Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
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The Sundance City Council agreed at a special meeting this week to introduce an “additional dumpster fee” in times of high demand in response to the extra volumes of garbage that have been collected from around town this summer. The additional load has been caused partly by the Oneok pipeline construction, which has brought extra activity to the city through the use of such businesses as hotels and campgrounds. Clerk Treasurer Kathy Lenz told the council at July’s regular meeting that demand has been so high that CW Waste is performing two p...
CASPER — A man accused of kidnapping a child from a south Casper apartment complex on Wednesday — and then eluding police for 24 hours — now faces up to life in prison. Prosecutors on Friday afternoon filed three felony charges against Joshua Hicks, 32, who, authorities have said, abducted a young girl on Wednesday morning from a lawn near Southwest Wyoming Boulevard and sexually abused her. He then dropped her in the area of the apartment building and left in a truck, according to a series of news releases police issued in connecting to the c...
CASPER — In the first judicial test of Wyoming’s new “stand your ground” law, a Natrona County judge on Friday dismissed a first-degree murder case, but implored prosecutors to appeal to the state’s highest court. Judge Catherine Wilking handed down the ruling following a two-and-a-half-hour hearing, the bulk of which she ruled was required by the new law. Under the law, a person who is attacked at a place where he is legally allowed to be has no obligation to retreat, so long as he is not the initial aggressor or breaking any laws. A person...
