Casper Ghost pitcher Jonathan Vargas throws to a Idaho Falls batter in the second inning Tuesday night. (Tim Kupsick/Star-Tribune)
James Alley, 19, studies in the library at Roosevelt High School in Casper. Alley, who had dropped out of school because of a drug and alcohol problem, is determined to finish his degree. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
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Back dropped by a map depicting the Amazon rainforest, Brazil´s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, gestures as Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, center, and the Environment Minister Carlos Minc talk during a ceremony in Brasilia, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The government announced a sharp drop in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon in September. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Back dropped by a map depicting the Amazon rainforest, Brazil´s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, gestures as Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, center, and the Environment Minister Carlos Minc talk during a ceremony in Brasilia, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The government announced a sharp drop in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon in September. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Back dropped by a map depicting the Amazon rainforest, Brazil´s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, gestures as Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, center, and the Environment Minister Carlos Minc talk during a ceremony in Brasilia, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. The government announced a sharp drop in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon in September. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Mike Stepp, left, and Ryan Stepp, right, drop caramel onto a sheet of pecans. (Dan Cepeda / Star-Tribune)
When the loose nuts are brushed off the pan, individual candies remain where the caramel was dropped. (Dan Cepeda / Star-Tribune)
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, shoppers visit a J.C. Penney store in New York. J.C. Penney Co. is reporting a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, because of a big expense to fund its pension plan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
In this photo made Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, a customer leaves a J.C. Penney store in Tallahassee, Fla. J.C. J.C. Penney Co. is reporting a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, because of a big expense to fund its pension plan.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, shoppers visit a J.C. Penney store in New York. J.C. Penney Co. is reporting a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, because of a big expense to fund its pension plan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
In this photo made Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, a customer leaves a J.C. Penney store in Tallahassee, Fla. J.C. J.C. Penney Co. is reporting a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, because of a big expense to fund its pension plan.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 file photo, shoppers visit a J.C. Penney store in New York. J.C. Penney Co. is reporting a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, because of a big expense to fund its pension plan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
In this photo made Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, a customer leaves a J.C. Penney store in Tallahassee, Fla. J.C. J.C. Penney Co. is reporting a 78 percent drop in its third-quarter earnings Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, because of a big expense to fund its pension plan.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)
Seth Trumbley, 6, of Colorado Springs, Col., prepares to drop a few coins into a Salvation Army red kettle on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The city is one of 30 nationwide to add card readers for donations with credit or debit cards as fewer shoppers carry cash. But so far, most donors continue dropping change or small bills in the kettles. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
Seth Trumbley, 6, of Colorado Springs, Col., prepares to drop a few coins into a Salvation Army red kettle on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The city is one of 30 nationwide to add card readers for donations with credit or debit cards as fewer shoppers carry cash. But so far, most donors continue dropping change or small bills in the kettles. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
Seth Trumbley, 6, of Colorado Springs, Col., prepares to drop a few coins into a Salvation Army red kettle on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. The city is one of 30 nationwide to add card readers for donations with credit or debit cards as fewer shoppers carry cash. But so far, most donors continue dropping change or small bills in the kettles. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)
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