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Man Who Won Wyoming Hunting Rights Case Gets 10 Years For Child Porn
A Billings man known for his Supreme Court tribal hunting rights victory over Wyoming will spend at least the next 10 years in prison for possessing 850 images of “child explicit material.”
Clair McFarlandAugust 04, 2023
Man Accused Of Torturing Wife After She Helped Get Him Out Of Assault Charge
A Glendo, Wyoming, man whose wife helped him dodge an aggravated assault conviction last year now faces numerous violent criminal charges for allegedly torturing and terrorizing her throughout two years of their marriage.
Clair McFarlandAugust 04, 2023
Alleged Drunk Driver Plunges Truck Down Embankment In Yellowstone
Visitors near the East Entrance to Yellowstone may have seen more than they bargained for Thursday when an alleged drunk driver was arrested after crashing his red pickup into another truck and then plummeting down an embankment.
Andrew RossiAugust 04, 2023
Judge Won't Let Wapiti Residents Join Lawsuit To Kill Cellphone Tower
A group of Wapiti residents who don’t want a proposed 195-foot cellphone tower in their neighborhood can’t have a say in a lawsuit the company has filed against Park County to move the project forward.
Clair McFarlandAugust 03, 2023
‘You Are All Gonna Die’, Cheyenne Man Charged For Threats To Dental Clinic
A 40-year-old Cheyenne man faces up to three years in prison on suspicion of making terroristic threats when a local dental clinic charged him a $35 missed appointment fee, including posting “you are all gonna die” to the clinic’s Facebook page.
Clair McFarlandAugust 03, 2023
Gillette Inmate Hurls Poop At Jailer, Says He Wants To Get Sent Back To Prison
A 38-year-old Campbell County jail inmate faces a felony assault charge for hurling his poop and urine onto a detention officer, and said he’d keep doing it until he’s sent back to prison, court documents say.
Clair McFarlandAugust 03, 2023
Triple Murderer Who Killed Ex-Wife, Two Sons During 'Hunting' Trip To Stay In Prison
Gerald Uden, who killed his ex-wife and two adopted sons in 1980 when he convinced them to go bird hunting, says that his 2013 confession to the three murders was coerced, a claim the Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected for the second time.
Clair McFarlandAugust 02, 2023
Wyoming Dept. Of Corrections Updates Policy On Transgender Inmates
To deal with transgender inmates in the Wyoming Department of Corrections system, policies on how to accommodate those inmates are being updated, including rules on determining “genital status.”
Clair McFarlandAugust 01, 2023
Cadaver Dog, Draining Pond Turn Up No Clues In Search For Missing Worland Woman
Even after bringing in a cadaver dog and draining a pond, there’s still no sign of 28-year-old Breanna Mitchell of Worland, who disappeared July 22.
Andrew RossiAugust 01, 2023
Church Elder Says He’s The Focus Of UW Discrimination, Not Transgender Sorority Member
A Laramie church elder who was banned from the University of Wyoming Student Union for a year for publicly calling out a transgender sorority member as "a male" says the school is discriminating against him for saying so.
Clair McFarlandJuly 31, 2023
Seven-Decade Prison Term Remains For Gillette Man Who Molested Sisters
The Wyoming Supreme Court on Monday upheld the 2022 conviction of John Byron Mills, 47, who sexually abused an underage girl and forcibly raped her older sister on separate occasions in Gillette.
Clair McFarlandJuly 31, 2023
Wrong-Way Driver Accused Of Killing Five Not Sane Enough For Trial, Court Finds
A Wyoming District Court judge says Arthur Nelson, 58, is not sane enough to face trial for driving the wrong way on Interstate 80 and causing a crash that killed five young Bible college visitors.
Clair McFarlandJuly 31, 2023