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IOWA TRUCKER-KILLINGS
Trucker from Iowa charged in 1990s slayings of 3 women
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Investigators in Iowa have arrested a former long-haul trucker suspected of killing two women in Wyoming and a third in Tennessee in the early 1990s. Police arrested 58-year-old Clark Perry Baldwin on Wednesday at his home in Waterloo, Iowa, on warrants from Tennessee and Wyoming charging him in the three killings. He’s being held in the Black Hawk County jail pending extradition proceedings. The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation says in a news release that “advances in technology” linked Baldwin to the crimes. He's charged in the 1992 killings of two unidentified women in Wyoming and the 1991 slaying in Tennessee of a pregnant woman, Pamela McCall, and her fetus.
UNRULY BEAR EUTHANIZED
Wyoming wildlife officials capture, kill unruly grizzly bear
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Wyoming have captured and killed an unruly grizzly bear on their radar for years after it fell for bait trap last week. The Jackson Hole News & Guide reported that the adult male bear was first caught in 2015 and was relocated at least three times since then. State Game and Fish Department biologist Mike Boyce finally outmaneuvered the bear April 29 when the animal fell for a trap in northern Grand Teton National Park. Boyce worked more than 100 days to capture the grizzly over the past three years. Officials believe the same bear caused multiple problems, including breaking into sheds and attacking livestock.
HUNTING GRIZZLIES
US, Wyoming urge rejection of ruling that blocked bear hunts
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Attorneys for the U.S. government and the state of Wyoming are urging an appeals court to throw out significant portions of a ruling that blocked the first grizzly bear hunts in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades. The case involves more than 700 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park. The animals lost their federal protections but had them restored in 2018 by a judge in Montana just as hunting was scheduled to begin. Environmental groups and Montana’s Crow Tribe say grizzlies in the Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming need continued protections to protect their hard-fought recovery from near-extinction last century.
TRIBES-CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDING
Treasury to begin distributing virus relief money to tribes
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department says it will begin distributing billions in coronavirus relief funding to tribes. The announcement Tuesday comes more than a week after a congressional deadline to get $8 billion to tribal governments. Tribes sued to keep the funding from Alaska Native corporations, which own Native land but aren't tribal governments. The Treasury Department says tribes will receive a combined $4.8 billion based on population over the next several days and the rest will be doled out later. Tribes are relying on the money to stay afloat, respond to the coronavirus and recover after shutting down casinos, tourism operations and other businesses.
AP-US-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CATTLE-PRICES
11 attorneys general seek probe into meatpacking industry
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — The attorneys general for 11 Midwestern states have urged the Justice Department to investigate market concentration and potential price fixing by meatpackers in the cattle industry during the coronavirus pandemic. The state attorneys general wrote in a letter dated Tuesday to U.S. Attorney General William Barr that the concentrated market structure of the beef industry makes it particularly susceptible to market manipulation, particularly during times of food insecurity, such as the current COVID-19 crisis. The letter was signed by attorneys general in North Dakota, Missouri, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wyoming.
AP-US-VIRUS-OUTBREAK-STATE-AID
States with few virus cases get big share of relief aid
An Associated Press analysis shows that some of the least-populated states with relatively few coronavirus cases received an out-sized proportion of the $150 billion in federal money that was designed to address virus-related expenses. When measured against the number of positive coronavirus tests, the gaps are extreme. The small states' haul included more than $2 million per positive test in Hawaii, Wyoming and Montana, and nearly $3.4 million per test in Alaska. By comparison, New York, by far the hardest-hit state, received about $24,000 per positive coronavirus test. States are now lobbying Congress for another round of help.
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