CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even during tight budgetary times, a growing handful of state governors, including Dave Freudenthal, are proving too wary to accept laptop computers that have shown up at their offices this month, unsolicited.

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Beginning next week, federal officials plan to thin by more than a third a wild horse herd that roams a mountain range along the Montana-Wyoming border.

Enzi to give weekly address CHEYENNE -- Health care will be the topic as Sen. Mike Enzi gives the Republicans' weekly national address today.

DILLON, Mont. -- Wolves killed 122 buck sheep in a pasture south of here earlier this month, surpassing the number of sheep killed by wolves in the entire state in 2008, state wolf managers said.

The nation must enact medical malpractice reform as a first step in fixing the cost of and access to health care, U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Friday.

CHEYENNE -- Legislative leaders from 15 states say they will attend the energy symposium in Jackson that Wyoming state government is sponsoring this fall.

It didn't take long for Kelly Walsh to equal last year's victory total. One game, in fact.

When Dana Morin offered why the Beartrap Meadow cross country course is one of the toughest in the state, the list of reasons certainly sounded daunting.

CLASS 4A Overall Conf W L W L Chey. Central 0 0 0 0 Chey. East 0 0 0 0 Evanston 0 0 0 0 Gillette 0 0 0 0 Green River 0 0 0 0 Kelly Walsh 0 0

CHEYENNE - Cheyenne Central and Natrona County were constantly trying to one-up each other, trading big play after big play.

Gillette 23, Evanston 14 Gillette started out its state title defense on the right foot Friday night in Evanston.

Cross county Casper Invite Friday, at Casper Mountain Boys Team: Laramie 52; Gillette 58; Natrona County 66; Sheridan 84; Cheyenne Central 95; Buffalo 155; Kelly Walsh 178.

Calling the crimes "absolute idiocy," a judge sentenced a Casper teenager to three to eight years in prison Friday for his role in a string of vandalism that victimized nearly 90 people.

KWHS holds Back to School Night Kelly Walsh High School will host its Back to School Night on Thursday, according to a media release.

This year could be the last that fifth-graders have the opportunity to pick up a violin or clarinet.

It would take "a magnitude of absences" to close schools because of seasonal or swine flu, according to a Natrona County School District official.

Compiled by SALLY ANN SHURMURStar-Tribune staff writer

A Casper man was arrested Thursday for allegedly impersonating a police officer.

Depth is a good thing to have on a baseball team, but the Casper Ghosts didn't count on having three catchers with at least 47 at-bats at this point of the season.

The Casper College volleyball team starts the season in a familiar position -- with a target on its back.