February 8, 2011
Workers move historic train in Laramie, Wyoming

The Union Pacific 535 steam engine, built in 1903 and retired in the late 1950s, moved for the first time in more than 50 years on Monday morning.

Its wheels never spun and the engine didn’t start — another $600,000 would be needed for that to happen — but with cranes and a truck, the engine was moved from Laramie’s LaBonte Park several miles southwest to the historic train depot.

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February 4, 2011
Egyptian student monitors protests from Laramie, Wyoming

When Carol Tadros logged onto Facebook a week ago, 90 percent of her friends were offline. She knew something was wrong, turned on CNN and heard that the Egyptian government shut down Facebook and Twitter.

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