Cowboy Poets; smartphone gluttons; lawmaker bio questioned
Odd and unusual news from around the West.
SAN DIEGO — A televangelist wants to build a Christian-themed resort in San Diego that includes fancy timeshare suites, a Biblical museum, hig…
PLACERVILLE, Calif. — A police pursuit of two men turned into a rescue mission after the men fled into a wooded area of El Dorado County and l…
DUBLIN, Calif. — Authorities say they have charged a jail inmate with solicitation of murder after he asked an undercover officer posing as a …
SEATTLE — A Washington state lawmaker who served in the Arizona Air National Guard has altered his official online biography after a newspaper…
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a former Belfry school clerk who admitted filing a false tax return as part of a scheme t…
PASADENA, Calif. — Pasadena police are searching for three burglars who shattered the glass front door of a store and snatched 90 smartphones.
THREE FORKS, Mont. — The Three Forks School District is facing potential fines of nearly $50,000 following a federal audit.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — Every academic program at the University of Wyoming Board will be reviewed to see if it needs restructuring or elimination.
RENO, Nev. — The state's highest court is ordering a former Washoe County school principal and the district that fired her to try and settle t…
SALT LAKE CITY — The organizers of Salt Lake Comic Con and San Diego Comic-Con may be on the verge of resolving an ongoing name-trademark dispute.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bernalillo County firefighters are trying to help two groups of hikers who became stranded in the Sandia Mountains.
BOISE, Idaho — Rows of slot-like gambling machines sit in empty betting parlors at Idaho's horse racing tracks. Employees once in charge of se…
RENO, Nev. (AP) — As troubadours, fiddlers and scribes head to northeast Nevada for a national gathering to celebrate cowboy poetry and cultur…
FARMINGTON, N.M. — A sobering center to help people with alcohol addiction in San Juan County is on track to open in less than two months.
PARK CITY, Utah — A Utah county reached an agreement Saturday with ride-sharing company Uber to stop operating helicopter flights at the Sunda…
MISSOULA, Mont. — Research in Montana finds that aggressively dealing with wolves that kill livestock works better than a gradual approach.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When the California Legislature passed the state's first comprehensive medical marijuana regulations in September, pot ad…
