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Jake Nichols

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Crime & Courts

Law Enforcement

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<title>Police Report One Dead In Shooting At Casper Convenience Store | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The Casper Police Department is investigating the Sunday afternoon fatal shooting of a man at a busy gas station and convenience store. A clerk said he believes the shooter was chased there and turned and fired a shot into one of his pursuers.

Police Report One Dead In Shooting At Casper Convenience Store

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Business & Tourism

Business

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<title>Drinking Sturgis : One Eyed Jack's Saloon Makes Everyone Blush | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The main level of One Eyed Jack's is a vast, open-air layout with a dozen separate island bars. It feels kind of like a junior high cafeteria. That is, if in this junior high cafeteria women wear thongs, bartenders paddle patrons on the derriere and random dudes invite you to pet a 30-pound boa constrictor.

Drinking Sturgis : One Eyed Jack's Saloon Makes Everyone Blush

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<title>A Night In Sturgis Jail Isn't Pretty | Cowboy State Daily</title>

When arrests at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally get too high, officials resort to an overflow jail, a quasi-retired 1950s era jailhouse. “When you have 50+ drunk individuals who aren’t happy to be there, haven’t showered in a few days, highly intoxicated, it gets thick back there,” a prison official said.

A Night In Sturgis Jail Isn't Pretty

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Outdoors

Wildlife

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<title>Move Over, Prairie Grizzlies, Here Come The Prairie Mountain Lions | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Mountain lions are associated with, well, mountains. But they are increasingly reclaiming habitat in Great Plains states such as Nebraska and Kansas. That follows patterns seen from other species, like grizzlies expanding back into prairie areas.

Move Over, Prairie Grizzlies, Here Come The Prairie Mountain Lions

Fishing

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<title>Fishermen Outraged Watching Huge ‘Tonka Truck’ ATV Rip Up Montana Riverbed | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Montana fishing guide said he was outraged watching someone drive a huge “Tonka Truck” SHERP ATV right through a river next to him. The huge balloon-tired ATV ripping up the riverbed was illegal, and the driver may be cited.

Fishermen Outraged Watching Huge ‘Tonka Truck’ ATV Rip Up Montana Riverbed

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<title>Wolves Might Have Saved Yellowstone’s Aspen From Elk, But Now Bison Are Eating It | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Scientists say wolves helped save aspen trees in Yellowstone by eating the elk that were gobbling aspen saplings. But now bison are moving in on the aspen, eating it and knocking the trees over.

Wolves Might Have Saved Yellowstone’s Aspen From Elk, But Now Bison Are Eating It

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Jim Luksic

The International Pathfinder Camporee brought 60,000 people to Gillette this week but not enough porta-potties. One youth leader says the foul situation ruined it for his group, while the sanitation contractor says they needed 1,000 more.

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Camporee Brought 60,000 People To Gillette, But Not Enough Porta-Potties

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