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  • 'Longmire' premieres on A&E

    for county sheriff.On Sunday night, a body turns up in the mountains with a bullet in the back. Whodunit?Johnson, who lives in Wyoming , described his hero in a press interview some years ago this way: "I assembled him, to a certain extent, from a lot of my 5/31/12 Read more »

  • U.S. Senate's surprise bipartisan drug-bill deal

    Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa , the chairman of the Senate health committee who, together with Republican Sen. Michael Enzi of Wyoming , wrote the bill and shepherded it to passage.Members of the House of Representatives should take heed, put what's good for the   Read more »

  • Wyoming tourism director anticipates good summer

    level of approximately 30,000 jobs that will be supported by the travel industry," Shober said Wednesday. "Out of all jobs in Wyoming, about 10 percent are supported through the tourism industry."In order to sustain and grow the industry, the state spends   Read more »

  • Vietnam man buys little piece of American dream

    to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford, Wyoming -- population 1.Nguyen's name was not released last week when he won the auction for Buford -- billed as the nation's smallest   Read more »

  • Crowds create Wikipedia-style maps of the world

    New York to the San Francisco Bay area, he used a talking turn-by-turn driving app to guide him across the country. In the middle of Wyoming , the voice told him to turn left where there was no road.Rather than complain to the maker of the app, called Waze,   Read more »

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About Wyoming

The State of Wyoming is a state in the western United States. While most of the eastern third of the state is within the Great Plains, the majority of the state is dominated by numerous distinct mountain ranges and rangelands. Wyoming is the least populous U.S. state. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the state population was 515,004 in 2006, a 4.3% increase since 2000. The capital and the most populous city of Wyoming is Cheyenne. Residents of Wyoming are known as Wyomingites.

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