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Man arrested in Pinedale after ‘paranoid sniper’ report

PINEDALE (WNE) — A man who received a split sentence on felony drug charges in July apparently violated his unsupervised probation after calling dispatch to report he was hiding from snipers at the Sublette County Courthouse. On Oct. 12 around…

School district approves girls’ wrestling program

LOVELL (WNE) — Big Horn County School District No. 1 followed the Lovell school district’s footsteps Monday, also approving a girls wrestling program in their regular school board meeting. Female students are currently able to wrestle, but the sport is still…

Wyoming still most hesitant state for vaccination

By Morgan Hughes Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Wyoming remains the most vaccine hesitant state in the nation, according to the latest numbers from U.S. Census Bureau polling. Wyoming children ages 12 to 17 now fall into…

Poll: Medicaid expansion popular

By Morgan Hughes Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER —A new poll commissioned by four nonprofits shows significant support for Medicaid Expansion in Wyoming, a government health insurance assistance program for those who can’t afford insurance and aren’t offered…

Teton areas eyed as off-limits to help bighorn sheep population

By Mike Koshmrl Jackson Hole News&Guide Via- Wyoming News Exchange JACKSON —An interagency collective of biologists is recommending that 21,233 acres of high-quality winter habitat in the Teton Range be made off limits to humans to help an imperiled, declining…

COVID spikes in state prisons

By Ellen Gerst Casper Star-Tribune Via- Wyoming News Exchange CASPER — Cases of COVID-19 at Wyoming prison facilities have spiked to their highest total since the start of the pandemic. The most recent round of testing found 148 total cases…

Sublette County man requests reduced bond, trial

PINEDALE (WNE) — A Sublette County man pleaded not guilty at his Oct. 14 arraignment in 9th District Court to 16 charges ranging from allegedly disturbing the peace to striking and strangling a live-in girlfriend. Mark S. Estrada, who was…

Man who killed friend sentenced to prison

By Jonathan Gallardo Gillette News Record Via- Wyoming News Exchange GILLETTE — A Gillette man who shot and killed his friend in 2020 will serve three to 10 years in prison. Joshua Lewis Campbell, 22, was charged in the death…

Bridger Valley veterans are Wyoming inductees into memorial program

LYMAN — Two Bridger Valley residents are the Wyoming veterans who will be inducted into the ‘In Memory’ Program for 2020. Both men took the oath, both men served in Vietnam and both returned home. Later to suffer illnesses brought…

Yellowstone sets visitation record for year

CODY (WNE) — Yellowstone National Park has broken its all-time visitation record with three months still remaining in the year. A record 4,463,000 million visitors have come through the Park in 2021 so far, shattering the previous full year record…