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"I hope this serves as a lesson to every American. Let's fix this system because the primary system is failing." Kinzinger said on CNN.

Trump could announce a 2024 run as early as this month, but some worry it would distract from the GOP's midterm messaging railing against Biden.

Petito disappeared on the couple’s trip in a converted van, with her slain body found Sept. 19 in a Wyoming national park.

Petito disappeared on the couple’s trip in a converted van, with her slain body found Sept. 19 in a Wyoming national park.

Rep. Liz Cheney found herself aligned with her four challengers on a few points but disagreed with them on issues like the legitimacy of the Jan. 6 committee and of the 2020 presidential election.

This is the second report in three days of bison attacking tourists in the park, and the third report in a month.

WYOMING, MI – An 11-year-old Grand Rapids boy was arrested on allegations of carjacking after a woman was attacked during an attempted car theft early Thursday in Wyoming. The assault and attempted carjacking was reported just before 6 a.m. Thursday, June 30, in the 3200 block of Woodward Avenue SW in Wyoming. Information given by the woman and witnesses led officers to quickly arrest one of the juveniles who had run from the scene of the attempted carjacking. The 11-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the assault and attempted car theft after a short foot pursuit, Wyoming police said. Wyoming police say it’s not yet known if this attempted carjacking is related to any other vehicle thefts of the same manufacturer.

The man had bear spray but the bear surprised him and he didn't have time to use it, the sheriff's statement said.

The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas sales from public lands since President Joe Biden took office.

Officials say it happened so fast he didn't get to use the bear spray he was carrying. He was brought by helicopter to a hospital in Billings, Montana.

KENT COUNTY, MI - A nonprofit in Wyoming has received additional funding to keep providing musical therapy programs to West Michigan seniors. The nonprofit recently got a $6,000 grant from The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) that will help expand its Life Enrichment and Music Therapy program by increasing live performances and opportunities for engagement. Music has been shown to improve quality of life as well as mood, cognition and longevity for seniors, the nonprofit said. Sarah Dwortz, development director for Senior Sing-A-Long, said she and her colleagues work with about 60 senior living communities in West Michigan and nearly 70 musicians. When called on, the musicians are sent out to the respective senior communities to bring entertainment.

Follow Josh VanDyke on TwitterThe Mona Shores baseball team poses with its GMAA Tier 1 championship trophy on May 7, 2022, at Marsh Field in Muskegon. The Mona Shores baseball team put together a memorable regular season with a school-record 30 wins and only five losses. The Sailors dominated the OK Green Conference in the process with a 20-1 record to clinch an outright share of the league championship. Reeths-Puffer finished runner-up in the final league standings at 17-4, while Zeeland East was third overall at 14-7. Below are the top performers from the 2022 OK Green Conference baseball season.

Strangers responding to a Facebook post showed up to help clean up a flooded home in Red Lodge, Montana after a massive flood at Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas (June 16) (AP video by Britanny Peterson)

Floodwaters that rushed through Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities earlier this week are moving through Montana's largest city, flooding farms and ranches and forcing the shutdown of its water treatment plant. (June 15)

Search and rescue teams used helicopters to locate and successfully evacuate people who were left stranded in the wake of historic floods that tore through Yellowstone National Park this week.

WYOMING, MI -- A man accused of shooting and killing his 2-year-old daughter in February has been deemed incompetent for trial. A judge made the determination during a hearing Wednesday, June 15 in Wyoming District Court. Seninta Parks, 26, is accused of killing Khalise Brewer at his Wyoming apartment in the 2400 block of Meyer Avenue SW on Feb. 9. He was taken to a Grand Rapids hospital and was released to the Kent County Jail after several days. Related: Fight erupts outside courthouse among those attending hearing for man accused of killing 2-year-oldWyoming District Court administrators said the ruling means Parks will continue to receive treatment at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry in Southeast Michigan, with hopes he can become competent.

Almost 6.5 million acres in 11 western states are permanently inaccessible to the general public because they're surrounded by private land. BLM director Tracy Stone-Manning wants to keep chipping away at them, acre by acre.

Yellowstone National Park officials say more than 10,000 visitors have been ordered out of the nation’s oldest national park after unprecedented flooding tore through its northern half, washing out bridges and roads and sweeping an employee bunkhouse miles downstream.

Vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, came out firing during the second day of hearings involving the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In her opening statement, Cheney made an unflattering reference to Rudy Giuliani, an advisor for former President Donald Trump. “Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night, and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani, to just claim that he won,” Cheney said. "An apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani" I'm dead. — Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 13, 2022“Apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani” - @RepLizCheney’s deadpan delivery of these zingers is reason enough to watch every single minute of the Jan 6 hearings.

A woman accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing man in Grand Teton National Park has been banned from the park for five years and must pay $17,600 in restitution.

A prime-time hearing airs a clip of Ivanka Trump rejecting her father's claim the election was stolen.

It was caught on surveillance video. She was wearing a mask and hooded shirt. A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to her arrest.

Looking for an epic family-friendly road trip? Look no further than the Black to Yellow route.

BAY CITY, MI — Recently moving from Wyoming to Michigan, a woman accused of causing a drunken crash in Bay City, fleeing the scene, and causing a second collision a block away has accepted a plea deal. In exchange, the prosecution agreed to dismiss charges of operating while intoxicated causing serious injury and third-offense operating while intoxicated. Paramedics placed Delaurentis in a neck brace, secured her to a cot, and took her to McLaren Bay Region hospital. I remember it was like a blur, so she must have been going fast.”Delaurentis’ uncle, a Bay City man, was also hospitalized. Records show Delaurentis was twice convicted of drunken driving offenses in Wyoming in May 2006 and April 2015.

This one was personal between the Republican House member and the MyPillow boss.

Her school’s principal, Kristina Martinez-Precious, talked about Joelin at a Wednesday, June 1 vigil for the teen, her 11-year-old sister and their 33-year-old mother. The couple were parents to the younger two, although Landa-Sanchez was the mother of all the children. Related: 2 children among 4 dead in suspected murder-suicide in Kent CountyThe principal said she initially was in shock after police called her to report the deaths. She described the girls’ mother, Liliana Landa-Sanchez, as someone who simply loved her girls. “She did everything she could to support her girls,” the principal said.

Police on Wednesday identified a Wyoming woman and her two children who were allegedly shot and killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself.

KENT COUNTY, MI – Police on Wednesday, June 1, identified a Wyoming woman and her two children who were allegedly shot and killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself. Liliana Landa-Sanchez, 33, and daughters, Joelin Hernandez-Landa, 13, and Ayzy Hernandez-Landa, 11, were found slain early Tuesday in their home on Godfrey Avenue SE, just south of Burton Street. Police believe that Oscar Moran-Hernandez, 43, who had two children with Landa-Sanchez, shot the woman and her daughters. Related: 2 children among 4 dead in suspected murder-suicide in Kent CountyThree other children, ages 2, 5, and 9, were in the house but not physically harmed, police said. The couple were parents to the younger two.

A semi truck rolled over and blocked all northbound lanes of the Lodge Freeway between Livernois and Wyoming avenues in Detroit.

Police say a man fatally shot his girlfriend and two of her daughters inside a western Michigan home before killing himself.

KENT COUNTY, MI – A man, woman and two girls were fatally shot early Tuesday, May 31, in a suspected murder-suicide in Wyoming, police said. The killings happened after a shooting in Mecosta County on Friday, May 27, in which police say that a 51-year-old shot and killed his wife and three children. The victims have been identified as Dawn Gillard, 40, and her children: Katelynn Gillard, 6, Ronald Gillard, 4, and Joshua Gillard, 3. The father is in critical condition after shooting himself, Mecosta County sheriff’s deputies said. Those killings happened on 180th Avenue south of Johnson Road in Mecosta County’s Austin Township.

Take in the sights and sounds from Bill Whitaker's 60 Minutes report on the longest-running cattle drive left in the U.S.

Police believe an overnight fire in Wyoming that damaged a building being renovated to house a new abortion clinic was deliberately set.

Aimed at serving a regional "abortion desert," the clinic plans to open, despite the expected overturn of Roe v. Wade. It's become a focal point for abortion debate in the state.

In downtown Jackson, Wyo., a small plot of land, 30 by 150 feet, produces 100,000 pounds of locally-sourced produce a year, thanks to a farm that soars in the air.

WYOMING, MI – Crews freed a driver and infant child from a vehicle earlier Thursday morning following a three-vehicle crash. The driver and child suffered serious injures in the May 19 crash, according to the Wyoming Police Department. Police responded to a 4:15 a.m. report of a crash involving a vehicle and a semi-tractor trailer at the intersection of 28th Street and Burlingame Avenue SW. A third vehicle was also struck during the crash while it was stopped on 28th Street, in the left turn lane, waiting to turn on Burlingame Avenue. The Wyoming Fire Department extricated the driver and infant in the northbound car on Burlingame Avenue.

WYOMING, MI -- A man was shot in an exchange of gunfire with four armed robbers who entered his home, the Wyoming Department of Public Safety reports. At approximately 6:10 p.m. on Monday, May 16, Wyoming officers responded to the 1900 block of Prairie Parkway SW on multiple calls about a shooting. Officers located a 23-year-old man who had been shot, Wyoming police said in a news release. Wyoming officers determined that the victim was shot during an armed robbery. The victim reportedly also shot at the suspects during the incident, however, it is unknown at this time if any of the suspects were struck by the gunfire, police said.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) apologized on Monday after she was booed by a crowd during a commencement address at the University of Wyoming for saying it is a “fundamental scientific truth” that there are only “two sexes.” Lummis said “it was never my intention to make anyone feel un-welcomed or disrespected,” and apologized to those…

Major energy producing states from Alaska to Pennsylvania are reaping a windfall from soaring oil and natural gas prices, stoked by the war in Ukraine and the U.S.-led ban on Russian oil imports.

Government budgets are booming in New Mexico: Teacher salaries are up, residents can go to an in-state college tuition-free, moms will get medical care for a year after childbirth, and criminal justice initiatives are being funded to reduce urban violence. New Mexico is the No. 2 crude oil producer among U.S. states and the top recipient of U.S. disbursements for fossil fuel production on federal land. State governments in the nation’s top regions for producing oil, natural gas and coal have by far the highest per-capita reliance on fossil fuels — led by Wyoming, North Dakota, Alaska and New Mexico.

There were no reports of damage or injuries.

There were no reports of damage or injuries.

It is easily one of the most recognized and beautiful national parks in all of the United States and this year Yellowstone celebrates being the named the first national park 150 years ago. You know about Old Faithful, you’ve seen the wildlife, and now it is very popular because of the series “Yellowstone.”

WYOMING, MI – Wyoming city leaders are considering several different property tax increase options to put before voters to fund about $6 million in annual public safety and parks needs. The income tax proposal failed May 3 by 6,055 votes to 2,823, or 68.2% to 31.8%, according to the official results from the Kent County Clerk’s Office. Related: Property tax increase, service cuts could be on table after Wyoming income tax proposal shot downWyoming voters on May 3 also narrowly approved a bond proposal from Wyoming Public Schools that won’t raise taxes as well as a proposal that would’ve reduced property taxes if the income tax measure passed. Some councilmembers expressed concern about putting another tax increase measure back before voters this November after they so recently shot down the income tax proposal. Regardless of whether a tax proposal ends up on the November or May ballot, it would go into effect summer 2023 if passed.

The National Park Service says Yellowstone’s bison are “so accustomed to cars and asphalt roads that they seem to know the right-of-way.”

The case was dismissed without prejudice, which means it can be refiled and brought back to court.

A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Alec Baldwin over online harassment filed by the family of a Wyoming Marine who was killed in Afghanistan.

WYOMING, MI – Service cuts or an increase in property taxes could be on the table after Wyoming voters Tuesday shot down a proposal to generate revenue with a new city income tax. The income tax proposal failed 6,055 votes to 2,824, or 68.2% to 31.8%, according to the unofficial results from the Kent County Clerk’s Office. Now that voters have shot down the income tax funding proposal, it will be up to the Wyoming City Council on how best to fund these gaps. Wyoming city officials previously said an alternative to the income tax is to increase the city’s property taxes by an additional 2.5 mills. Related: Proposed Wyoming income tax would hurt competitiveness, business community saysCity leaders could opt to neither cut services nor put additional property taxes on the ballot.

Police are looking for a missing 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since leaving the McDonald’s off of Wyoming in Dearborn.

WYOMING, MI – Wyoming voters on Tuesday rejected a proposed income tax. Related: Proposed Wyoming income tax would hurt competitiveness, business community saysThe income tax proposal was one of two measures that needed to pass to have them both go into effect. However, both the income tax proposal and the property tax proposal needed to pass for them both to take effect. Some area businesses say the proposed income tax came at the wrong time and would hurt their competitiveness. Wyoming woud have been the third city in Kent County to have an income tax.

WYOMING, MI - Voters in Wyoming Public Schools approved a 25-year, $24.9 million bond Tuesday to renovate the junior high school. Superintendent Craig Hoekstra told voters that renovating and partially reconstructing Wyoming Junior High School would bring the school up to modern learning standards. RELATED: Wyoming schools seeks $24.9M bond to renovate, modernize junior high on May 3 election ballotThe proposal on the May 3 election ballot passed by a vote of 2,066 to 1,930, according to unofficial election results from the Kent County Clerk’s Office. The measure did not require increasing the current tax rate of 5.65 mills. The school, located at 2125 Wrenwood St. SW, has not seen major improvements in nearly 43 years.

NOAA projects extreme heat and dryer conditions in June, July and August mostly covering Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho.

Noah went missing May 1 around 11:05 a.m. from a home inside Cutler Estates near Division Avenue South and M-6.

WYOMING, MI — “Go in peace my son.”Peter Lyoya spoke the words during the graveside service for his son Patrick on Friday. “God created you and he decided to take you away from us.” Peter Lyoya, Patrick’s father, said at the grave. At the end of the service, family members took fist fulls of soil and sprinkled it on the rose covered casket. Peter Lyoya wanted to honor his son with a proper burial, and he wanted the world to take notice. “I cannot wish this on another parent like me because my heart is broken,” Peter Lyoya said.

WYOMING, MI - Voters in Wyoming Public Schools will decide May 3 on a 25-year, $24.9 million bond to renovate the junior high school that officials say was constructed for a different era of teaching and learning. School leaders are educating the community on the election ballot language, emphasizing that a yes vote would not mean a tax rate increase. The bond request is for renovating and partially reconstructing Wyoming Junior High School, 2125 Wrenwood St. SW. “These funds would supplement the planned Junior High investment from the 2017 bond, enabling the district to transform the Junior High to the same degree as Wyoming High School,” Hoekstra said in a prepared statement about transforming that school into a state-of-the-art educational facility. While the $79.5 million school improvement bond included funds for renovations at the junior high, school leaders say they were not sufficient to fund the type of extensive makeover the high school received.

Harvard researchers are 99.999% certain the object was interstellar. But their paper on the finding was being turned down, because the pair only had a private conversation with an anonymous U.S. government employee to confirm the accuracy of the data.

Residents of Wyoming, Connecticut and New York lead the nation in getting bigger checks from the IRS. Here's why.

The Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce and seven Wyoming businesses, including Gordon Food Service, co-signed a letter opposing the creation of the income tax in Wyoming. If approved, Wyoming would be the third city in Kent County to have an income tax. While an income tax might not be a deal breaker for some employees, Genautis said it will reduce the competitiveness of Wyoming businesses and add to the ongoing employee shortage woes. Genautis said some current and prospective employees might lobby for higher pay to offset the income tax as well. For an individual earning $60,000 a year and living in Wyoming, the proposed income tax translates to about $464 each year.

Almost all of the eagles killed at the NextEra subsidiary's facilities were struck by the blades of wind turbines, prosecutors said.

NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to charges over the deaths of eagles at three of its wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.

A wind energy company was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay more than $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed over the past decade at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a Tuesday court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It was charged in the deaths of eagles at three of its wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.

BNSF’s two largest unions will ask an arbitrator to throw out the railroad’s strict new attendance policy instead of appealing a court order preventing them from striking.

Trayce Jackson-Davis had 29 points and nine rebounds, Jordan Geromino scored a career-high 15 points and Indiana beat turnover-prone Wyoming 66-58 in a First Four game.

There truly is an app for everything, including roadkill in Wyoming.

The parents of Gabby Petito claim in a new Florida lawsuit that Brian Laundrie told his parents he had killed her when he returned home alone from their ill-fated western trip in a converted van.

A federal judge has extended an order preventing the two largest unions at BNSF from going on strike over a new attendance policy the railroad imposed this month.

Police in West Michigan are investigating what they are calling a “random” stabbing at a Meijer store in Wyoming.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is endorsing a primary challenger to GOP Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming.

South Carolina remains one of only two states without a hate crimes law, and proponents worry that efforts in the Legislature are stalling to increase penalties for crimes committed against minorities and others victimized by prejudice.

Liz Cheney continues to set fundraising records in her bid for reelection to Wyoming's lone U.S. House seat.

Bitter cold conditions are responsible for causing 75 active water main breaks in Detroit, including one today (Jan. 26) that shut down I-94.Traffic has been stopped along westbound I-94 while work crews shut off the water main that sprung a leak, sending water gushing down the freeway.

Road commissions in Metro Detroit are mobilizing to deal with what is likely going to be some sloppy road conditions.

Levi Williams ran for 200 yards and four touchdowns and passed for 127 yards and another touchdown to lead Wyoming to a 52-38 win over Kent State in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Montana officials are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to lift threatened species protections for grizzly bears in the northern part of the state.

A small city in the top U.S. coal-mining state of Wyoming will be home to a Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power project near a coal-fired power plant scheduled to close soon.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming says former President Donald Trump is at war “with the rule of law and the Constitution” and that GOP lawmakers who sit by silently are aiding his efforts.

A prosecutor in a deeply conservative corner of Wyoming says he won't charge library employees for making sex education and LGBTQ-themed books available to young people.

Tumbling COVID-19 case counts have some schools around the U.S. considering relaxing their mask rules, but deaths nationally have been ticking up over the past few weeks.

Authorities say remains found in a Florida wilderness park are those of Brian Laundrie, who was a person of interest in the death of girlfriend Gabby Petito.

Rapper, music producer and clothing entrepreneur Kanye West is selling his ranch and business properties in northwestern Wyoming.

Prosecutors in Wyoming are evaluating whether to file criminal charges against officials at a public library for stocking books some say are obscene in sections for children and teenagers.

Republicans are using money from the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package for projects on conservatives' wish lists.

The disappearance of Gabby Petito has drawn a frenzy of coverage and brought new attention to a phenomenon known as “missing white woman syndrome.”.

Authorities say a body discovered Sunday in Wyoming is believed to be Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito.

Donations are pouring in for the widow and unborn child of a U.S. Marine from Wyoming killed in a bombing in Afghanistan.

Asian stocks are slipping following a charge on Wall Street which drove indices to all-time highs for the second straight day.

U.S. officials have launched a review of climate damage from coal mining on public lands as the Biden administration expands scrutiny of government fossil fuel sales that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.

Some local Republican Party officials in Wyoming have announced that they will no longer recognize Liz Cheney as a party member because of her vote to impeach Donald Trump.

Police in west Michigan handcuffed a real estate agent, his client and that man’s 15-year-old son after a neighbor wrongly reported that the three Black people were breaking into a home.

Police in west Michigan handcuffed a real estate agent, his client and that man’s 15-year-old son after a neighbor wrongly reported that the three Black people were breaking into a home.

Former U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming was remembered as an honorable statesman and family man who was focused on leadership, tradition and faith.

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The hiker, a woman from Ann Arbor, was airlifted to Eastern Idaho Medical Center in Idaho Falls after the incident, reported the Jackson Hole & Daily.

The U.S. Supreme Court won't allow Wyoming and Montana to sue Washington state for denying a key permit to build a coal export dock.

Yellowstone National Park visitors are encountering warmer temperatures and less snow as climate change alters its world-renowned environment.

Dangerous, record-busting heat is spreading across the U.S. Southwest and into parts of Utah, Montana and Wyoming.

Elected officials in Wyoming aren’t sticking their necks out in defense of Liz Cheney as she faces ouster from House GOP leadership.

Most states are encouraging renewable energy but a new program in Wyoming does the opposite.

Liz Cheney calls speculation by former President Donald Trump that she won’t seek re-election next year “wishful thinking.”.

YouTube personality, businessman and musician Jeffree Star was hospitalized after a car crash in Wyoming.