2011

2011 was a wild year in the world of sports. Sadly, much of the drama occurred off the field and left many of us vainly searching for an answer to the question, “How could they have let this happen?” But fortunately, there were also a lot of great team and individual accomplishments to be enjoyed this year. GuySpee...

Seismic jolts shook 2011 — uprisings that set a whole region afire, natural disasters of historic destructiveness, the demise of icons. But again and again amid these world-changing convulsions, the mirror of a single face, or two or three, joyous, tormented, panicked or hopeful, brought the larger-than-life moments back to human scale...

NEW YORK (AP) — There were many kinds of best-sellers in 2011 and they sold in different ways. Some were meant for success, such as Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” or Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” or Stephen King’s “11/22/63.” Some were surprises, such as Todd Burpo’s “Heaven Is for Real” and Adam Mansbach’s “Go the (Bleep) to Sleep...

If you’re having a baby soon and want to avoid giving the child a name everyone else in his or her kindergarten class will have, you may want to check out BabyCenter’s list of this year’s most popular baby names.

If your hay is the top of the crop, you could send it to the "Suberbowl". The top five hay samples in the state hay show at the 2011 Wyoming State Fair will be sent to compete in the Forage Suberbowl Challenge at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. from Oct. 4-8.

The first farmer's market of the summer happily shut down Grand Avenue in the late afternoon on Friday. From July through September the Laramie Farmer's Market sets up between 3 pm and 7 pm in downtown Laramie. Vendors sold a variety of goods from fresh vegetables and salsa to ice cream and jewelry...

In his final days, Osama bin Laden was not a happy man. He felt al-Qaeda was killing too many Muslims, causing it to suffer a “marketing problem.” The West was winning the public relations war. So what was called for, he thought, was a new name.

In early June Andrew Zook spoke with David Settle and Jake Anfinson on Sportsline Live about a new program he has begun in Laramie called Wyoming Athlete Development. Zook is a certified personal trainer with over 20 years of strength training experience and is a member of the Laramie Police Department...