U.S. 287, infamously nicknamed the ‘Highway of Death,’ has claimed three more victims. Thursday afternoon at about 2:46 p.m., three members of the University of Wyoming’s swim and dive team died in a single-vehicle accident along U.S. 287 between Livermore and Virginia Dale, just 10 miles south of the Wyoming border. The victims were 18-year-old…
Josh Barta jbarta@uwyo.edu Albany County Coroner Jennifer Graham identified the body of a man found dead after a collision on Highway 230 last week as 19-year-old Michael Foust. Foust was a UW junior petroleum engineering major from Grand Junction, Colorado. The body of Foust was discovered in the cabin of his Nissan truck last week…
Remember sitting in 10th grade health class and listening to the “sex ed” unit that was mostly just scary stories about all the STDs we could get? Before they told us about condoms and pills, the teacher, guided by an outdated textbook and restricted by the concerned parents on the school board, told us all that…
By: Jeremy Rowley and Jeff Victor UW student Triston Harvey’s death was caused by a combination of drug use and an atherosclerotic cardiovascular (artery and heart) disease that induced cardiac arrest, according to a Laramie Police Department (LPD) press release sent out on Tuesday. First responders found Harvey not breathing on the morning of…
White Hall residents are struggling to make sense of the hall’s second suicide in seven days after the discovery of the body of a 19-year-old male student in the building on Tuesday. Chad Baldwin, UW’s director of media relations, confirmed the death. “I can confirm that there was a student death in White Hall today,…
I own a fixed gear bicycle. I collect and play vinyl records. My fashion sense could be described variably as either eccentric or metrosexual. I even work for a student newspaper. Am I a hipster? This is a question I’ve asked myself since I was first referred to as one in my junior year of…
Matthew Harker, 39, father of three. Larry Hurst, 65, father of four. These are two of the cyclists killed in 2014 in bicycle on vehicle accidents. This series of high profile cases involving bicyclists being hit by drivers in careening hunks of metal are one factor that led the League of American Bicyclists to drop…
As a campus, how do we move on from acts of violence that end with a UW student dead and a young man on trial for second-degree murder? In cases like this, it is important to note that as a nation, state, town and university we have encountered similar situations and in one way or…
“We are anxious to work with all of our regulators to ensure we do everything possible to follow up with making sure that something like this never happens again.” Tri-State Oil Reclaimers, the oil reclaiming company utilized by the University of Wyoming, had a tanker explode last Thursday, killing one worker and injuring another. Killed…
Halloween‘s festive, hard-partying atmosphere was shattered in Laramie when a UW student was killed during one of two fights at house parties. Joseph McGowan, 21, was injured while attempting to intervene in a fight involving several individuals between the late hours of Friday night and early hours on Saturday. Another fight took place in the…
The immediate aftermath of the Boston marathon bombings is over. One suspect is dead and the other is in a hospital with critical injuries. Funerals were held and across the Atlantic, the London marathon was held in honor of the fallen. It is hard to say it’s over because it may never be completely over…
