Years of living in Wyoming deprived me of a vice that unlike all others I never gave up, playing the lottery.

An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River near Billings in south-central Montana ruptured and dumped an unknown amount of oil into the waterway, prompting temporary evacuations along the river Saturday morning.

Highway 212 from Rockvale to Red Lodge is closed. Detour through Belfry or Bridger.

From a grizzly bear's perspective, the small landfill in this tiny northwest Wyoming community might smell like a buffet dinner, with dead livestock and meat processing waste dumped in a pit not far from the other trash.