Wyoming Digest

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OIL EXPLOSION-CITATIONS

CHEYENNE — State workplace safety officials say they are withholding citations for an oil facility explosion that killed three workers out of concern that the media might report on the citations before the companies get a chance to see them. The Associated Press filed a records request Tuesday to obtain the citations mailed last week. By Mead Gruver.

UW TRANSFERS

CHEYENNE — Wyoming community college students who transfer to the University of Wyoming do better if they obtain an associate's degree at the two-year colleges. By Bob Moen.

DOCTOR SUSPENDED

CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Board of Medicine has suspended temporarily the license of a Cody doctor, alleging that he falsely certified a patient needed emergency surgery. The board took the action Saturday against Dr. John H. Schneider, a neurosurgeon with practices in Cody and Billings, Mont. By Ben Neary.

INDIAN MONEY

HELENA, Mont. — Carol Good Bear says she worries for her safety after the attorneys who negotiated a $3.4 billion settlement over misspent Native American land royalties published the phone numbers and addresses of the four people objecting to the deal. Good Bear, of New Town, N.D., started receiving angry phone calls about a week ago, after the letter went out. She has since unplugged her home phone and started screening her cellphone calls. By Matt Volz.

ALSO:

— UNION PACIFIC-COAL — Union Pacific says it was more profitable in 2011 than ever before due in part to coal shipments from Wyoming's Powder River Basin.

— LARAMIE COUNTY-DUI — The number of arrests for driving under the influence in Laramie County was down last year but police are concerned that the blood-alcohol level of those who were arrested remained high. By The Associated Press.

— TV WESTERN FILMING — A new TV series about a Wyoming sheriff begins filming in March. The New Mexico Film Office announced Monday the A&E cable television network series Longmire will mainly shoot in northern New Mexico and may use the Greer Garson Studios on the Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus,

SPORTS:

WYOMING-SELLERS

LARAMIE — A few years ago, Matt Sellers had never played basketball. A couple of years of AAU competition, an odd recruitment and one stop at a junior college later, Sellers finally arrived at the Division I level. And he's spending this semester preparing for what he hopes are three productive seasons with the Wyoming Cowboys. By Eric Schmoldt of the Casper Star-Tribune.

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