As the Anchorage School District prepares to launch a major curriculum change for high school students beginning next year, administrators say they’re unsure how they plan to fund and staff for the proposed career track initiative. Earlier this fall, the district announced that it planned to launch an ambitious initiative next school year beginning with a freshman seminar that would require all ninth grade students to spend one designated class period per day exploring career possibilities and their own skills and interests. Then in fall 2025, sophomore students would choose...

Robert Dean Maher Jr. of Casper, Wyoming, reportedly received a concerned call from his girlfriend Sunday indicating that a pair of teens were stalking her and her friend around the Eastridge Mall. The chivalrous 14-year-old made his way over to help but was savagely stabbed to death. The Casper Police Department announced that they have arrested two teens in connection with Maher's slaying. According to the Cowboy State Daily, the suspected killer is 15-year-old Jarreth Joseflee Sabstian Plunkett of Evansville. Plunkett now faces charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit...

A Wyoming teenager is being hailed as a hero after he was stabbed to death outside a shopping mall, reportedly while protecting his girlfriend. Casper police detained two juveniles, 15-year-old Jarreth JoseFlee Plunkett and 15-year-old Dominique Antonio Richard Harris, in connection with the April 7 stabbing death of 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Maher at the Eastridge Mall. Both suspects are being charged as adults. "We are completely and utterly devastated to our cores. He was the best of all of us and his light is too bright to be dimmed," Bobby's...

A Wyoming woman wanted in a shooting investigation has been arrested in central Nebraska. According to the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP), Victoria Tidball, 28, was wanted in connection to a shooting in Saratoga Wyoming on December 16. Police in Saratoga said that she fired a weapon around 40 times into a house and vehicle. Authorities say the unidentified victim was unharmed. NSP said she was found traveling on Interstate 80 near Gothenburg, Neb., Wednesday night, was pulled over and arrested without incident. Authorities say she is also accused of breaking...

WYOMING, Mich. — A 53-year-old Grand Rapids man has died after being hit by a vehicle in Wyoming on Thursday. The incident occurred in the 2100 block of Clyde Park Avenue at about 7:55 p.m. According to the Wyoming Department of Public Safety, the man was standing in the roadway when he was hit by a vehicle that was traveling southbound on Clyde Park Avenue. The driver remained at the scene to speak with investigators. At this time, police do not believe that alcohol was a factor in the incident....

Wyoming’s head coach also made sure to enjoy the smell of the freshly cut grass and soak in the Sonoran Desert sun as he took the field for his final practice on Thursday afternoon after four decades wearing a whistle around his neck at work. “If you live in the moment, I think that’s really important. So, I haven’t processed that,” Bohl said on the subject of coaching his final game at UW. “Maybe after all this is over and I’m sitting by the fire having a cigar and a...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (KLKN)– Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested Victoria Tidball, 28, of Saratoga, Wyoming, on suspicion of being connected to a shooting. The shooting happened in Saratoga on December 16. Wednesday evening, NSP received information that a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting may be traveling through Nebraska. At approximately 10:20 p.m., a trooper located the vehicle in which the suspect was believed to be traveling, a BMW SUV, as it was driving westbound on Interstate 80 near Gothenburg, near mile marker 210. The trooper...

LEXINGTON, Neb. (KSNB) - A woman suspected in a Wyoming shooting case was jailed in Dawson County late Wednesday night. Victoria Tidball, 28, is one of two suspects connected to a Dec. 16 shooting incident in Saratoga, WY. The Saratoga Sun newspaper reports that local police were investigating Tidball for firing 40 gunshots into a house and car in what police believe was a domestic fight. The victim was unharmed. A Dawson County official confirmed that Tidball was jailed in Lexington and said she had been arrested by the Nebraska...