Steve Cobb poses with a high quality helmet next to his dirt bike at his home in Douglas last week. Cobb has become a strong supporter of bike helmets after being injured in a street bike accident near Sheridan last year. Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Field engineer Mike Sauers measures and marks the area for trucks to dump loads of gravel on the old Tipperary Road near Buffalo in Johnson County on Monday. Johnson County is using state grant money to reapply gravel designed to withstand the extra punishment caused by increased truck travel from the energy business. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Casper Star-Tribune
Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune A car travels east on U.S. Highway 20/26 near Moneta in eastern Fremont County Monday evening. The Wyoming Department of Transportation says it needs $250 million more per year to properly maintain the state highway system, but proposals to boost highway funding have not fared well so far this legislative session.
Wyoming's Chris Prosinski, left, tackles David Leonard during the team's scrimmage on Saturday morning. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Caretaker Harold Rollins shows how a third-floor stairway door that was new in 2007 now won't shut in the low-income Springview Manor Apartments in Rock Springs. (Jeff Gearino, Star-Tribune)
New leaves emerge on a young cottonwood tree along the banks of fast-flowing Lake Creek, a tributary of the Snake River, in Grand Teton National Park recently. (Mark Gocke/Star-Tribune correspondent)
Casper Oiler Martin Vasquez runs for first during their game against Cheyenne on Monday afternoon at Mike Lansing Field in Casper. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.
Lacey Schulke of Newell, S.D., unloads boxes to take into her new residence hall at Sheridan College. Nine new buildings add 86 more beds to the campus. Photo by Lisa Bisbee, Star-Tribune correspondent.
UW's Karsten Sween yells for a play in the first half of the game against San Diego State. Photo by Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune
Wyoming's Brad Jones tries to shoot over San Diego State's Ryan Amoroso on Tuesday in Laramie. Photo by TIM KUPSICK, Star-Tribune.
Students and their families tour the new student housing at Sheridan College while workers continue to perform cleanup and final preparation as students move in to the nine new buildings. Photo by Lisa Bisbee, Star-Tribune correspondent.
President Bush meets with the nation's governors during their annual winter meeting in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2005. Education, Social Security, and Medicaid, the state-federal health care program for the poor, have been the focus of the governors' concerns. A painting of Abraham Lincoln is seen in the background. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, sits at a piano in his Capitol Hill office in this May 6, 1997 file photo. Hatch, a musician in his own right, helped secure the release of Atlanta R&B producer Dallas Austin from a Dubai jail after a drug conviction, his office confirmed Saturday July 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Cameron Craig, File)
People stand outside a train coach that was destroyed in a bomb blast in Bombay, India, Tuesday, July 11, 2006. Seven explosions rocked Bombay's commuter rail network during Tuesday evening rush hour, ripping apart train compartments, a railway spokesman said. At least 20 people were killed, police said. (AP Photo / Press Trust of India)
Townsfolk from the mystical town of Brigadoon sing in a scene from the Lerner and Loewe musical, "Brigadoon." The Scottish town emerges from the mist only one day every 100 years due to an enchantment placed upon it 200 years ago. The Casper College Department of Theatre and Dance is staging the show the next few weeks. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.
Brigadoon townsfolk do a pole dance at the wedding of Jean MacLaren and Charlie Dalrymple in the Casper College production of "Brigadoon." Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune
Kelly Walsh's Carly Hooker returns a hit during the #1 doubles tennis match in the Tennis Cup Classic against Natrona at Washington Park on Friday afternoon.(Kerry Huller, Star-Tribune)
Photos by Tim Kupsick Model: Heather Potter
United Way of Natrona County executive director Shanna Harris speaks during a luncheon on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, at the Casper Events Center in Casper, Wyo. (Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune)
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