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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 anti-anxiety pills. She wanted to take him to the hospital, but first she called her sister, a forme...

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 2018, Provenza organized a police reform group, Albany County for Proper Policing. On the campaign tr...

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 sheriff, making sense of the opportunity he’s seized.  “It was a bit of a whirlwind for the first w...

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 strong suspicion that we are in a similar situation ... regarding an officer here," Hime wrote to me...