Meth tears social fabric of Rez

By ANGIE WAGNER
AP national writer

Filed 4.30.07

WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- Just off the deserted highways, the silver pickup truck eases down quiet streets, its driver offering a numbing tour of a remote reservation framed by the beauty of snowcapped mountains.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Casper Star-Tribune)

Beltway pols: poised to be rocked by sex scandal

BREAKING..."And now ladies, gentlemens, kinky ankle-grabbers among you included, the crème brulle of Washington's ongoing whorefest merry-go-round: high-class hookers turning out slutty pol-cats for fast cash..."AT LEAST ONE BUSHIE caught with pants down in Madame Julia's cat house-for-hire romp-o-rama!

By SUE ANNE PRESSLEY MONTES

Washington Post Staff Writer

Filed 4.29.07

"Miz Julia" doled out a steady stream of advice, both practical and philosophical.

From her California home, she e-mailed tips to the 132 women who worked across the Washington area for the firm Pamela Martin & Associates. Her newsletters, now excerpted in court records, were a virtual how-to manual for avoiding all kinds of trouble in a business said to specialize in erotic fantasies.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Washington Post)

Photo caption & credits: "Deborah Jeane Palfrey, who says she ran a legal escort service, and public defender A.J. Kramer confer after a U.S. District Court appearance in March." (By Kevin Clark for The Washington Post)

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Brian Williams: Genuine Newsman or Neo-Con Goon for G.E.?

Some freely available MEDIA ANALYSIS

MSNBC debate questions on Iraq, immigration, and national security based on false premises

WATCH VIDEO: You make the call

Via Media Matters

Filed 4.26.07

While moderating the April 26 Democratic presidential debate on MSNBC, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams falsely suggested that the so-called Feingold-Reid Bill would mandate that all U.S. troops be removed from Iraq by "about a year from now." In fact, the bill introduced by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and co-sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and eight other senators would allow the continued deployment of U.S. troops in Iraq for three "limited purposes." In addition, questions posed later in the debate contained falsehoods about public opinion on immigration and national security.

(Click & Watch VIDEO or Read on courtesy of Media Matters)

Ex-Chief spook's book assails Cheney on Iraq

By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
The New York Times

Filed 4.27.07

WASHINGTON, April 26 — George J. Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, has lashed out against Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new book, saying they pushed the country to war in Iraq without ever conducting a “serious debate” about whether Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to the United States.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The New York Times)

3 Guzzlers torched, officials suspect arson

ARSONISTS TORCH 3 GAS GUZZLERS

By GIL BRADY
The Cowboy Times

Filed 4.27.09, 2:11 p.m., MST

Updated 4.27.09, 7:58 p.m., MST

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JACKSON (CT) – Arsonists struck early and often Thursday morning, causing firefighters and police to battle three separate car fires that incinerated all three vehicles and a portion of a home, according to Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Chief Rusty Palmer.

Palmer said firefighters answered their first call around 3 a.m. behind Jackson Whole Grocer where they found a Range Rover ablaze. While still suppressing the first fire at 4:19 a.m., emergency responders were drawn to a second vehicle, a Dodge Ram truck, whose flames charred one side of a rental cabin on Budge Drive above Sidewinders Tavern while bubbling the passenger door to a sports car parked beside it before being extinguished.

At 6:01 a.m., the chief said, police and fire crews responded to a third torched car, an older model SUV, burning by Jackson Hole Brake & Alignment near where the first fire had started.

Palmer believed the third incident may actually have been started closer to the first, but drew the attention of firemen later because of its slower ignition rate. A neighbor who lived near where the Dodge was incinerated said the truck's owner claimed not to have any enemies.

Inside the gutted truck: the remains of a Game & Fish manual behind the naked springs of an ash-strewn seat.

As of late Friday, no injuries or arrests were reported in connection with any of the suspicious fires and officials said they were investigating each as arson.

“We're still examining photos and burn patterns,” Palmer said when asked if anyone reported explosions during the fires and whether he thought the three were related.

Though authorities roused the cabin's occupant and cleared them safely from the scene, police say whoever started that fire could face a charge of attempted homicide. Tipsters are encouraged to call 733.5148. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

Photo captions & credits: "Aftermath of one arson on Budge Drive, overlooking Broadway in Jackson, Wyo., pictured are an incinerated Dodge Ram truck, a sports car parked beside, and a partially damaged rental cabin" By Andrew Wyatt for The Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times

Will Rice blow off Waxman's subpoena?

By MATTEW LEE
The Associated Press

Filed 4.26.07

OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has already answered the questions she has been subpoenaed to answer before a congressional committee and suggested she is not inclined to comply with the order.

(Click & Read on courtesy of Access North)

Geeks discover 'earth-like' planet, no word on whether they take Master Card or Visa

By SETH BORENSTEIN
The Associated Press

Filed 4.24.07

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."

(Click & Read on courtesy of MyWay)

Artwork Caption & Credit: This artists rendering released by European Southern Observatory, shows the planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581 For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially as habitable as Earth, at left, with similar temperatures, researchers announced Tuesday, April 24, 2007. (AP Photo/ESO)

Feds to probe 'Turd Blossom'

By TOM HAMBURGER
The Los Angeles Times

Filed 4.24.07

WASHINGTON — Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in with reprimands and other routine administrative actions for such offenses as discriminating against military personnel or engaging in prohibited political activities.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Los Angeles Times)

How the frogs do it

France opts for left-right battle

Via the BBC

Centre-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy will face Socialist Segolene Royal in the run-off of France's presidential election on 6 May.

With all the votes counted in Sunday's first round, Mr Sarkozy had 31%. Ms Royal, bidding to be France's first woman leader, got nearly 26%.

Centrist Francois Bayrou had 18%, and far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen almost 11%.

Voting reached near-record levels, with turnout put at almost 85% - the highest for nearly 50 years.

Disillusionment with politicians and their promises did not translate into apathy, reports the BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Paris.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the BBC)

Kentucky Fried Hillary Strikes Again!

BREAKING...VIDEO...!

Via YouTube

CLICK HERE & WATCH as Hillary dons her best Auntie Pearl, pandering on angel dust...

Is Gonzo cooked?

GOP support for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continues to erode

By RICHARD B. SCHMITT and RICHARD SIMON
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

Filed 4.21.07

WASHINGTON — Republican support for Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales continued to evaporate Friday as the party's third-ranking leader in the House and an influential senator said Gonzales should consider resigning.

A day after failing to mollify members of the Senate Judiciary Committee over his handling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, Gonzales launched a last-ditch effort to save his job in phone calls to congressional leaders. But the tide of opinion on Capitol Hill appeared to be turning against him.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Los Angeles Times)

Who's 'lost'?

By ANNE FLAHERTY
The Associated Press

Filed 4.19.07

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is "lost," triggering an angry backlash by Republicans, who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops. The bleak assessment - the most pointed yet from Reid - came as the House voted 215-199 to uphold legislation ordering troops out of Iraq next year.

Reid said he told President Bush on Wednesday he thought the war could not be won through military force, although he said the U.S. could still pursue political, economic and diplomatic means to bring peace to Iraq.

(Click & Read on courtesy of MyWay)

Photo captions & credits: "Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi; President George Bush; & Sen. Harry Reid" via The Associated Press

Edwards' cut has barbers pulling their hair out

By BILL WUNDRAM
The Quad-City Times

Filed 4.19.07

Quad-City barbers put down their shears and sputtered words like “preposterous” and “impossible” Wednesday when they heard of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spending $400 for a haircut. In the Quad-Cities, $10 or $12 is about average. “If I charged $400 for a haircut, they’d come after me with white coats,” said Leo Fier, who has been cutting hair for 49 years at his shop in DeWitt, Iowa.

(Click & Read on courtesy of Quad-City Times)

Sticking it to the Sick & the Elderly

By ROBERT PEAR
The New York Times

Filed 4.18.07

WASHINGTON, April 18 — A pillar of the Democratic political program tumbled today when Republicans in the Senate blocked a proposal to allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for millions of older Americans, a practice now forbidden by law.

Democrats could not muster the 60 votes needed to take up the legislation in the face of staunch opposition from Republicans, who said that private insurers and their agents, known as pharmacy benefit managers, were already negotiating large discounts for Medicare beneficiaries.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The New York Times)

Is your county attorney doing the job?

A freely available OPINION

Wyoming's Legislature has made the position of county attorney more appealing to potential candidates in the next general election, but it should do even more to attract top-notch legal talent.

The state's county attorney system is under more scrutiny than usual, after county commissioners in Platte County hired an investigator to examine complaints against County Attorney Mary Eikenberry.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)

Blacksburg bloodbath: Worst gunman massacre in U.S. history

BREAKING...VIDEO...!

Paper reports 33 now confirmed dead in Va. Tech spree killing

Via The Roanoke Times

7:48 p.m.

Tech police Chief Wendell Flinchum said police had made a preliminary identification of the shooter but were not releasing the identity at a press conference that is currently happening. He also said that two weapons had been recovered but declined to say what they were.

7:06 p.m.

Norris Hall, where 31 of today's 33 victims died and 15 more were injured, is a crime investigation scene tonight. Police block passersby from approaching closer than Burruss Hall, Virginia Tech's main administrative building that sits between Norris and the Drillfield.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Roanoke Times)

W.'s $1 billion doesn't keep kids' pants on

By ED PILKINGTON
The Guardian

Filed 4.16.07

New York- It's been a central plank of George Bush's social policy: to stop teenagers from having sex. More than $1billion of federal money has been spent on promoting abstinence since 1998 - posters printed, television adverts broadcast and entire education programs devised for hundreds of thousands of girls and boys.

The trouble is, new research suggests that it hasn't worked. At all.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Guardian)

Photo Captions & Credits: Research shows the US chastity programme, for which teenagers receive silver rings, has no influence on any future decision to have sex. Photograph: Jonathan Dyer/AP

Public wants gassy fat cats to take it easy on Pinedale development

By WHITNEY ROYSTER
Casper Star-Tribune

Filed 4.15.07

JACKSON - No one who spoke during four open houses hosted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management said they backed the agency's plan for energy development in the Pinedale area.

The BLM's preferred alternative is to allow a mixture of oil and gas development while making some areas off limits to drilling and related activity.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)

Hillary's school gal pals sound off

"Mirror, mirror on the wall...who's the gal with the most gall to best us all?"

By TAMAR LEWIN
The New York Times

Filed 4.14.07
For her Wellesley classmates, Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the first female president is a generational mirror. Some like what they see; others are less certain.

They were there for her fiery commencement speech, delivered at the height of the Vietnam War, when she described her class’s search for a “more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living” and said that every protest was “unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age.” The speech landed Hillary Rodham in the spotlight as a celebrated archetype of a new generation of women.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The New York Times)

Photo Captions & Credits: "One way groovy cool Hillary Rodham Clinton during her Wellesley undergrad days, check out those trippy pants," courtesy of on-line stock

Are GOP good ol'boys hiding the ball from Dumbocrats?

Controversy escalates over missing e-mails

GOP officials say they're still searching for messages related to investigations of Bush administration. Democrats focus on Karl Rove.

By TOM HAMBURGER and RICHARD A. SERRANO
LA Times Staff Writers

Filed 4. 13. 07

WASHINGTON — The growing controversy over White House record-keeping and disclosure swirled around presidential advisor Karl Rove on Thursday, as congressional Democrats said they were told that some e-mails that Rove sent from a Republican National Committee account were missing.

After a meeting between RNC lawyers and congressional investigators, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) said he learned that Rove might have deliberately deleted them himself.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The LA Times)

Gay by Design?

Does what we drive indicate how we swing?

By ALEX WILLIAMS
The New York Times

Filed 4.12.07

RON GEREN, an actor in Los Angeles, commutes to auditions and jobs throughout Southern California in a sleek black Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible. But for a recent date with a woman, he rented a Cadillac Escalade because he was so used to friends saying his Miata is “gay.”

“Guys say, ‘Hey, that’s cute,’ ” Mr. Geren, 40, said, adding that the comments come from gay as well as straight men. “You have to fend off that perception.”

(Click & Read on courtesy of The New York Times)

Buy or Rent?

Is it better to buy a home or pay as you go?

For many Americans renting is better than buying.

Find out where you stand...

(Click & Read on courtesy of The New York Times)

'Nappy-headed' I-man in the doghouse, yos!

A freely available OPINION

Misogyny in the Morning

By EUGENE ROBINSON
The Washington Post

Filed 4.10.07

What would possess nappy-headed radio host Don Imus to think "nappy-headed hos" was an amusing way to describe the Rutgers University women's basketball team? Why would it occur to him to say such a thing even in private conversation, much less to millions of listeners on CBS Radio and the MSNBC cable network?

The simple answer would be -- all together now -- racism. Imus employed that horribly offensive phrase against young black women who are students at a great university and who also happen to be superb athletes. If I had a daughter on that team, I'd want to slap that cowboy hat right off Imus's unkempt head.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The Washington Post)

Photo Captions & Credits: Don Imus repeated his apology on the Rev. Al Sharpton's radio show this week. (By Richard Drew -- Associated Press)

Our evolving western economy

By JOE KERKVLIET
NewWest.net

Filed 4.09.07

Recent Congressional testimony on the “Evolving West” showed that western whiskey is for drinking, but western economies are for fighting. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and Big Sky state Congressman Denny Rehberg sparred on Capitol Hill over the choice of an “old” economy built on resource extraction or a “new” economy built on clean environments, natural amenities, and renewable nature services. Part of their disagreement is more apparent than real.

(Click & Read on courtesy of NewWest)

Homeless homicide in Sublette County: How a dead man spent his last night alive in Jackson

DEVELOPING....

By GIL BRADY
The Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times

Filed 4.05.07, 9:35 p.m., MST
Updated 4.06.07, 7:45 a.m., MST
Updated 4.06.07, 7:55 p.m., MST
Last update 4.09.07, 7:45 a.m., MST

JACKSON – Nothing so far revealed about the days and months before a drifter was found struck violently dead in a road outside Bondurant Tuesday evening suggests he was lucky.

From the brutal blows officials say killed him to the troubled life he reportedly ditched in northern California and recent run-ins with Jackson police, Richard Nystrom’s final days of strife and wandering were dead-on unlucky. Even the bunk he spent his last night alive in sounded fated: Number 13 at the Good Samaritan Mission on Pearl Street in Jackson, according to an innkeeper there.

“I’m fighting a spiritual battle,” assistant mission director Victor Scardella remembered last Thursday about what a man claiming to be Nystrom told him after checking in on the evening of Monday, April 2.

Scardella added that Nystrom said he had traveled from Ukiah, California—some 975 miles southwest of Teton County, Wyoming.

Sublette County authorities say a sheriff’s deputy on a property check patrol around 11:35 p.m. Tuesday discovered a 54-year old white male later identified as Richard Dean Nystrom.

The mortally bashed body was found about 48 miles south of Jackson and some ways off Highway 191 on the well-traveled Rim Road, which leads to the Hoback Ranches subdivision roughly 14 miles south of Bondurant and 32 miles north of Pinedale.

Law enforcement immediately suspected foul play in Nystrom’s unusual death. On Friday an autopsy revealed for the first time that he died of “blunt force trauma to the head and face.”

But officials who viewed the post-mortem photos say they weren’t even that pretty.

Between his arriving in Wyoming and dying here, Jackson police and other authorities say that officers reported contact with Nystrom this past week for such oddities as disorderliness to strange acts outside a local saloon. But none said Nystrom’s behavior was threatening to himself or others.

According to Scardella, police dropped Nystrom back off at the shelter after he had left to "do laundry or something" between 2 and 3 a.m. Tuesday morning. Following a minor disturbance in the mission dormitory, Scardella said Nystrom caught some sleep, got up early, passed on a “continental breakfast” and thanked him before departing around 7:30 a.m., April 3.

Witnesses reported seeing Nystrom next around 9 a.m. at the Phillips 66 gas station on Broadway in Jackson, then later in the day at Hoback Junction and walking several miles south last Tuesday on Hwy 191 after 6:30 p.m. Sublette County Sheriff Wayne "Bardy" Bardin told Casper Star-Tribune reporter Whitney Royster that he had heard Nystrom was even trying to hitch a ride on both sides of the road at one point. The sheriff also said that Nystrom's family, of which Nystrom told Scardella before he died that he didn't have any, had been contacted.

Maybe he was estranged from them; maybe life had become too strange for him to ever know for sure? Sheriff Bardin declined to pass judgment on Nystrom's mental status.

While discussing recent budget shortfalls at the mission that have made providing even milk difficult, Scardella recalled Nystrom departing last Tuesday without any baggage but wearing slacks and a light jacket.

“His knuckles were messed up, like he was beating them on brick walls, Scardella noticed as the homeless man writhed Monday night.

“I asked him what he did for a trade and he said: ‘I preach and teach the Gospel’. I told him, well, that was nice. We try and do that here too and that everyone gets 7 free days out of every six months, provided they get a job and obey the rules.”

Besides his love of the Gospel, the Mendocino, Calif., County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Friday that a man with Nystrom's name and age also had a fondness for living it up in public and had recently skipped a court date and jumped $25,000 bail for two charges of drunken and disorderly last February. According to Nevada authorities, Nystrom was wanted on a warrant there as of last Monday as well.

Nystrom’s California rap sheet described him as 5-foot-10, 150 pounds, and having gray hair. Scardella has said his hair was "salt-and-pepper".

Looking over a mission registry Thursday, Scardella recalled when asked about his family, Nystrom said: “I don’t have nobody.”

“He still had six free days when he left,” Scardella said. “I even kept a bed for him.”

Nystrom is the second Highway 191 hitchhiker to be savagely killed in the last 10 months. Last Oct.1, sightseers discovered the body of Colorado snowboarder and seasonal Jackson resident Benjamin “Ben” Bradley, about 25 miles outside of Rock Springs, Wyo., near a volcano ruin known as Boar’s Tusk. Bradley had been stabbed to death. Witnesses reported last seeing the 6-foot-3 Bradley after 9 p.m., two days before his 29^th birthday June 4, hitchhiking with his snowboard and a backpack northbound on Hwy. 191

Bradley and Nystrom were found about 130 miles apart--Nystrom 6 months and two days later.

As of late Friday, law enforcement had not reported identifying suspects or making arrests in connection with either killing. They have also not said what kind of weapon was used to strike Nystrom dead. Tipsters who may have seen a man fitting Nystrom’s description hitchhiking on Hwy 191, south of Hoback Junction, between 6 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on April 3 can call the Sublette County Sheriff's Office at (307) 367.4378

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Photo Captions & Credits: "Good Samaritan Mission on Pearl Street in Jackson, Wyo." courtesy of the Good Samaritan Mission

How's "the surge" going?

Some freely available war analysis

By THOMAS RICKS
The Washington Post

Filed 4.08.07

There are two Iraq wars being waged, according to military officers on the ground and defense experts: the one fought in the streets of Baghdad, and the war as it is perceived in Washington.

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who took over as the top U.S. commander in Iraq in February, cited the disparity last week. "The Washington clock is moving more rapidly than the Baghdad clock," he said in a television interview. "So we're obviously trying to speed up the Baghdad clock a bit and to produce some progress on the ground that can, perhaps . . . put a little more time on the Washington clock."

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Washington Post)

Energy-industry ties up EQC board

By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER
Star-Tribune energy reporter

Filed 4.7.07

In making his most recent appointees to the state Environmental Quality Council, Gov. Dave Freudenthal said he didn't consider whether some of the new members would face a conflict in participating in water-discharge hearings.

According to federal code of regulations, all three new appointees to the seven-member citizen board must recuse themselves from all cases that involve National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Program permits -- a key element to current oil and gas development in Wyoming, and nearly half of the cases that come before the council.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)

What's going on with Alpine's water?

By WHITNEY ROYSTER
Star-Tribune environmental reporter

Filed 4.7.07

JACKSON -- Alpine officials said Friday there is no "imminent health and safety concern" to the public because of problems at the town's wastewater treatment plant.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)

Drilling the hell out of Paradise?

By WHITNEY ROYSTER
Star-Tribune Environmental Reporter

Filed 4.3.07


JACKSON -- Scientists and environmental groups' consultants say a proposal to dramatically increase natural gas drilling on the Pinedale Anticline is rushed and lacks assurances the environment will be protected.

Industry representatives, meanwhile, say the intense, year-round development would allow extraction of gas to be over more quickly, meaning areas could be reclaimed faster. They also say their plans call for use of technologies and practices intended to reduce impact to the environment.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)

Enviros prevail before high court, but will their science kickass or be stood on its head?

By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The New York Times

Filed 4.2.07

WASHINGTON, April 2 — In one of its most important environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases in automobile emissions.

The court further ruled that the agency cannot sidestep its authority to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change unless it can provide a scientific basis for its refusal.

The 5-to-4 decision was a strong rebuke to the Bush administration, which has maintained that it does not have the right to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and even if it did, it would not use the authority. The ruling does not force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate auto emissions, but it would almost certainly face further legal action if it fails to do so.

(Click & Read on courtesy of The New York Times)

'There's no magic DNA bullet'

Bradley murder investigation could go before grand jury

By GIL BRADY
Star-Tribune correspondent

Filed 4.01.07

JACKSON -- The six-month investigation into the slaying of snowboarder Benjamin “Ben” Bradley could go before a grand jury regardless of the findings of clues gathered from his remains, Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Lt. Bob Myzel indicated this week.

"At this point there’s no magic DNA bullet,” Myzel said when asked whether blood evidence seized from one-time suspect Tommy Bowman’s apartment had proved conclusive.

The lieutenant added that pending analysis by the state’s crime lab of evidence collected from Bradley’s body, clothes and other sources could shed new light on how the well-traveled adventurer died.

Last spring, after hitchhiking over half of the 485-mile journey between his Tabernash, Colo., summer home and his Jackson get-a-way, Bradley vanished outside Rock Springs, two days before his 29th birthday on June 4.

On Oct. 1, nearly four months later, tourists discovered Bradley’s mummified remains beside a Red Desert volcano core known as Boar’s Tusk. Missing among Bradley’s few possessions were his prized snowboard and sturdy backpack.

Friends say Bradley rented a room in Jackson and loved to spend his winters “carving snow” in the mountains. On June 2, 2006, Jesse Meunier says, Bradley left a cell phone message around 9 p.m. asking if someone could drive to Pinedale, about two hours north of Rock Springs, to pick him up.

“We were heading for a party in Kelly,” Meunier said recently. “But I told him: ‘Just give us a call back, and we’ll see if someone can come get you.’ But he never called back.”

After Bradley failed to make his scheduled birthday bash of snowboarding in the Tetons, his friends became suspicious and drove from Jackson to Rock Springs, hanging missing-person posters of Bradley along U.S. Highway 191.

Witnesses later reported spotting the 6-foot-3 Bradley in the Rock Springs area toting a snowboard and flashing a sign that read, “Jackson.” According to the National Center for Missing Adults’ Web site, a man matching Bradley’s description was seen running across a parking lot toward Highway 191 “as if he was getting a ride.”

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)

Photo Captions & Credits: 1) "Ben Bradley about 1 month before he vanished on June 2, 2006," courtesy of S.W.C.S.O.; 2) Detail of Bradley's one-of-a-kind, "Never Summer" snowboard" courtesy of official sources; 3) "Former prime murder suspect Tommy Bowman, last November," courtesy of FOX-TV

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NIT Champs!

By SCOTT ALLEN
Star-Tribune staff writer

LARAMIE -- Wyoming head coach Joe Legerski grabbed a microphone, looked toward the rafters at the Arena-Auditorium and bellowed.

"You’re awesome!"

A sellout crowd of 15,462 -- most dressed in UW gold -- roared back in approval.

(Click & Read on courtesy of the Casper Star-Tribune)