Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont was projected to win the Democratic caucus in Wyoming on Saturday, with just over half of the counties reporting. The AP called it for Sanders with 56 percent of the vote, and his rival Hillary Clinton at 43 percent.
Cocaine and nuclear weapons: A good mix? That’s what an official probe into coke abuse by “about a dozen airmen” at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming will investigate, the AP reports.
A Wyoming man who had a diabetic emergency while driving this weekend found an unlikely savior in famed harmonizer Layzie Bone, who came to the man’s aid and successfully revived him using chocolate and fruit, The NY Daily News reports.
A 16-year-old exchange student visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison on Friday after turning her back on the creature to pose for a picture, NBC Montana reports. According to park officials, the girl’s injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
The death penalty is slowly losing prominence in America. Botched executions and problems with the supply of drugs has made lethal injection harder to carry out. Still, states are determined to balance out this trend with sheer bloodlust.
Antiviral is an occasional column in which we run down the worst hoaxes, pranks, Photoshops and straight-out lies blowing up on the internet.
Elizabeth Cheney, non-gay daughter of the former VP, tried to run for Senate from Wyoming and ended up pissing off her family. She also pissed off some of Wyoming's best-loved pols, including the family friend who she's trying to unseat. All of which would have been fine, but it turned out she pissed off voters, too.
Running for a Senate seat in Wyoming is hard enough. First, you have to lay the groundwork with a crazy PAC and crazy talk on Fox. Then you have to actually move to Wyoming, which sucks, because you totally liked DC—except for all the gays, of course. And that just leads you to this other family problem.
A seemingly odd question was posed to the Casper (Wyoming) Star Tribune back in 2008 concerning the number of escalators in the city.
It took some forty years of convincing, but Barry Strang finally managed to persuade his wife Pam to let him buy a motorcycle.
Liz Cheney wants to be in the Senate, and she wants to be in the Senate now. So much so that's she's thinking of challenging her not-not-evil father's old fishing buddy, Michael B. Enzi, which could start a Republican "civil war."
While hiking in Wyoming recently, Coloradan Lexi De Forest attempted to jump a trench and failed — miserably. She twisted her ankle — literally — and couldn't move.
The United States Olympic Committee officially unveiled its 530-athlete roster for the London this week. Wyoming, a mythical paradise where golden gods with rippling muscles run barefoot through grassy fields and gyms all day, is sending more athletes per capita to the Games than any other state, according to Time…
The nation's least populous town sold at auction for $900,000 today. Everyone who lived in the town is moving to Windsor, Colorado. (It was just one guy. He lived there alone.)
Chelsea Clinton's husband, Marc Mezvinsky, has apparently left his hedge fund job to go skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for "a few months." His wife, however, will visit him "every few weeks." Jeez, Chelsea, give the guy some space.
The Capitol has selected its 2010 National Christmas Tree from a Wyoming forest! Park rangers, however, are worried about vandals cutting it down and "must figure out how to obscure its exact location within the 3.4 million acre park." Impossible.
[Rodeo riders enjoy a jet airshow in Wyoming. We just really really like this photo for some reason. It's beautiful and funny and sad. All in one! And it's via AP]
