CHEYENNE, Wyoming, May 15 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon has announced that updated public health orders effective May 15 will ease restrictions on several business categories and permit restaurants to resume indoor table service statewide. The Governor has also allocated $17 million in federal funding to expand COVID-19 testing, improve contact tracing and add to the state's supply of personal protective equipment (PPE). "We have been w more PR

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, May 15 -- Laramie County Community College issued the following news: It's official! Beginning this fall, Laramie County Community College will offer bachelor of applied science degrees in two programs. Now that approval has come from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), LCCC will offer two options for these BAS degrees: * Applied management (under the Business & Accounting Pathway) * Healthcare administration (under the Health Science & Wellness Pathway) The HLC is the  more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, May 16 -- Gov. Tom Wolf, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release on May 15: Governor Tom Wolf announced 12 additional Pennsylvania counties will move to the yellow phase of reopening at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, May 22. Those counties include Adams, Beaver, Carbon, Columbia, Cumberland, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Wayne, and York. Twenty-four counties moved into the yellow phase of reopening on May 8 and another 13 moved to yellow beginning. W more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 16 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: A longtime University of Wyoming College of Education faculty member and administrator has been named interim dean of the college. Leslie Rush, an associate dean who has directed the college's School of Teacher Education since 2017, will take the reins July 1 from Dean Ray Reutzel, who is retiring after leading the college for the past five years. The UW Board of Trustees approved the appointment Thursday. more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 13 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Even if a vaccine for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is developed and made widely available, about 20 percent of Americans will likely decline to receive it, according to a study by University of Wyoming economists. As a result, the researchers project that it is likely the vaccine will fail to ensure herd immunity -- a condition in which people are sufficiently immune to the virus such that the pandemic d more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 15 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: While a majority of Wyomingites support most policies designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Wyoming, support for all policies continues to decline, according to a new survey by the University of Wyoming's Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center (WYSAC). Over two-thirds (70 percent) of Wyoming residents say they support the closure of K-12 schools, down from 85 percent at the end of March. Some 59 percent s more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 12 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Wyoming's second-largest industry and future University of Wyoming graduates will benefit from a new minor in hospitality business management offered in UW's College of Business. Additionally, the college has created a new leadership minor aimed at preparing students to be leaders in every facet of their lives. Scheduled to launch this fall, the minors represent the college's commitment to give its gradua more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 14 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Jason Gigley, a University of Wyoming associate professor of molecular biology, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study how nutritional immunity and disease tolerance can be used to combat Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii), a dangerous foodborne pathogen that can kill people with immune deficiencies as well as developing fetuses. T. gondii is a major health concern for people whose immune systems are weakene more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, May 16 -- The Public Service Commission of West Virginia issued the following order (Case No. 20-0392-PSD-C): J.P. & ASSOCIATES LEASING, INC., Pineville, Wyoming County, Complainant, V. CENTER PUBLIC SERVICE DISTRICT, a public utility, Defendant. COMMISSION ORDER On May 15, 2020, J.P. & Associates Leasing, Inc. filed a verified formal complaint against Center Public Service District. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Defendant is required to satisfy the formal compla more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, May 15 -- The Wyoming Small Business Development Center Network issued the following news: A weekly look at issues facing Wyoming business owners and entrepreneurs from the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, a collection of business assistance programs at the University of Wyoming. By Paul Johnson, associate state director, Wyoming SBDC Network We've clearly heard that the greatest challenges you face during these times are financial pressures. And whi more PR