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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s first Black sheriff last year fired a high-ranking...

By Brendan LaChance on June 4, 2021 CASPER, Wyo. — Happy hot afternoon and welcome to the latest edition of With Casper Pride celebrations set to kick off on Wednesday, let’s begin with a It is great to see people like Cynthia expressing support for people in Casper’s LGBTQ community, especially knowing that there are definitely still pockets of bigotry alive in Wyoming, the country and world. While we rarely ban people from commenting on our stories, we have had to ban two people th...

/ A screenshot of dash camera footage that captured Albany County Sheriffs officer Derek Colling approaching the vehicle of Robbie Ramirez. An Albany County Sheriffs Corporal who killed an unarmed man in 2018 has resigned. Sheriff Aaron Appelhans said Derek Colling submitted his resignation Wednesday, but Applehans did not comment on the details surrounding the resignation. Colling was widely criticized after he shot and killed Laramie resident Robbie Ramirez during a traffic stop. It was the t...

Albany County Sheriff's Corporal Derek Colling has official resigned from the Sheriff's Office yesterday. This comes 31 months after he had killed Robbie

Wyoming sheriffs official resigns amid wrongful death suit MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming sheriffs corporal who is facing a wrongful death lawsuit in the killing of an unarmed mentally ill man in 2018 has resigned. Derek Colling left his job Wednesday, the Albany County Sheriffs Office said in a release Thursday. No other information about the personnel matter would be provided, the release said. Colling had no listed phone number and could...

Save this story for later. In September, 2009, a card dealer named Evie Oquendo arrived at her apartment, on the far east side of Las Vegas, with groceries for her fifteen-year-old son, Tanner Chamberlain. Tanner, who struggled with bipolar disorder, had stayed home from school that day, and Oquendo wanted to make beef stew, one of his favorite meals. But, before she could start cooking, Tanner became extremely agitated. Not long afterward, she discovered that he had swallowed a handful of her ...

He steps into an office with a long history of racial bias and a need to rebuild public trust.

As a restless nation took to the streets for police reform in 2020, then-statehouse-candidate Karlee Provenza — a Laramie Democrat — traveled the streets of Wyoming’s third-largest city on a campaign of her own. A PhD candidate in criminal justice at the University of Wyoming, Provenza had a personal relationship with the national conversation on redefining law enforcement. In the wake of the controversial police-involved shooting of mentally ill man Robbie Ramirez in her community in 2...

Wyoming’s first Black sheriff takes office in troubled times Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans stands in front of the courthouse in Laramie on Dec. 21, 2020. Appelhans is the first Black sheriff in the state of Wyoming. (Joel Funk/WyoFile) Albany County Sheriff Aaron Appelhans still has some work to do before his office is set up. The walls are mostly empty as stacks of framed pictures sit on shelves and the floor, paperwork piled high obscures the desktop. Behind it all sits the new sher...

Jan Wright This "backstory" is a part of a collection of articles that describes some of the obstacles that Seven Days reporters faced while pursuing Vermont news, events and people in 2020. I wrote a couple of stories last year about police using fake social media accounts to engage citizens — anonymously. After the practice brought down two top law enforcement officials in Burlington, I got an email from Kati Hime of Laramie, Wyo. "I have a ...