The town of Buford, Wyoming was sold today to two unknown businessmen from Vietnam who won the small piece of the U.S. with a winning bid of $900,000. About a dozen potential new owners gathered around the Buford’s sole business to bid on the small town, which consists of a gas station, a house, and [...]

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What do you do when a town’s only inhabitant decides to step aside?  You put the town up for sale. Don Sammons, well known for being the sole inhabitant of Buford, Wyoming, says it’s time to sell the town and let someone else take over. Sammons moved to the edge of Interstate 80 with his [...]

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Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack died yesterday at the age of 65. Bruce Cohn, the band’s manager, said in a statement that Hossack died of cancer on Monday in his Wyoming home. “His family was by his side,” said a statement on the band’s website. “Our thoughts and condolences go out to his family and [...]

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A grizzly bear attacked and killed a visitor at Yellowstone National Park yesterday, according to the National Park Service. The visitor, whose name has been withheld, was hiking with his wife along the Wapiti Lake trail when he surprised a female bear and her cubs. Thinking that her cubs were in danger, the bear attacked [...]

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In what is thought to be one of the largest national security failures in U.S. history, 50 American nuclear missiles went offline this past weekend. It happened at the FE Warren Air base, outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming, home to about 1/9th of the U.S. missile stockpile. Ploughshares fund President Joseph Cirincione says the missiles could [...]

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Brian Mattert came up with a creative way to try to avoid being Tasered.  The Wyoming man doused himself with latex paint, but was hit with the Taser anyway. Police went to Mattert’s house on September 16 on a domestic violence call.  When authorities arrived on the scene, the Cheyenne man thought they would likely [...]

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Police in Wyoming repeatedly tasered a 76-year-old man who was riding on an antique tractor during a local town parade because the tractor accidentally bumped a police vehicle. Bud Grose was tasered repeatedly after his 1958 John Deere tractor accidentally bumped a police car in the annual Deer Creek Days parade on August 1. Here’s [...]

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