Converse County

Converse County Attorney Quentin Richardson needs the results of the investigation by the Wyoming Highway Patrol before he can decide whether to prosecute the case.

He was previously sentenced to 30-50 years in prison on related charges out of Converse County.

A Flash Flood Warning is in effect for Converse County until 5:15 pm.

Peabody's Powder River Basin operations employ about 1,500 workers, leaving about 1,150 employed at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine after the announced reductions.

Helicopters continue to make air drops in support of fire fighters battling a major flare up in a neighborhood off Cole Creek Rd. There are multiple structures on fire and again, crews ask that civilians stay away.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, citing dry conditions and high fire danger, has placed partial fire restrictions on public lands it administers in Natrona, Converse, Platte and Goshen counties beginning today. The BLM imposes these restrictions in coordination with the counties: Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire or campfire except within agency-provided fire grates at developed

Search and recovery efforts ended Sunday morning at approx 11:20 am when the body of Deputy Bryan Gross was recovered from the waters of the North Platte River in Douglas. Deputy Gross was located between the I-25 Bridge site and Anderson Dairy Bridge, appx 1...