The Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office recently shared a story involving Sweetwater County Detention Center inmates helping an elderly couple clean up debris from a botched tree trimming job.
The fire could have killed or severely injured even more occupants of the home had not a passerby alerted the family to the blaze and helped get the residents to safety.
As many as 237 cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have now been detected in 10 of Wyoming's 23 counties, according to Wyoming Department of Health data.
A driver who died in a single-vehicle rollover crash east of Rock Springs Tuesday morning may have fallen asleep at the wheel, the Wyoming Highway Patrol says.
Nine more Wyoming residents have died of COVID-19, including a woman and three seniors from Laramie County, the Wyoming Department of Health confirmed Tuesday.
Among Wyoming residents, there have now been 713 coronavirus-related deaths, 50,028 lab-confirmed cases and 9,291 probable cases reported since the pandemic began.