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Today Casper Area 1 Neighbors' fears of predator remain high A3 Commission changes subdivision regulations A3 Wyoming nC A Rf A beautiful Suminrr day H7 -1!) WYOMING'S STATEWIDE NEWSPAPER FOUNDED IN 1891 Tit el on 9 yc Wyoming gas takeaway capacity Figures measured in millions ol cubic feel per day (Mind d) vini -i State, producers aim to bolster gas prices To Montana (47) BIGHORN HUB (So) To the Dakolas (95) V. nitfriTAC hi in Democratic challengers hit campaign road Bl Wyoming Business To the Pacific Northwest (410) By DUSTIN BLEIZEFFER Star-Tribune encrg' rt'ixrter GILLETTE The Wyoming Energy Commission and lour natural gas producing compa A To Utah. Nevada California (1,100) OPAL HUB nies recently pitched in $47,500 each to pay Pace Global Energy Services to create a strategy to combat de -o--- CIGHUB To Colorado Ihe To the San Juan Mid-conin4nt (1 800) Basin (180) 1 the existing projects are the way to go. On the other hand, some ol the projects on the table may not really solve any of the prol lems," Holcomb said. Wyoming's prolific natural gas production continues to strain against bottlenecks in pipelines leading to far-away markets, adding to factors significantly depressing prices for the state's pnxiucers to the tune ol about $2.00 per thousand cubic feet (mcf) of gas, industry officials said.

According to Intelligence Press, a gas marketing publication, natural gas traded on Thursday for Friday delivery at the Cheyenne Hub in Weld County, fetched an Please see GAS, A 12 Their study will focus on ways to improve the Interstate pipeline infrastructure that takes Wyoming natural gas out of the state. But some partners contend permitting, market deregulation and gas trading practices need overhauling as well. As for the logistics, Pace, the WEC. Marathon Oil, Yates Petroleum, Nance Petroleum and Anadarko could decide to build their own pipeline to help bolster prices. Or, Pace could recommend that the state entice others to build more pipeline or recommend that a current pipeline construction project be expanded upon, said John Holcomb, vice president of Pace Global.

"It's very likely that some of As GAS DIFFERENTIAL Chain stores replaced by local mercantiles CI Sports Aug 20 Aug. 21 Aug 22 Spot Prices Aug. 15 Aug. 16 Aug. 19 Figures in millions of British thermal unit (MMBtu) 3.22 3.67 3.11 2.84 2.92 4.07 2.86 2.65 3.10 3.49 3.00 2.77 3.26 3.666 3.16 2.90 3.10 3.64 3.02 2.76 pressed natural gas prices for producers in the state.

The group is focusing its efforts on getting more Wyoming gas to far-away markets. The Pace study is an effort to determine where the most lucrative distant markets may be and how best to get the gas there. Henry Hub New York Chicago S. Calif. Opal Hub Cheyenne Hub World Summit Life on the road Dl National r.r A 5- Art cars show owners' personalities A2 World 1.19 1.08 Source: Energy Information Administration Relatives relieved by Duke verdict Green River man killed wife, son GREEN RIVER (AP)-Relatives of Liana and Erik Duke expressed relief that ajury found James Robert "Bob" Duke guilty of murder in their deaths six years ago.

The jury deliberated about eight hours Friday before finding Bob Duke guilty (if two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of soliciting their murders and two counts of soliciting his parents' murders. Prosecutors said Duke first attempted to pay a longtime friend to murder his 22-year-old wife and 5-year-old son. then did it himself by pushing them off a 200-foot cliff near Flaming Gorge Reservoir on Aug. If)', The alleged plot to kill the parents was conceived in 199X and 1999, authorities said. Ralph Davidson, father of Liana and grandfather of said the verdict "gave us closure.

We waited over six years to get closure." But it don't bring Liana and Erik back. We miss them every day and will for the rest of our lives." During closing arguments Friday morning, chief deputy county prosecutor Tons Howard told jurors the case started when Bob Duke's friend from junior high Roger Brauburger went to police on Please see DI KE, 5 tt ViJM .0 45-- i i 7 4 DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS AP Dancers belonging to the Ubuwe Bentsha Cultural Group perform in advance of the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday. See story, A6 Flattened village gets aid promises A6 Suspected Saudi terrorist surrenders planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and who seized a third plane that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. The bulletin said a picture from al-Rasheed's Saudi passport, issued in May 2000. was found among material "previously recovered during the war on terrorism" and found Please see TERRORIST, A12 The Saudi Interior Ministry on Saturday would not confirm or deny it was holding the younger al-Rasheed.

The FBI did not respond Saturday to requests for comment. The FBI issued a bulletin Tuesday night seeking the younger al-Rasheed's immediate arrest, saying he was suspected of being associated with the hijackers who flew picion of associating with the Sept. 11 hijackers has surrendered to Saudi authorities, his father said Saturday. Saud Abdulaziz Saud al-Rasheed turned himself in to Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Thursday to prove his innocence after learning of the FBI's worldwide alert for his arrest, his father told the Associated Press from Riyadh. Father says son wants to prove his innocence By ALAA SHAHLNE Associated Press writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates A 21-year-old Saudi man sought by the FBI on sus The grouch Maybe they could bottle it and give it a fancy French name.

Priests accused of sexual abuse file slander lawsuits But Catholic officials as well as advocates for victims of abusive priests agreed that the multiple defamation suits appear to be early salvos in a counterof tensive by some of the hundreds of priests who have l)een accused of Please see PRIESTS, A 12 law against a fellow priest, the Rev. John Bambrick, who asserted publicly this spring that he had been abused as a teenager by Eremito in New York. Lawyers for the priests said in interviews that they had prepared their cases independently. back against those who have accused them of sexual misconduct. A fifth priest, the Rev.

Anthony Eremito, has used a church tribunal in the Diocese of Trenton, N.J., to strike back at his accuser. Eremito has lodged a defamation action under canon cusations against him, he filed a lawsuit in county court here, saying he had been slandered. Priests in at least three other Roman Catholic dioceses Oklahoma City, St. Louis and Cleveland have also used the civil courts in recent weeks to strike By SAM DILLON The New York Times TULSA, Okla. Hours after the Rev.

Paul Eichhoff was forced to leave his Tulsa parish earlier this month, pending an investigation of sexual abuse ac Index ADVISERS B6 CALENDAR BIO CASPER AREA A3 CLASSIFIED Fl CLICK AND CLACK F14 COMMUNITY E4 CROSSWORD, ANSWERS F14, F16 FORUM E2 LETTERS E3 MARKETS C4-C6 MOVIES C7 OBITUARIES B3 OPINION El SPORTS Dl WEATHER BIO WEDDINGS B4 WORLD A5 WYOMING Bl WYOMING BUSINESS CI NAACP's Rivers: 'Freedom under fire' and stayed for the speech despite the on the voting "report card" the NAACP recently gave him. as well as Sen. Mike Enzi, and Rep. Barbara Cubin. Rivers began his speech by quoting from the Book of Daniel.

Chapter 3, Verse I which recounts how King Nebuchadnezzer cast three of Daniel's companions into a furnace for refusing to worship a statue, but through God's intervention, they were preserved unharmed. Similarly, he said, "freedom is under fire," in the United States Please see RIVERS, A 4 is to do what it takes to feed this dog," he said as the crowd hollered encouragement. Rivers used his Southern preacher fire, honed to a white hot flame in South Carolina, to address the crowd Saturday at the ColoradoMontanaWyoming State Conference at the Parkway Plaza Hotel in Casper. He is currently the chief of Field Operations for the NAACP, and will become Chief Operating Officer, second only to President Kweisi Mfume, in September. Sen.

Craig Thomas, dropped by to support the cause By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN Star-Tribune staff writer Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III stood at the podium with his right arm cocked at the elbow, breathing deeply as he got ready to run from whisper to shout and back again, all in the same sentence. For 93 years, the Baptist minister said, the NAACP has been a watchdog lor black people. With the government's assault on personal freedoms since Sept.

11, he said, people need a strong advocate. "You need this dog and your job ROBERT HEKDfttCKSSUr-TritMffW Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III, NAACP's national chief of Held Operations, speaks during the Colorado Montana Wyoming NAACP state conference at the Parkway Plaza Hotel on Saturday In Casper. I a76'7088, Find out what's happening in Wyoming.

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