As a winter storm rolls into the prarie, Katie Painter bridles her 9-year-old son Thomas's horse before they look for some steers that had gotten out near Painter's home in the rural Moorcroft area. Painter, one of nine single mothers who completed a training program in electrical, plumbing and other industrial systems through Laramie County Community College last June, works for a construction company in Gillette.
Photo by Ryan Soderlin, Star-Tribune
Justin Atwood, cadet appointee, is shown with Col.(ret) Carol Holland, Wyoming liasison officer, at cadet in-processing at the Air Force Academy on July 1. Photo Courtesy of AFA.
Steve Caughenour of Andreen Hunt construction Inc. motions to the concrete truck operator while pouring the foundation on the expansion of the McMurry Training Center Wednesday afternoon in Casper. Photo by Dan Cepeda/Casper Star-Tribune.
Pfc. John Foskick, left, leads a group of soldiers as they participate in pre-deployment training last week at Camp Guernsey in Guernsey. The Wyoming National Guard is preparing more than 940 soldiers to be deployed in April. Photo by Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune.
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)
Map locates Rajasthan state in India, where a train derailed
Map locates Rajasthan state in India, where a train derailed
Israeli fire fighters try to extinguish a fire at the Galim Chemicals factory, which manufactures laundry detergent, after it suffered a direct hit by a rocket fired from neighboring Lebanon, in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona Thursday, July 27, 2006. A Hezbollah rocket slammed into a detergent plant in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona on Thursday, security officials said. During Israel's 15-day offensive in Lebanon, Hezbollah has fired more than 1,400 rockets into Israel, including 48 that fell on Thursday.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
A small model train runs along it's track at the Central WYO Model Railroad Association in North Casper on Saturday. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Marty Millar uses a digital control to run his model train at the Central WYO Model Railroad Association on Saturday in North Casper. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Rescue operators work at the site where coaches of the New Delhi-bound train derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people, police said. (AP Photo)
Rescue operators and onlookers are seen through the shattered window of a coach of a New Delhi-bound train that derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people, police said. (AP Photo)
Indian police and rescue operators work at a site where coaches of the New Delhi-bound train derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing passengers. (AP Photo)
Indian police officers inspect the derailed coaches of a New Delhi-bound train that derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing passengers. (AP Photo/Vinay Joshi)
Rescue operators work at the site where coaches of the New Delhi-bound train derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people, police said. (AP Photo)
Rescue operators and onlookers are seen through the shattered window of a coach of a New Delhi-bound train that derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people, police said. (AP Photo)
Indian police and rescue operators work at a site where coaches of the New Delhi-bound train derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing passengers. (AP Photo)
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