Casper Star Tribune

CASPER, Wyo. -- Sam Fletcher started a custom firearm dealership in 2007, after graduating with a Ph.D. in biotechnology and coming up empty in Wyoming’s job market. Six years later, he’s thinking it may be time to reconsider the company as a hobby rather than a cash cow.

CHEYENNE — Members of the Wyoming Senate organized themselves Tuesday and received some somber advice from their new president.

CASPER, Wyo. -- He spends most of his fall outside in the mountains, so finding a wolf was not a matter of if, but when.

Like most hunters, Joe Hargrave bought wolf tag to put in his pocket just in case; he wasn’t wolf hunting, specifically. Hargrave had been elk hunting in early October when he saw wolves lying in a meadow several miles away. It took three hours to sneak up on the pack of seven. Waiting in the trees, he chose one and shot.

CASPER, Wyo. -- Alexis Jennings had a serious reason to keep her stepmother quiet, officials say.

Jennings had confided in the woman that she had previously molested a young girl, a deputy said at her Tuesday hearing in Natrona County Circuit Court. Because the stepmother had, in turn, revealed her secret, officials say Jennings wanted her “gone.”

CASPER, Wyo -- Casper College Director of Public Relations Rich Fujita received a call from campus security at 9:17 a.m. Friday. A homicide had been reported on campus. He was told Casper police believed the suspect was deceased.

CASPER, Wyo. -- Abandoned household appliances are a common site amid the bluffs, gulches and ridges on state Sen. Charles Scott’s Natrona County ranch. Washing machines and refrigerators are riddled with bullet holes and left behind for someone else to remove. The ground is covered with shotgun shells, broken glass and other refuse on some parcels. Empty Remington boxes sit by cow pies.

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Merlin, Grant and Gracie were on death row at a shelter in Scottsdale, Ariz., when Peter Rork swooped in and saved them.