoming to make their home on the ranch northeast of Gillette . They had five children, Bryan, Judy, Jeannie, Terry and Bill. While her husband was in the U.S. Navy during World War II, she lived...

Casper Star-Tribune Online A Gillette man died Friday after falling during a climb of Devils Tower, the National Park Service reported. Matthew Sorenson, 38, suffered major head injuries after he fell while climbing with friends on the Sundance route....