Wyoming News Briefs

Powell woman dies in apparent suicide at jail

POWELL (WNE) — An inmate at the Park County Detention Center died Saturday night in what authorities described as an apparent suicide. The Powell woman, who’d been booked into the jail early Friday morning, was 35 years old at the time of her death.

In a Monday afternoon news release, the Park County Sheriff’s Office withheld the woman’s name, saying that a family member had yet to be notified of her death. As a result, the Tribune is not publishing her name either.

The sheriff’s office said detention deputies were conducting rounds at 8:44 p.m. Sa...