If you honestly believe the Bible is a moral lighthouse leading you on a path to Heaven, then you cannot in good conscience believe in feminist ideals. I am not talking about straw-man feminism, the movement that televangelist Pat Robertson decried as a “socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill…
A Wyoming man was arrested on July 16 after leading police on a pursuit from Colorado to Albany County. Earl Mercer, 42, with a last known address in Cheyenne, took a white cargo van from the front of a home in Laporte, Colorado at about 7 p.m. The van, owned by Fort Collins Heating and…
Laramie man pleaded guilty yesterday to his fourth DUI in a ten year period. Robert Depina, 47, initially pleaded not guilty last month, but he entered a guilty plea at a change of plea hearing yesterday morning. The plea was entered as a “cold plea,” meaning there is no plea bargain involved in the change…
At a change of plea hearing yesterday, a Laramie woman admitted to taking over $40,000 from her employer. Kristina Muechel, a former office manager at Laramie Dental Arts, faces up to 10 years in prison and up to a $10,000 fine as well as $41,092.61 in restitution for a single count of wrongful taking of…
A Laramie man changed his plea on Tuesday on an amended felony charge of sexual abuse of a minor in the third degree. Corwin Bernard, 22 years old, faced three to five years imprisonment in 2011 after a guilty conviction on one charge of accessory before the fact to third degree arson; however, he now…
Laramie citizens responded to a photo posted by UWPD on Monday of two suspects in a felony property destruction case. UWPD received numerous tips during the day it took to identify the suspects. Both the UniWyo Sports Complex and the War Memorial Fieldhouse were vandalized early on Monday morning. Police posted a photo of the…
Sentencing for a former Laramie taxi driver who allegedly drove drunk and caused over $100,000 in medical damages to a passenger ended on Monday with the driver receiving six to nine years in prison. James Rollman, 63, has three prior drunk driving charges in the past ten years, and he pleaded guilty to driving under…
Ruth Henson, 52, pleaded not guilty by reason of mental illness to two charges of aggravated cruelty to animals last Thursday. The charges stem from an incident where she allegedly smothered two of her daughter’s cats with plastic bags. Henson faces up to two years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine for each of…
Former Albany County Attorney Richard Bohling is trying to challenge the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office’s ability to prosecute him. The Wyoming Attorney General’s Office responded to two motions filed on behalf of Bohling on June 12. Bohling filed two separate motions in the last month, a motion to dismiss his case, as well as a…
A man was arrested Sunday 29 miles from the scene of a crash that left another man dead a mile east of Laramie. According to a Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP) press release, at 10:15 on Sunday a 2015 International tractor-trailer driven by Thomas Vannest, 59, of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, collided with a 2008 Boss Hoss…
Three Laramie businesses located on the 400 block of Second Street were back in business less than a week after a partial collapse left the safety of the public in question. The three businesses closed due to the collapse were Prairie Rose Café, Undercover Bed and Spa and Hero Depot. Hero Depot reopened on last…
The National Park Service scaled back its search efforts Monday for Morgan Heimer, a 22-year-old former English major at UW, after six days of searching with no success. Heimer, working for Tour West, a whitewater river-rafting touring company, was on the sixth day of an eight-day tour of the Colorado River on June 2, when…
