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15 hours ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
CASPER — A 20-year-old man is accused of pointing a loaded 10 mm pistol at three girls and demand they leave a local skate park. He and a 19-year-old friend had alcohol and marijuana while cruising in a Mazda on Tuesday when they committed what a prosecutor called another “senseless” act involving young people and weapons in Casper.
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18 hours ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
CASPER — An admitted illegal immigrant with “probable” ties to a Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Thursday to dealing meth and possessing firearms in a plea deal in U.S. District Court. Oscar Espinoza Duarte was arrested in Fremont County on Feb. 25 after a law enforcement investigation into drug distribution on the Wind River Reservation.
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20 hours ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
CASPER — A serial biter who nearly bit off the finger of a Natrona County Sheriff’s Office deputy Tuesday barked like a dog and stuck out his tongue during his initial appearance in Casper Circuit Court on Wednesday. Between his bizarre animal noises and activity via videoconference from the Natrona County Detention Facility, the man calmly answered Judge Nichole Collier’s questions as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
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1 day ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
CASPER — Charges are expected in at least one of two shootings in Casper on Sunday while the family of a man killed at an apartment complex is pleading with the city’s young people to “put the guns away.”“You all have an opportunity to change your lives for the better,” the family of Anicio Bernard wrote in a message on a GoFundMe campaign. Bernard was killed in a double shooting at Foxhill Apartments early Sunday evening.
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3 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
Editor’s note: This story involves subjects and imagery some may find disturbing. Read at your discretion. CASPER — A 48-year-old Casper man pleaded guilty to eight of 12 charges of sexual exploitation of children in Natrona County District Courton Monday stemming from an investigation that involved more than 30,000 files of child pornography. Some of the files contained images of sadomasochism as well as bestiality, according to court documents.
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3 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is available. CASPER — A woman living in a southside apartment complex in Casper on Sunday said she heard gunshots and a plea for someone to call 911, then opened the door leading outside her building to find the body of a masked man at her feet with a gun in his hand.
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4 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
CASPER - The Casper police are investigating two separate shooting and three victims from incidents Sunday evening. Officers responded to the 1900 block of South Missouri Avenue abot 6:50 p.m. Sunday for a report of a traumatic injury. Multiple callers reported hearing gunshots in the area, police reported in a news release. “When officers arrived on the scene, they located two individuals with apparent gunshot wounds,” police reported.
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4 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
He’s been kicked out China twice and banned for smuggling Bibles. He’s faced rocket fire and bullets in Kabul, Afghanistan, and remembers calling a board member of his ministry from Armenia seeking prayer as he was about to take a suitcase of scriptures into Iran.
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5 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
One of the oldest bridges in Wyoming sits on a long abandoned “road” in the middle of Albany County, where the antelope roam and the wheels of a doctor’s auto in 1910 once crossed on his way to save the life of a sheepherder. It also was likely a link on the Lincoln Highway that stretched across the continent in 1913 and may have seen future President Dwight Eisenhower pass over it as part of a coast-to-coast convoy in 1919. The best way to see it now is from the air.
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5 days ago | 
cowboystatedaily.com | Dale Killingbeck
On the north side of Gillette stands a working memorial to a 36-year-old Campbell County firefighter who on a bitter cold winter night in 1989 responded to an emergency page. Marietta Kornick (then Mickelson), his wife, and mother of their two children remembers the evening well. “He and my son, Chad, were on the computer about 10 or 10:30 p.m., and he got the fire call. I had already gone to bed because I had a cold,” she said.
