Laramie County News

A man connected to robberies through Pepsi Cola containers will be going to prison.

Gov. Dave Freudenthal has named Laramie County Circuit Judge Thomas Eugene Campbell to the county's District Court bench.

Police say a clerk foiled an attempted bank robbery in Cheyenne on Friday. The Laramie County Sheriff's Department says a man in a hooded sweat shirt and sunglasses followed a female clerk into the Wells Fargo Bank in east Cheyenne when she arrived for work at about 7 a.m. Sheriff's spokesman Gerry Luce says the man indicated he was armed and ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in Wyoming has risen to 63.

The Wyoming Department of Health reports that the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of swine flu, the H1N1 virus has risen to 47 in the state.

Diane Peters, from Charlotte, plans to compete in the AARP National Spelling Bee June 20 at the Little America Hotel in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Testing at the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory has increased the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of -swine -Mexican flu virus in state residents to 25, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.A A Of the confirmed infections, 23 are from Laramie County, one is from Uinta County and one is from Natrona County.

Sixty-seven former students of defunct Warren National University are suing the school, saying they were misled into thinking its degrees had value.

A dispatcher for the Goshen County Sheriff's Office says there were no reports of damage in the Friday afternoon event.

Lab testing at the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory has confirmed the first known infection of a state resident with the swine Mexican flu virus, according to Wyoming Department of Health officials.

The Wyoming Department of Health says a 13-year-old Laramie County boy has tested positive for swine flu, the first known infection of a Wyoming resident with the virus.

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: Wyoming's coal research plant will be built in Laramie County On Friday afternoon, the The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees approved Cheyenne as the location for the new $100-million pilot plant built jointly by the state of Wyoming and General Electric Co.

Coal-gasification facility a boon to Wyoming wherever it's sited The selection of Cheyenne as the site of the planned High Plains Gasification-Advanced Technology Center may be a head-scratcher since no coal is mined in Laramie County, but with that decision in place, construction on the research facility should begin immediately so a cleaner, ...

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 10--CHEYENNE -- Susan Keenan's fourth-grade class at Anderson Elementary had sent a packet to the mayor's office.

A pilot plant to research ways to use Wyoming coal more cleanly will be built in Laramie County.

About 30,000 Bresnan Communications cable subscribers in Cheyenne and Albany County have lost their local CBS affiliate, KGWN, because of a contract dispute between the station and Bresnan.

Mar. 30--CHEYENNE -- Students in Luanne Gearhart's class at Laramie County Community College learn by reaching out to others.

A Cheyenne junior high student has been hospitalized in Denver with bacterial meningitis.

I introduced two bills in the 2009 Wyoming Legislative Session that dealt with alternative energy.

Children at the four elementary schools in this southeast Wyoming district sure had fun in the middle of the week.

Each Wednesday at midday, they were let out of class to play at school or head home, while their teachers met for staff development.

The locals call it Wacky Wednesday. Depending on whom you ask, it's either cutting-edge _ a new report says the world's best students learn from teachers who spend a lot of time in training _ or a waste of time.

Concern over the schedule came to a head recently when the Laramie County School District 2 board voted to get rid of Wacky Wednesday at the 840-student district.