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The Wyoming Department of Transportation has released the draft Statewide Long Range Transportation Plan for public review and comment. As part of releasing the draft plan, there will be a series of public meetings around the state, including one in Sheridan Tuesday night.

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - Bill Ayers and a University of Wyoming student are suing the school after it banned the former radical from speaking on campus. Ayers was a Vietnam-era radical who now is a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

The last time we've seen as many grasshoppers as we are expected to see this summer wasn't since the mid-eighties. Though there may not be huge numbers of grasshoppers yet, Sheridan's University of Wyoming Extension Educator, Scott Hiniger, tells us now is the time to begin controlling the critters:

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A Republican candidate for governor says she misspoke when she said at a tea party forum that the Wyoming National Guard could properly be used against the federal government.

The feds have said “no” to an endangered species listing for a tiny mammal that only lives in Sweetwater and Carbon Counties. Conservation groups petitioned three years ago to get protection for the Wyoming pocket gopher – and that brought concerns because a listing would have affected oil, gas and wind development planned for over much of the creature’s range.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Federal authorities have charged two men in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl whose body was found on the Wind River Indian Reservation earlier this month. U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts said in a news release Friday that 19-year-old Kyeren Tillman, of Arapahoe, has been charged with sexual abuse of a minor.

We are expecting the biggest population increase in decades this summer. Sheridan Media's Betsy Love has the story

If you thought the grasshoppers were bad last year, you will be excited to know that we are expected to have even more this summer. Scott Hinger with the UW Extension Education office in Sheridan:

Several cases were heard in Sheridan County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon. Among them, 49-year-old Dennis Poitra, Sr. of Dayton made his Initial Appearance before Judge John Sampson on two charges: DUI and Driving Under Suspension. Poitra, Sr. is the father of Dennis Poitra, Jr., who is awaiting trial at the end of the summer for his alleged part in the Robert Ernst murder.

On February 3rd, 2010, Sheridan resident David Selig went to trial in Sheridan County Circuit Court on multiple charges on three different dates in 2008 and 2009 having to do with Possession of Controlled Substance - Marijuana; Driving Under the Influence; Property Destruction.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - The Wyoming Highway Patrol says a high-speed car chase in Casper has resulted in the arrest of a man suspected of kidnapping a Colorado woman and two children. The patrol says the kidnap victims, including children aged 3 weeks and 8, are safe.