Engineer guilty in military secrets case (AP via Yahoo! News) After a six-week trial, a federal jury convicted a Chinese-born engineer of conspiring to export U.S. defense technology to China, including data on an electronic propulsion system that could make submarines virtually undetectable.
State engineer gets hot potato (Casper Star-Tribune)In the wake of Gov. Dave Freudenthal's veto of new Department of Environmental Quality rules to address flooding and the waste of groundwater in coal-bed methane development, State engineer Patrick Tyrrell has been asked to explain his authority related to water quantity issues.