James Johnson last entered the cage on May 13, 2006. Since then the Wake Forest sophomore has competed exclusively on a basketball court, but just pose the question -- "When you were a fighter... " -- and he's visibly offended by the verb tense. He slides forward in his seat at the Demon Deacons' practice facility. "I'm not done fighting," he says, throwing a few air jabs while exhaling sharply for effect. "I think about fighting all the time." His last fight seems as fresh in his mind as the previous night's 92-89 home court upset of North Carolina, an outcome that had fans storming the court and, for one week anyway, made Wake Forest the No. 1 team in the nation.
While Washington gears up for Inauguration Day, Republicans in Wyoming are taking stock of their future and assessing Barack Obama.
Sitting at a pink formica table in the breakfast room of a Howard Johnson in Spearfish, S.D., my expectations are low.
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming closed briefly Monday because of an avalanche, two days after a different avalanche killed a man there.
We all know about the Confederate states leaving the Union. But that was far from the only secessionist movement in American history. Here are some rebellious regions you won't find in too many history books.
Across the United States, an increasingly panicked rush to extract every last drop of domestic oil and gas seems inevitable. Our already unimaginative energy policy and insatiable addiction seems to have been further reduced in election-year hysteria to bumper-sticker thoughtlessness - "Drill, baby, drill."
The United States is in the midst of one of the biggest domestic oil drilling booms in recent history. High prices and better technology mean that previously inaccessible energy reserves across the nation are ripe for exploitation.
Nearly every college-bound student in Wyoming can get money to attend a state school. For many, tuition can be nearly cut in half.
Working on a drill rig in western Wyoming must be a bit like working on the surface of the moon.
Inspired by the heinous murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, proposed legislation would virtually expand existing laws to the un-American point of policing thoughts
James Johnson last entered the cage on May 13, 2006. Since then the Wake Forest sophomore has competed exclusively on a basketball court, but just pose the question -- "When you were a fighter... " -- and he's visibly offended by the verb tense. He slides forward in his seat at the Demon Deacons' practice facility. "I'm not done fighting," he says, throwing a few air jabs while exhaling sharply for effect. "I think about fighting all the time." His last fight seems as fresh in his mind as the previous night's 92-89 home court upset of North Carolina, an outcome that had fans storming the court and, for one week anyway, made Wake Forest the No. 1 team in the nation.
While Washington gears up for Inauguration Day, Republicans in Wyoming are taking stock of their future and assessing Barack Obama.
Sitting at a pink formica table in the breakfast room of a Howard Johnson in Spearfish, S.D., my expectations are low.
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming closed briefly Monday because of an avalanche, two days after a different avalanche killed a man there.
We all know about the Confederate states leaving the Union. But that was far from the only secessionist movement in American history. Here are some rebellious regions you won't find in too many history books.
Across the United States, an increasingly panicked rush to extract every last drop of domestic oil and gas seems inevitable. Our already unimaginative energy policy and insatiable addiction seems to have been further reduced in election-year hysteria to bumper-sticker thoughtlessness - "Drill, baby, drill."
The United States is in the midst of one of the biggest domestic oil drilling booms in recent history. High prices and better technology mean that previously inaccessible energy reserves across the nation are ripe for exploitation.
Nearly every college-bound student in Wyoming can get money to attend a state school. For many, tuition can be nearly cut in half.
Working on a drill rig in western Wyoming must be a bit like working on the surface of the moon.
Inspired by the heinous murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, proposed legislation would virtually expand existing laws to the un-American point of policing thoughts
Minimum-wage laws around the U.S. are a patchwork of federal and state legislation. On Thursday, the federal minimum wage rose to $6.55 per hour, but the change only affects workers in 26 states (plus Washington, D.C.). The remaining 24 states already have state minimum wages set above $6.55 per hour.
A Native American who shot a bald eagle for use in a tribal religious ceremony must stand trial, a federal appeals court has ruled
Call it modern horse-trading. Balancing the nation's energy needs with its interests in protecting wildlife and habitats.
Gas prices rose more than 9 cents over the past two weeks, to a national average of $3.20 per gallon of self-serve regular, a survey said Sunday.
After losing Democratic contests in the delegate-rich states of Ohio and Texas this week, presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama won the Wyoming Democratic caucus Saturday.
Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were in Wyoming Friday, wrangling last-minute votes before Saturday's caucuses.
Are you cross-eyed trying to figure out which tax breaks you can take this year?
A United Airlines plane slid off the runway in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Monday evening, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN.
For Wyoming forward Hanna Zavecz, the biggest shock upon arriving in Laramie from Melbourne 3 1/2 years ago was not cultural, it was climatic. "It didn't take long before I realized the sweater I wore during the winter in Australia wasn't going to cut it here," she says.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the Wyoming Republican caucus on Saturday.
The state is going ahead with its primary on Jan. 5, despite a penalty by the Republican National Committee that will strip it of half its delegates
With help from the NRA, nearly 50 Senators are pushing to end a two-decade-old rule forbidding people from openly carrying firearms in most national parks
The once vanished gray wolf has made a comeback in the Northern Rockies. The fight is over whether to remove them from the Endangered Species list and let hunters have at them
The new formula for doling out money was supposed to redistribute it more equitably among states most at risk. But small states are still getting more than their share
Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student at a campus forum. Read an account of the incident from a student who was there.
It's so hard to choose.
A Democratic governor picks a Republican for the Senate, with everyone's eyes on 2008
Some college sports require helmets and shoulder pads, others require a glove and a bat, but on Saturday night in Casper, Wyo., the outfit of choice was cowboy hats, vests and boots. It was all for the 59th annual College National Finals Rodeo (CNFR).
Republican Sen. Craig Thomas of Wyoming, who had been battling leukemia since November, died Monday night at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, a family spokesperson told CNN. He was 74.
On a windy Friday afternoon in Sublette County, Wyo., Ensign Rig No. 121 clanks and moans as it drives steel pipe 11,500 feet into the ground to capture natural gas. Just a few hundred yards away, ...
It arrived on a Tuesday morning. I flipped open my buzzing Motorola cell phone and found a text message from someone called Casey@fullrate.dk. "Hush hush wink wink," it began, "Castleguard Energy (...
Its winters may be freezing cold, but South Dakota enjoys the warmest tax and regulatory climate for entrepreneurs, according to exclusive rankings for FSB.com from the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council.
(TIME.com) Some places on Earth are simply too big to photograph: the Grand Canyon, the Great Wall, Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Those monuments don't fit in any frame; they were made -- by God or man -- to overwhelm.
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These are the rankings and average scores for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the GMAC Insurance driving test.
Look down from the cabin of Kevin Schieffer's twin-engine King Air 5,000 feet over Wyoming's Powder River Basin, and it's easy to see why he and his investors want to build the first major new rail...
In Washington, the revolving door usually leads lawmakers to become lobbyists so they can cash in on their connections. But in some cases, it spins all the way around; creating a rare circumstance in which a lawmaker turns lobbyist turns lawmaker.
Wyoming tops the list of states with the most business-friendly tax system, according to a report released Monday.
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These are the average scores on a 20-question driver's test administered to more than 5,000 licensed drivers in a survey commissioned by the GMAC Insurance.
ON A FREEZING, PRISTINE DAY, WITH the Bighorn Mountains shining nearly 100 miles away across the Wyoming prairie, a huge dragline with an arm longer than a football field gulps 100 cubic yards of r...
Your credit report is your financial resume that's seen by creditors, insurance companies, landlords and potential employers.
Widely dispersed populations connected by narrow two-lane highways are a recipe for dangerous driving, according to a simple look at state-by-state traffic fatality counts as reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
I turned 40 the other day. You may have missed the news, since no one bothered to write about it.
These are sweet days for deal-hungry entrepreneurs putting their firms on the selling block. At this time last year, small-business owners were lucky even to find a serious buyer--let alone one wil...
When researcher Karen Clark developed the first probability-based model for measuring the threat of natural disasters in the U.S. in 1987, almost no one cared.
The Wyoming titan's world-class terrain has always been able to deliver a beating; now its village can rejuvenate you.
Investing in small companies sounds like a great idea, but it's hard to know where to start looking. That's why we asked 12 of the smartest small-cap-fund managers we know to recommend their favori...
Sound upgrade Even as the war over digital music rages, Americans download. In fact, according to research firm Ipsos-Reid, by February of this year nearly 25% of Americans over the age of 12--abou...
When looking for a home, a million dollars can go a long way--depending on where you're looking. These days, in pricey locales like New York City and Silicon Valley, you can't get much bang for you...
Bonneville Lock and Dam, Cascade Locks, Ore.; 541-374-8820; www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/b; free. The oldest federal dam on the Columbia River and site of the state's salmon hatchery is just south of ...
We asked locals to recommend child-friendly hotels and restaurants near each of the dinosaur facilities. The restaurants are all low- to mid-priced. The hotel rates are for one weekend-night stay f...
I'm sitting in the back of a battered, cluttered van parked at a North Dakota truck stop, playing cards with someone I met a week earlier. We both have the punchy, dazed look of people who've spent...
January is the slowest month of the ski season--everyone's worn out from the holidays--so bargains abound. From Jan. 2 to Jan. 26, Aspen Ski Tours (800- 778-8589) offers five nights in Jackson Hole...
Starting in July, lawmakers hope to protect small investors better by splitting oversight of financial planners and other investment advisers between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the ...
Two years ago, Robert Mixson, 37, and his wife Janet, 33, thought they had achieved the good life in Coral Gables, an upscale Miami suburb. Their careers were thriving--his as a $140,000-a-year obs...
YOUR JUNE NEWSLINE REPORT ABOUT the high cost of fines for drivers caught speeding seemed to suggest that speeding is acceptable behavior. What a foolish way to think. For example, the Wyoming spee...
Smart manufacturers these days don't give a supplier blueprints for parts; they set performance targets and let the supplier figure out how best to meet them. Is that the way monetary policy should...
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Disney World aside, the travel biz has never much catered to the needs of parents. But these days, with families accounting for roughly 75% of U.S. leisure travel and with a staggering 4.2 million ...
There's no better time to rediscover America. Not only will your U.S. dollars buy more in the U.S. than in Europe or the Orient, but you'll find an oversupply of bargain-priced hotel rooms, less ex...
As a Member of the United States Congress, I will introduce a bill that will allow parents who earn less than $40,000 and who contribute to the college tuition of their sons or daughters to deduct ...
Frightened by the prospect of unrelenting tuition inflation, nearly 160,000 parents have latched on to plans that allow them to prepay college tuition for their kids. Should you? While the principl...
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-- PETE WILLIAMS, 36, spokesman for Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney, on the state's love affair with ranching: ''There are a lot of sacred cows in Wyoming, and cows are one of them.''
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