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Teton County Search and Rescue helicopter pilot Ken Johnson is assisted after being flown out of the Togwotee Pass back country in northwestern Wyoming near Jackson on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. A helicopter crash in remote northwest Wyoming has killed one of the three people aboard who were trying to help a snowmobiler, and sheriff's officials say the snowmobiler also has died. The snowmobiler's party had called for help Wednesday. Teton County sheriff's officials say the helicopter had reached them but was leaving to get more help when it crashed on Togwotee Pass. They say 63-year-old rescuer Ray Shriver was killed, and the pilot and another rescuer were taken to a hospital. Sheriff's officials say deputies reached the snowmobilers after tending to the helicopter victims, but 53-year-old Steven Anderson of Morris, Minn., also has died. Details of what led his party to call for help weren't immediately available. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Bradly J. Boner)

Rescuer, snowmobiler killed when copter crashes

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 1:07pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Federal authorities on Thursday were investigating the crash of a search-and-rescue helicopter in northwest Wyoming that killed a volunteer crew member who was trying to help an injured snowmobiler who also died.

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The main destination ski resort in Jackson Hole is preparing to replace one of its lifts and make terrain changes for next ski season.

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to replace lift

Mead Gruver The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 6:19pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- The main destination ski resort in Jackson Hole is preparing to replace one of its lifts and make terrain changes for next ski season.

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Snow King Resort in Wyoming up for sale

Mead Gruver The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 10:54pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Plenty of Jackson locals enjoy having Snow King Resort just a few blocks from where they work so they can make a couple quick ski runs over their lunch breaks.

Such loyalty and ample snow over the past couple of winters haven't kept ski operations at the resort from losing between $500,000 and $1 million a year. Now, after a nonprofit community group tried but failed to step in and run Snow King, the 72-year-old resort is up for sale.

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Demonstrators celebrate after receiving inaccurate reports that death row inmate Troy Davis had been granted a stay of execution as they gather for a vigil in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Davis is facing lethal injection for killing an off-duty Georgia policeman in Savannah -- a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Ga. executes Davis; supporters claim injustice

Greg Bluestein The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 1:58pm

JACKSON, Ga. -- Strapped to a gurney in Georgia's death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail. Just a few feet away behind a glass window, MacPhail's son and brother watched in silence.

Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 demonstrators cried, hugged, prayed and held candles. They represented hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as Davis' final days ticked away.

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Federal Reserve chairman Paul Bernanke walks past reporters without speaking as he arrives at a morning session of the Economic Policy Symposium at Jackson Hole in Moran, Wyo., Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Bernanke proposes no new steps to boost economy

Martin Crutsinger, Paul Wiseman The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 1:08pm

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke leaned on Congress on Friday to do more to promote hiring and growth, or risk delaying the economy's return to full health.

Bernanke proposed no new steps by the Fed to boost the economy. But at a time when Congress has been focused on shrinking long-run budget deficits, he warned lawmakers not to "disregard the fragility of the current economic recovery."

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Drunk-to-keep-warm defense works for DWI suspect

The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 30, 2010 - 10:31am

JACKSON, Mo. -- A southeast Missouri man has been acquitted of drunk driving after claiming that he consumed alcohol to keep warm after -- but not before -- he lost control of his vehicle on an icy road.

Thomas Drummond of Jackson told a court that he had been driving home after a night out with friends last February when his vehicle veered off the slick highway and into a culvert. Drummond says he was not intoxicated while driving, but that he was by the time emergency workers arrived more than two hours later.

The Southeast Missourian reports a jury acquitted Drummond last week.

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The rivers run through it in Montana and Wyoming

Dennis Anderson, Star Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 5:54pm

JACKSON, Wyo. -- At day's end in a crowded campground south of this town we hung our waders from the ladder on the back of the camper. This was at dark or near-dark and the Snake River carried itself in broad sweeps from the Tetons through Jackson and along the edges of the campground before riffling and pooling its cold, clear water downstream.

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