Author: Bob Moen
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Bare-knuckle boxing from a bygone era looks for a comeback
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In 1889, the great John L. Sullivan, the Boston Strong Boy, beat Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds — yes, 75 — in what the International Boxing Hall of Fame has called the “last significant bare-knuckle bout in boxing.” Since then, about the…
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Deer hunting limited in Colorado, other Western US states after tough winter
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Hunting guide Mike Clark normally has more than 20 clients lined up each fall for trips deep into Wyoming’s western wilderness to shoot mule deer, prized by hunters for their size and impressive antlers. But unusually cold weather and heavy snowfall that blanketed much of the Western U.S. last winter killed off…
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Harsh winter took heavy toll on wildlife across western U.S.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Wildlife suffered higher than normal losses this winter in severe weather across the western United States, where the toll included the deaths of all known fawns in one Wyoming deer herd and dozens of endangered bighorn sheep in California. Wildlife managers in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington also reported higher losses…
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Horse left behind in Wyoming wilderness survives for 6 weeks
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — On a 16-mile trek off a mountain, a young horse lay down — she could not go another step. The mare looked deathly ill to the men leading a train of horses out of a base camp for hunting and fishing excursions. In a race against the weather last fall, they left…
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Snow helps wrap up below-average wildfire season in US West
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — With measurable snowfall already dusting parts of the Rocky Mountains and Northwest, the 2016 wildfire season has wrapped up in much of the West, despite some flames still flaring in Southern California and Colorado. The region saw a below-average fire season overall, with about 7,500 square miles burned so far this year,…
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Woman pleads guilty to robbery, says prison is like home
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A longtime inmate who was recently released from prison pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to robbing a bank in Wyoming and asked a judge to impose the maximum sentence, saying going back to prison would be like going home. Just a week after the robbery, Linda P. Thompson, 59, waived her…
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Freed soldier’s hometown makes welcome-home plans
HAILEY, Idaho — The news of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release from captivity Saturday spread quickly in his hometown in southern Idaho, and residents immediately began making plans for a welcome-home celebration. An annual event called “Bring Bowe Back” scheduled for June 28 was quickly renamed “Bowe is Back.” “It is going to be…
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High court rejects challenge to roadless rule
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Environmental groups hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, ending one of the main legal battles that had left the rule in doubt for more than a decade. “The Supreme Court action validates…
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High court rejects challenge to roadless rule
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Environmental groups hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal challenging a federal rule that bars development on 50 million acres of roadless areas in national forests, ending one of the main legal battles that had left the rule in doubt for more than a decade. “The Supreme Court action validates…
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Colo. Guard unit caused wildfire in Wyo.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Officials say a Colorado National Guard engineer unit training with explosives started a wildfire that has burned about 22 square miles in southeast Wyoming. The Sawmill Fire began last Saturday on the Wyoming National Guard’s Camp Guernsey training area. No structures were lost and no one was hurt, but the fire forced…