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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming is asking law enforcement agencies to provide more officers during home football games as the university prepares for its first year of allowing alcohol to be sold at War Memorial Stadium.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan to end America's longest war and eliminate Afghanistan's rising extremist threat involves sending up to 3,900 additional U.S. troops, senior officials said Tuesday. The first deployments could take place...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday renewed its request to the news media for privacy for President Donald Trump's young son, Barron, after a conservative news and opinion website criticized the casual attire he wore home after the…
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's unemployment rate has fallen significantly over the past year but not because more people are getting hired to fill a growing number of jobs.
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It took nearly 24 hours, but Campbell County firefighters and Rawhide coal mine personnel have contained a fire burning in a large industrial building at the mine.
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A case containing explosives was found Monday afternoon by a seasonal city of Gillette worker who was weeding the Bivens Park flowerbeds on Seventh Street, Police Lt. Chuck Deaton said.
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Dianna Langston, from left, Sally Craig and Vicki O'Neil watch a solar eclipse Monday from from a swing at Overlook Park in the Foothills subdivision in west Gillette. Jacoby Garcia, 17, from left, his sister Ellie, 10, and grandfather Bob Cobler sit in...

Campbell County firefighters continue fighting a blaze that broke out in a large industrial building at the Rawhide coal mine site south of Gillette on Sunday. The Fire Department responded to the mine at 8:14 p.m. to find mine personnel battling a fire...

Two of the men found carrying about 30 pounds of marijuana in Gillette when their cross-country bus trip was interrupted by a drug dog have been given suspended sentences. Zhi Wei Liang, 57, and Bo Yi Chen, 54, have been given suspended three- to...

Plans are under way by the National Park Service to make a wild game preserve of the Devils Tower. The Tower was visited recently by Mr. Morrell, chief engineer of the National park Service, who stated that it is the plan of the service to fence the...

The altercation started when text messages sent back and forth between the man and his mother became heated over "family matters." He then went to his mother's house on Southern Drive, where he met his mother in the doorway, grabbed her, threw her down,...

Gillette News Record JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has trapped and relocated an adult, male grizzly bear in northwest Wyoming . The bear was captured Aug. 11 for getting into livestock feed west of Meeteetse in Park County....

A Michigan woman accused of trying to fraudulently buy several iPhones in Kansas and Gillette has pleaded guilty at her arraignment to attempting to obtain property by false pretenses, a felony, and misdemeanor identity theft. As part of the plea...

Campbell County Under Sheriff Quentin Reynolds stands near a 1989 basketball trophy with his name on it during an open house at Campbell County High School. Reynolds, who was at the open house with his son Quincy thinks the switch to two high schools in...

Angela Hill gives Richard and Martha Rose the very last pair of solar eclipse glasses at the Campbell County Visitors Center. The center had sold out of the 10,700 pairs it had originally bought for the eclipse, but on Saturday, an out-of-state traveler...

Teacher Tingting Wofford, right, talks with sophomore Sarah Carstens, left and her mother Amy during an open house Thursday at Campbell County High School. Teacher Tingting Wofford, right, jokes with Fred and Amy Carstens, parents of sophomore Sarah...

Dick graduated Newcastle High School in 1970, and went to work for True Oil. Linda graduated in 1972, and after the couple married they lived in Clareton until 1974.
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K2 Radio After apprehension in recent days that cloud cover or thunderstorms may prevent folks in Wyoming from seeing Monday's total solar eclipse, K2 Radio Meteorologist Don Day has some great news. In his latest eclipse weather update, Day details two...

Mr. Rambin is survived by his only son, Frank Louis “Josh” Rambin III of Gillette ; his parents, Frank and Wanda Rambin of Gillette ; two sisters, Jackie (Ken) Adair of Goodyear, Arizona, and Judy (Danny) Fritzler of Gillette ; one grandson, Jett Tyler...

K2 Radio Within the path of totality, travelers will find the Wyoming Eclipse Festival, Wind River Eclipse and Torrington Farm Festival, as well as street festivals found throughout many communities. Outside the path of totality, events and festivals...

Medical dummies are ready for nursing students use in a simulation lab for the upcoming fall semester at Gillette College on Thursday afternoon. Northeast Wyoming has a surplus of STEM graduates and not enough nurses.
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In respect of her wishes, no services will be held. The family requests that memorials be made to Close to Home Hospice in Mrs. Robinson's name. Memorials and condolences may be sent in care of Walker Funeral Home, 410 Medical Arts Court, Gillette , WY...

Gillette News Record CASPER — Federal and state agencies have put fire bans in place across Wyoming in preparation of Monday's solar eclipse, which is expected to bring tens of thousands of visitors to Wyoming . The Bureau of Land Management and U.S....

Earlier this month, the Eugene Register-Guard reported Bigby-Williams would not face charges in the incident, which occurred at an apartment near Gillette College in Wyoming in September. The Register-Guard reported in June that Gillette College...

Traffic in Wyoming in anticipation of Monday's total solar eclipse was already up by about 20 percent over five-year daily averages by early Friday, as anticipation continued to build toward a celestial rarity that has captured the nation's imagination...

VANESSA JEAN FAY, 45, was given a deferred sentence July 27 for child abuse, meaning that if she successfully completes five years of supervised probation, the charge will be dismissed. District Judge Michael N. "Nick" Deegan also ordered her to pay $710...

A man accused of stealing two cars and leading law enforcement on a high-speed chase before jumping into an empty coal car and holding up railroad traffic for about three hours has been bound over to District Court to face charges. Jacob D. Hodges, 21,...

A wall of smoke billows from a fast-moving grass fire sparked by lightning Thursday at about 1:45 p.m. a mile from the Gillette-Campbell County Airport. The blaze, contained at 480 acres, burned onto airport property, but caused no flight delays.
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Some Gillette residents are more concerned than ever about the support social service agencies need and have mixed emotions on the Optional 1 Percent Sales Tax. The citizen survey sent out by the city of Gillette is a tool to gauge how the community...

An Idaho man accused of having sex with a teenager and impregnating her in 2010 while he lived in Gillette has pleaded no contest to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a minor. Timothy B. Duelke, 35, of Shoshone, Idaho, had been charged with six...

Dr. Rebecca Painter, a physician who has practiced internal medicine in Gillette for 30 years, has had her license suspended for five years by the Wyoming Board of Medicine. The Board of Medicine reports that it conducted an investigation and found...

... made in Darryl's name to Camp Wyoba (Wyoming Baptist Church Camp). Memorials and condolences may be sent in care of Gillette Memorial Chapel, 210 W. Fifth St., Gillette , WY 82716. Condolences also may be expressed at...