Drainage path from rocket exhaust is the access point of contamination from the missiles. Soft soil and unknown effects of chemicals created a large area of contamination that has effected Cheyenne resident water wells. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
Chelsea Cook, 9, takes a dip in the Marion Kreiner swimming pool on Thursday afternoon. Photo by Sarah Beth Barnett/Casper Star-Tribune.
Jaron Curyea, a personal banker at Wells Fargo, shovels off fresh snow in front of the bank's office on Friday afternoon in downtown Casper. The National Weather Service in Riverton issued an extreme storm warning on Friday morning for a snow storm heading through central and southern Wyoming. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Jeffrey Smith makes his initial appearance in Circuit Court in Casper on Wednesday in connection with the murder of Tammy Dively in 1986. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
A skier on Teton Pass near Jackson, Wyo., makes tracks Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005, in some of the nearly 40 inches of powder that have fallen in the area over the new year's weekend. (AP Photo/Jackson Hole News & Guide, Angus M. Thuermer, Jr.)
Joelle Anthony helps Parker Phillips learn to skate Saturday afternoon during Casper Recreation Center's "Play All Day" event.
The influenza vaccine is now recommended for everyone from 6 months to 18 years, as well as everyone 50 and older. (Star-Tribune file photo)
Rescuers prepare to enter the site of Saturday's gas explosion for search and rescue at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
A man injured by a gas explosion at a mine receives treatment at a hospital in Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
Rescuers workers walk inside a tunnel of the state-run Xinxing mine in Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
Rescuers prepare to enter the site of Saturday's gas explosion for search and rescue at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
A man injured by a gas explosion at a mine receives treatment at a hospital in Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
Rescuers workers walk inside a tunnel of the state-run Xinxing mine in Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
Rescuers prepare to enter the site of Saturday's gas explosion for search and rescue at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
A man injured by a gas explosion at a mine receives treatment at a hospital in Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
Rescuers workers walk inside a tunnel of the state-run Xinxing mine in Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
Rescuers prepare to enter the site of Saturday's gas explosion for search and rescue at the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang province, China, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach tens of miners trapped underground Sunday. (AP Photo)
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