CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Laramie County School District has doubled the amount of money available for grants to encourage innovation.The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports (http://tinyurl.com/b2yld2p) … more

LANDER, Wyo.— Police and deputies have arrested a man accused of firing multiple shots into a pickup south of Lander. KOVE radio in Lander reports no one was injured in the shooting on Thursday. … more

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Standard & Poor's Ratings Services will continue to give Wyoming its AAA credit rating. It is the highest credit rating possible. S&P said the outlook for Wyoming is stable … more

LANDER, Wyo. — Aaron Peck of Grand Prairie, Alberta, has won the International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race in Wyoming. KOVE radio in Lander reports Peck and 17 other mushers crossed the … more

NEWCASTLE — Most people give directions with streets and numbers. Conrad Farnsworth gives GPS coordinates and satellite imaging maps. He’ll greet you in his driveway in his white lab coat, … more

RICHMOND, Va. — Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond … more

LEICESTER, England— He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled. Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found … more

NEW YORK — Super Bowl ads this year morphed into mini soap operas. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson shrugged off aliens so he could get more milk for his kids in a Super Bowl spot for the Milk … more

CHICAGO — It really does get better for gay and bisexual teens when it comes to being bullied, although young gay men have it worse than their lesbian peers, according to the first long-term … more

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Sunday that gays should be allowed in the Boy Scouts and women should be allowed in military combat roles, weighing in on two storied American institutions … more