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Scott Artis was trying to get some good photographs of lightning when he inadvertently caught the strike that started the Kohns Fire in Campbell County on July 27.

Artis was in his home near Rozet when he noticed the dark storm clouds overhead. He decided to share the storm with his father.

“My parents live out of state, and my dad's a real big fan of lightning and thunderstorms,” Artis told Cowboy State Daily. “It's so easy to capture lightning out here, so this storm rolled in, and I thought I’d get a quick video and give him a glimpse of Wyoming life.”

Artis picked a direction and started filming. The storm didn’t disappoint, sending a particularly large lightning bolt straight to the ground.

A few minutes later, he noticed a red glow in the spot where lightning had struck.

“All of a sudden, the fire started roaring,” he said. “My wife grabbed the phone, made sure we had good cell service, and called 911 to report that there was a fire.”

It turned out they did the Campbell County Fire Department a favor. They had been responding to other wildfires in the area, but weren’t aware of what became the Kohns Fire until Artis called it in.

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The Campbell County Fire Department quickly responded to the Kohns Fire, which burned around 2,700 acres before full containment.

The thunderstorm that moved across Campbell County on July 27 sparked multiple fires in the area. The first flames spread quickly due to strong winds and dry vegetation.

Scott and his wife live on top of a hill near Rozet, an unincorporated town. It gives them an excellent vantage point to see the surrounding landscape.

“You can really appreciate the beauty of these thunderstorms, but also the inherent danger,” he said. “We have a good 360-degree view from our house, so we could see if there was any smoke and help some ranchers and people with houses and prairies from going up in smoke.”

Artis wants to be the best neighbor he can to his fellow Wyoming ranchers. That’s one of the reasons he moved to Wyoming in the first place.

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Artis, who moved to Wyoming from California's Bay Area, is a former molecular biologist who’s had “an interesting career path.” That would be putting it modestly.

“I worked to develop cures and processes to battle HIV and other diseases,” he said. “I created tools for cancer research, and some of the clients of our biotech products include NASA and the International Space Station.”

NASA worked with Artis to test tissue samples of living astronauts to see if and how prolonged time in the International Space Station altered their bodies. Such insights are critical to the agency’s goals of long-term experiments leading to the Moon and Mars.

Nevertheless, Artis and his wife had a 10-year plan to “get out and live that rural life.” Their dream was always to find a small property where they could get away from it all, but it came sooner than they anticipated.

“We woke up one day, and we said, ‘Why are we waiting 10 years?’ We're going to be older, things could potentially be more difficult, or we may never do it. Life changes, so we decided to go for it.”

Artis started looking for the perfect spot. He found it on a ranch near Rozet, so the couple “left everything we had known behind and went to the prairie of Wyoming.”

They've been there for just over a year, and say they are loving every minute of it.

“We got sheep, chickens, and property,” he said. “We see deer and antelope every day. There’s great people and great community. This is true America. It doesn't get any better than this.”

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Witnessing the lightning strike that started the Kohns Fire was another insightful experience for Artis. It reminded him why he was eager to pick up and move to the country.

“I've been into conservation, wildlife conservation, and environmental work for a while,” he said. “I did all this work to help preserve populations and these incredible resources for fishermen, hunters, and recreational opportunities, but I was doing it from inside an office building.”

After relocating to Wyoming, Artis said he feels that he gets to “see the fruits of those labors” every day. It makes him even more determined to preserve the natural landscape however he can.

“I'm still in the wildlife, non-profit world, and I'm in the process of now looking for a new position that kind of fits my remote lifestyle,” he said. “I spent a lot of time indoors protecting the stuff that was outdoors, without seeing or enjoying it. Now, I'm living in it and able to do that every day.”

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<title>Campbell County Newcomer Gets Video of Lightning That Started 2,700-Acre Fire | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Scott Artis was just trying to get a video of a thunderstorm for his dad when he captured the lightning strike that started the Kohns Fire in Campbell County on July 27. “All of a sudden, the fire started roaring,” said Artis, whose wife called 911.

Campbell County Newcomer Gets Video of Lightning That Started 2,700-Acre Fire

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Renée Jean

Business & Tourism

Jackson Hole isn’t the first place most people think of for a wrestling match, but that’s what is about to quietly unfold in Teton County over the next few weeks. 

Two events, one week apart, will place opposing visions of money within the same valley.

While the two opponents won't share the same stage, they will feature opposing visions of money within the same valley. And each will host different sets of financial titans — neither of which are likely to pull any punches.

First up is the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, Aug. 17-20, an invitation-only, three-day gathering in Teton Village that will draw 500 billionaire founders, institutional investors and top-tier policymakers for what amounts to a digital-asset Davos. 

The guest list includes top-level regulators such asSEC Chair Paul Atkins and billionaire CEOs such as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Galaxy’s Mike Novogratz and BitGo’s Mike Belshe. Venture capital titans such as Morgan Stanley head of Emerging Markets Amy Oldenburg, Nasdaq senior executive Kevin Kennedy, and Skybridge Capital Managing Partner Anthony Scaramucci are also attending.

Then, seven days later, after the crypto and fintech crowd clears out, a considerably smaller group of 120 traditional gatekeepers of legacy finance will arrive at Jackson Lake Lodge for the Federal Reserve’s annual economic retreat — led by new Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. 

His banner for the equally closed-door event Aug. 27-29, is “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy.”

If all this sounds like it’s just coincidence, it’s one that mirrors events of the past 17 years, ever since Satoshi Nakamoto published his Bitcoin white paper amid the 2008 global financial crisis — just two weeks after the government announced a $2 trillion bailout for banks deemed “too big to fail.”

The argument between the two camps boils down to one core question: Who will control the future of money, and what shape should that future take? 

As crypto advocates see it, government should not be trusted with this power. Exhibit A in their book is the continual printing of money, devaluing everyone’s savings. Computer code can be programmed to limit the money supply automatically, without fear or favor.

The Federal Reserve, on the other hand, is angling for more central control. They believe a group of human experts should control the money supply, to print or restrict money in ways that steer the economy, prevent crashes and manage inflation. 

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Sen. Chris Rothfuss, D-Laramie, one of the architects of Wyoming’s digital asset framework, is among those in the Cowboy State watching all of this unfold. 

“It’s an interesting little battle,” he said. “Those traditional financial institutions obviously want to win and want to be in control of financial systems, regardless of the financial system type. So it’s going to be a continued battle.”

Rothfuss hopes that despite the federal battles Wyoming has had to fight for its regulatory framework, that some of the financial institutions are finally coming around.

“I’m hopeful that the hard work we’ve invested in will pay off,” he said. “I think we are still better positioned than any of the alternative solutions — really any of the federal solutions, when it gets right down to it. Because the federal regulatory structure is very subject to political will and the politics of Washington, D.C.”

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Former state legislator and Crook County rancher Tyler Lindholm also helped pioneer the state’s digital asset laws. He sees the digital asset sector as a chance at economic diversification that might help retain more of the state's youth.

“The reality is not everybody wants to grow up to be a cowboy or a coal miner,” Lindholm said. "So, what are we going to do to provide that opportunity for those homegrown Wyoming kids who do want to chase self-actualization and become their best selves and work in the trade they want to work in? Wyoming needs to find a way. We have to find a way to be attractive to different types of industries, because if we keep going down the path we’re going down, Wyoming is going to continue to just look like a retirement state.”

Rep. Daniel Singh, R-Cheyenne, has also been active in digital asset legislation. He is optimistic about the future — and proud of how Wyoming has handled the digital asset space.

“We didn’t have to give any special tax breaks or handouts to these industries to make them think Wyoming is attractive,” he said. “All we had to do was lean into our strengths, which was recognizing the rights of the people, that coming in the form of recognizing property rights in the digital age. We were the first state to go forward and do that, and because we were the first ones to create that legal clarity, so many entities are coming into the state of Wyoming now.”

Some of those entities are already stepping up to give back, Singh added. 

“The largest single entity in Wyoming is Kraken, and they are the ones who have pledged to fund the Trump accounts for our next generation,” he said. “That’s creating a whole other opportunity for the next generation of kids who are going to be here, and they did that voluntarily.”

Others in the space are less optimistic, pointing to the “leap-frogging” the Fed’s delay has made possible by banks in financial centers like New York..

“As a result of that, the big financial institutions have stayed mostly in New York,” Custodia Bank’s Caitlin Long told Cowboy State Daily. “Because the powers that be were able to block Wyoming as an upstart … So Kraken is the only big company that has not just registered in Wyoming, but has relocated to Wyoming and has jobs on the ground.

”It’s not going to be what we had at one time hoped it would be. And there’s one simple reason for that. It’s the Federal Reserve.”

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The fact that a digital asset conference with so much global heft is happening in Jackson Hole is not an accident, even if its timing with the Federal Reserve’s annual symposium might be coincidental. 

Wyoming has spent the better part of a decade quietly rewriting its laws to court this kind of moment.

Starting in 2018, lawmakers passed a series of first-in-the-nation statutes to define digital assets clearly and to recognize them as a form of personal property. That legal clarity came with special charters for things like digital asset “SPDI” or speedy banks, to securely hold digital assets and cash them out, and DUNAs, which allow Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) to enter into contracts, hold assets, hire contributors and pay taxes. 

The latter Wyoming model has since been copied by other states such as Alabama and West Virginia. 

SPDIs, however, were choked out at the federal level by regulators — despite lawmakers engaging in at least 100 meetings with the Kansas City Federal Reserve to hammer out a SPDI law that would be pleasing to the Fed.

The state has also backed its own government-issued stable token, the Frontier token, pitched as a way to modernize public finance, while helping the state bolster its education system and its property tax base. 

The strategy, Rothfuss and other lawmakers have said, was taking a page from another lightly populated state's playbook. Decades ago, South Dakota successfully diversified its economy by embracing a nascent credit card industry, collaring several companies that still have significant operations there today, among them Citibank and Wells Fargo. 

That’s had mixed success, with the Biden Administration’s Federal Reserve blocking Wyoming’s SPDI banks, but Rothfuss does see notable successes, like Kraken’s decision to plant not only its incorporation papers but its headquarters in Wyoming. 

Founded in 2011, the cryptocurrency exchange and fintech platform serves more than 15 million users in 190 countries, facilitating billions in trading volume and posting $2.2 billion in annual revenue.

It’s No. 3 on the inaugural Fortune Crypto 100 list, tracking the most influential infrastructure builders in the digital asset world. 

“A big part of the reason we have SALT is Kraken and their recognition of (Wyoming’s) framework,” Rothfuss said. “And then we have other entities coming to Wyoming, utilizing our DUNA Act and utilizing other resources like the speedy that we have. We’re trying to get traction with our Frontier Stable tokens, so I think we’ve got all the right tools in place.”

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That backstory explains how and why the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, whose sister SALT Conference is held in places like Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, New York, and London, has kept the Cowboy State on its short list for three years running. 

“Wyoming, in particular, has shown leadership within that (digital) asset class,” SALT CEO John Darise told Cowboy State Daily. “So this event is built around being an annual fixture in Wyoming.”

It does bring a large economic impact to Teton County and by extension Wyoming. 

Darise will secure as large a hotel room block as possible in Teton Village, which essentially means the Four Seasons Teton Mountain Lodge, Faraway Jackson, Gravity House, and Hotel Terra.

“All told, the event is meant to be a 500-person event and is supposed to be somewhat exclusive in nature — by application or invitation only,” he said.

SALT will spend thousands on catering for those 500 out-of-state guests as well as different types of events meant to be a crash course in the Wyoming experience.

“Each year we’ve done a reception at Snake River Ranch at the gray Barn facility in Teton Village,” Darise said. “We’re doing a big reception at the Mangy Moose in Teton Village this yea, and, then, for the third straight year, we’re doing a concert at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in downtown Jackson.” 

The event has sometimes been closed to media, but not this year.

“In year one, we did take more of a Chatham House rule approach,” Darise said. “But we’ve decided that we want to open it up. There’s nothing that’s going on that we don’t want to share with the world. So we’ve opened it up to media in subsequent years.”

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Darise is a believer that Wyoming stands to gain, long-term, from the digital asset industry, which he sees as a natural when dovetailing with Artificial Intelligence.

“Wyoming’s leadership in sort of financial innovation is going to dovetail into its leadership in energy and AI leadership,” he said. “Wyoming is a very resource-rich state, a lot of which is untapped. Energy, if it’s consumed closer to where it’s produced, is much more efficient.”

Historically, Wyoming has exported 12 to 15 times the amount of energy it uses, according to various media estimates. 

“I know data center is a dirty word,” Darise said. “But if you can have data centers built in a place like Wyoming …” it flips the script on both jobs and tax revenues.

“They are positive for the locations in which they operate,” he said. “They are job creators, as long as they’re not putting an onerous strain on an energy grid or a water source or poisoning a water source. And I think as these data centers go on, they will get better at making sure those two things aren’t the case. Then it’s up to local and state leaders to make sure the data centers are built in the right place and operate the right way.”

The vision of Wyoming ripping a page from South Dakota’s playbook is “absolutely” possible, Darise added.

“This is a growth industry,” he said. “And Wyoming has very effectively staked out its place as the leader in this asset class and in this industry that I think, long-term, will cause it to have more of a moat around it in terms of regulatory innovation.”

Darise added that he “yearns” for the West every time he’s in Wyoming — if he could just one day convince his wife to relocate. 

“I’m really excited for the future in Wyoming,” he said. “And I’m excited to have our long-term home there for this event.”

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<title>New Fed Chief Visits As Two Elite Summits Puts Wyoming At Center Of Money Fight | Cowboy State Daily</title>

In the span of a week, Teton County will host a 500-person, invite-only, digital-asset “Davos.” That will be followed by the Federal Reserve’s elite annual retreat. Each event is another round in a high-stakes wrestling match over the future of money.

New Fed Chief Visits As Two Elite Summits Puts Wyoming At Center Of Money Fight

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

Mostly sunny, smoky in Wyoming on Tuesday. Mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke. Highs from the low 70s to mid 80s. Lows from the low 40s to mid 50s.

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Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 50 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph.

Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 80 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke and a low near 51.

  Areas of smoke before noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 75 and partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 50 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 83 and wind from 12-17 mph. Mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 44 and wind from 11-16 mph.

  Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 85 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 47 and wind gusts as high as 29 mph.

 Areas of smoke, sunny and breezy today with a high near 76 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph. Mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 45 and wind gusts as high as 28 mph.

 Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 77 and wind gusts as high as 23 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 40 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

 Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 21 mph. Mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 42 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

  Areas of smoke, sunny and breezy today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 26 mph. Mostly clear and breezy overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 40 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph.

 Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 74 and wind gusts as high as 24 mph. Mostly clear overnight with patchy smoke, a low near 42 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.

  Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 81 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Mostly clear overnight with widespread smoke mainly before midnight and a low near 41.

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:  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 72 and mostly clear overnight with widespread smoke mainly before midnight and a low near 37.

Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 80 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke, a low near 52 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

:  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 75 and mostly clear overnight with widespread smoke mainly after 4 a.m., a low near 50 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

  Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 80 and partly cloudy overnight with areas of smoke, a slight chance of rain before midnight and a low near 54.

   Areas of smoke, sunny today with a high near 73 and mostly clear overnight with areas of smoke, a chance of rain mainly before midnight and a low near 51.

  Patchy smoke before noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 78 and increasing clouds overnight with a slight chance of rain before 11 p.m. and a low near 47.

:   Patchy smoke before noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 75 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain before 11 p.m. and a low near 49.

Areas of smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 75 and wind gusts as high as 18 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain after midnight, a low near 49 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph.

   Areas of smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 73 and partly cloudy overnight with a chance of rain after midnight, a low near 51 and wind gusts as high as 16 mph.

:  Areas of smoke before noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 70 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain after midnight and a low near 49.

  Widespread smoke before noon, gradually becoming mostly sunny today with a high near 74 and partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain after midnight and a low near 56.

  Widespread smoke before noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 75 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 50.

  Areas of smoke, mostly sunny today with a high near 73 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with a slight chance of rain after midnight, a low near 48 and wind gusts as high as 22 mph.

   Areas of smoke before noon, gradually becoming mostly sunny today with a high near 71 and increasing clouds overnight with a low near 52 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

  Areas of smoke before noon, mostly sunny and breezy today with a high near 75 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph. Partly cloudy and breezy overnight with a low near 48 and wind gusts as high as 30 mph.

  Areas of smoke before noon, gradually becoming mostly sunny today with a high near 73 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 52 and wind gusts as high as 25 mph.

   Areas of smoke before noon, sunny today with a high near 79 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 50.

   Areas of smoke before noon, mostly sunny today with a high near 82 and partly cloudy overnight with a low near 49.

   Patchy smoke, sunny today with a high near 80 and wind gusts as high as 20 mph. Partly cloudy overnight with patchy smoke and a low near 46.

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Tuesday, August 4, 2026

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Kolby Fedore

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His truck still needs a suspension repair he never got to finish with his father.

And in the days since the 20-year-old former Worland athlete died from injuries suffered in a northern Colorado rollover crash, family members say those ordinary reminders have become priceless.

, Colorado State Patrol said Parra was critically injured July 25 when the Chevrolet Tahoe he was driving rolled on Weld County Road 80 near Eaton, ejecting all five occupants. Three Colorado passengers died at the scene. A fourth passenger survived with minor injuries. Parra remained hospitalized for eight days before dying Sunday. 

Cowboy State Daily requested the official crash summary from the Colorado State Patrol but had not received the report before publication. 

 that the State Patrol said that speed and impairment contributed to the crash, though a cause hasn’t yet been determined.

Now, those who knew Roman best say they hope he is remembered not for the crash but for the life he lived.

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Roman's mother, Alyssa McDonald, said Saturday had been an ordinary summer day.

She had taken Roman's younger sister to the fair parade before returning home to surprise her oldest son by cleaning his bedroom.

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As she folded clothes and straightened his room, she expected him to walk back through the front door the next day.

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"I texted, called, panicked when I saw there was no movement," said McDonald. 

She hoped his phone had simply fallen to the floor or been tossed across the vehicle.

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"They told me there had been a bad accident and my son was involved," she said. "Three had passed away at the scene, but Roman had survived."

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"The chance of him making it off the table was very unlikely," she said.

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Long before he became one of Wyoming's top linebackers, Parra was the little boy who wanted one thing more than anything else.

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As a second-grader, teachers noticed he signed the bottom of school assignments with the words "God is Good." 

Near graduation, one of his teachers asked what he wanted to do with his life.

"My first priority is my relationship with Christ," he replied, according to his mother.

Looking back, McDonald said she believes that answer explained the way he lived.

"I think that was probably his purpose in life — to spread that kindness, that joy and Christ's love," she said.

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If someone challenged Roman's beliefs, she said, he didn't argue emotionally.

"He would fight for God all the time," she said. "If somebody said something, he could back it up with Scripture."

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In his final high school football game in the fall of 2024, McDonald said Parra tore his meniscus.

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He finished the game and scored the final touchdown of his high school career.

In the spring of 2025, he again played through the same injury during the state soccer tournament because he didn't want to leave his teammates behind.

When football ended, Roman spent the summer working construction alongside his father while preparing to attend Laramie County Community College this fall to study automotive technology.

Asked what his son had taught him over the past 20 years, Armando Parra paused.

"He taught me peace and patience," he said. "As much as you raise a kid, a kid raises you."

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The waiting room rarely emptied during Parra's eight days in the hospital.

[{"type":"text","text":"Friends drove from Cheyenne after work."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Football families stopped in."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"Strangers from Eaton, Colorado, brought food, water and supplies."}]

One mother loaned the family a wagon so they could haul meals through the hospital.

[{"type":"text","text":"For Daniela, none of it came as a surprise."}]

[{"type":"text","text":"\"I expected it,\" she said. \"He was that loved.\""}]

Worland athlete Roman Parra died Sunday, eight days after being ejected from his vehicle in Colorado. His family said Roman's greatest gift wasn't in sports, but making everyone feel loved. "His purpose in life was to spread kindness," his mom said.

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