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Judge blocks Wyoming’s 1st-in-the-nation abortion pill ban while court decides lawsuit By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming for now, after a judge ruled Thursday that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect July 1 as planned while a lawsuit proceeds. Attorneys for…
Debris has been found near the Titanic during search for submersible, US Coast Guard says By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press The search for a missing submersible with five people aboard took a bleak turn Thursday when the U.S. Coast Guard said a debris field was found at the bottom of the ocean…
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) received the Defender of Limited Government Award for “her tireless work to defend the freedoms of people in Wyoming.” The Institute for Legislative Analysis presented Lummis with this award for her score on its Limited Government Index. Lummis ranks in the top 10 senators defending limited government on this scorecard.…
The latest on the search for the Titan submersible and outlook for rescue Associated Press undefined The search for the submersible vessel carrying five people that disappeared while on an expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic neared the critical 96-hour mark Thursday. A growing number of aircraft, ships and underwater equipment from the…
Lawsuit: Insufficient prototype testing could put Titanic sub passengers in ‘extreme danger’ By GENE JOHNSON and ROBERT JABLON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The company whose submersible vanished in the North Atlantic on a tourist dive to the wreck of the Titanic was repeatedly warned that there might be catastrophic safety problems posed by the…
Underwater noises heard in frantic search for submersible missing with 5 aboard near Titanic By PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER Associated Press A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive operation searched early Wednesday in a remote part of the North Atlantic for a submersible that vanished while taking five people down…
Doctor Joe McGinley is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist who has a successful practice in Casper. By all accounts, Doc McGinley is an accomplished man of medicine and successful businessman. But there is something more, something deeper that he wants to accomplish. The good doctor wants to summit all seven peaks in the world. He almost…
Build begins on Wyoming-to-California power line amid growing wind power concern By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Portrait photographer Anne Brande shoots graduation and wedding engagement photos at scenic spots throughout southeastern Wyoming’s granite mountains and sprawling sagebrush valleys, but worries what those views will look like in a few years. Wind…
Hunter Biden will plead guilty in a deal that likely avoids time behind bars in a tax and gun case By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has reached a deal with federal prosecutors on charges he failed to pay federal income tax and illegally possessed a weapon, according…
What we know about the Titanic-bound submersible that’s missing with 5 people onboard By The Associated Press undefined A search is underway for a deep-sea vessel that went missing with five people aboard after it dived toward the deteriorating wreck site of the Titanic ocean liner. The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the search for…