The Wyoming Supreme Court this week ruled that dogs trained to detect drugs can sniff a vehicle’s exterior without probable cause.

The opinion by Chief Justice Kate M. Fox, released Wednesday, upholds a district court’s decision to deny the separate motions to suppress evidence by two defendants charged with multiple drug-related counts. Maria Anne Joseph and Jackson Elliot Tarzia argued that the canine sniffs of their vehicles’ exteriors took place without probable cause, and therefore, violated the Wyoming Constitution.

An inmate from the Wyoming Honor Conservation Camp who escaped Monday afternoon while working with the prison’s forestry crew in Weston County is still at large as of early Tuesday afternoon.

Former residents of rehabilitation ranch for troubled teens that is facing abuse accusations have asked a Wyoming district court to stay court proceedings until an appeals court rules whether to allow their case against the facility to proceed as a class-action lawsuit.

Every month, if you wanted to find out who had been convicted of driving under the influence, battery or other misdemeanors in Jackson Municipal Court, all you had to do was look it up online at the town council’s website, www.jacksonwy.gov.

Not anymore.

GILLETTE, Wyo.—The family is not sleeping, and all of their emotions are up in the air, Chris Munga told the group gathered at a local coffee shop in downtown Gillette. Munga’s sister, Irene Gakwa, 33, has been missing since late February.

GILLETTE, Wyo.—A Campbell County district judge granted a second continuance request by the fiancé of a missing Gillette woman who has been charged with five felonies related to crimes against her with a new pretrial conference scheduled for January.

Over the course of a year, the Wyoming Truth gathered data on every criminal matter that passed through the courthouses in Jackson Hole, the world-renown tourist capital of the state, and the results show that Teton County is rife with minor offenses, led by traffic violations, DUIs and public intoxication.

A pre-trial process is underway for a class action lawsuit involving allegations of abuse, lack of proper hygiene and human trafficking against a troubled teen rehabilitation ranch in a rural town in northwest Wyoming.

The state attorney general has opted not to challenge a recent Wyoming Supreme Court ruling that found a traffic stop by a highway patrol officer was unreasonable and violated the constitutional rights of a passenger in a car traveling on an interstate in Cheyenne.

Weber’s priorities are: sexual assault response; mental health for officers and other staff; recruiting; retention; training; and community engagement. All six initiatives involve working hand-in-hand with the community as a police force.

The law gives the Wyoming Department of Family Services the responsibility to oversee juvenile justice data collection and gather certain information from various state and local government agencies.

The 24/7 program requires individuals charged with DUIs to get tested for substances twice daily every day while awaiting trial for alcohol and drug related arrests.

State Supreme Court rules after attorney found guilty of prosecutorial misconduct.