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Trump Calls Out Wyoming While Signing Pro-Coal Executive Orders

President Donald Trump called out Wyoming and its Republican delegation Tuesday at a signing ceremony for his executive orders to boost coal in the nation’s power supply. Wyoming is the No. 1 coal state, but production has shrunk for years.

Sean BarryApril 08, 2025

Gillian Holman, 16, asked the Wyoming Legislature on Tuesday to study ways to stop adults from stalking minors, and lawmakers agreed. Here she and her parents Dan and Cathy Holman, center, meet with legislators before Gillian testified Tuesday, April 8, 2025, before the Legislature's Management Council at the Capitol in Cheyenne.

Lawmakers Consider Stronger Laws After Wyoming 16-Year-Old Stalked, Bullied

Gillian Holman, 16, asked the Wyoming Legislature on Tuesday to study ways to stop adults from stalking minors, and lawmakers agreed. A 41-year-old woman was sentenced last month for impersonating and bullying the girl and another teen.

Clair McFarlandApril 08, 2025

David Henrikson and Toni Brown say they daily continue to grapple with the loss of their daughter, Lene’a Brown, who was gunned down in a Casper Park on May 14, 2024.

Casper Teen Who Shot Ex-Girlfriend At Point-Blank Range Gets 42-75 Years In Prison

A 16-year-old Casper boy who said “I just want to kill someone” before shooting his ex-girlfriend at point-blank range got 42-75 years in prison Tuesday. For the girl’s family, the pain is still raw. “I scream on the inside all day long,” her father said.

Dale KillingbeckApril 08, 2025

Legislature Cuts Meetings After Summer Committee Bills Go Nowhere

A number of Wyoming legislators complained this past session about interim committee bills that were never introduced, saying it was a waste of time to craft bills that went nowhere. On Tuesday, the number of interim meetings was cut from six to four.

Leo WolfsonApril 08, 2025

Banks in Montana and Wyoming were targeted by fraudsters Decoriss Darnell Smith, left, and Stanford Wilvin Lightfoot, who forged phony paychecks, then recruited homeless people to cash them at local “country” banks. The homeless were also left to take the blame if caught.

National Crime Ring Recruited Homeless To Take The Blame In Check Cashing Scheme

Banks in Montana and Wyoming were targeted by fraudsters who forged phony paychecks, then recruited homeless people to cash them at local “country” banks. The homeless were also left to take the blame if caught.

David MadisonApril 08, 2025

USAF Tested Its B-58 Jet Bomber By Ejecting A Bear Named Yogi At 35,000 Feet

In 1962, the Air Force ejected a bear named Yogi from a jet bomber going 870 mph at an altitude of 35,000 feet. In hindsight, a retired USAF colonel questions how anyone thought that was a good idea.

Mark HeinzApril 08, 2025

Letter To The Editor: Hypocritical Democrats Want Government Oppression, Not Freedom

Dear editor: While the Democrats were out demonstrating, the rest of us in the real world were fixing cars, raising cattle, changing tires, waiting on tables, bartending, drilling for oil, driving trucks, keeping the lights on and the water running so the demonstrators could have a latte and go to lunch after their show.

April 08, 2025

Candy Moulton: A Salute To The Many Ships To Wear The Name ‘USS Wyoming’

Candy writes: “For a land-locked state, Wyoming has its share of naval history, including two battleships that served in the Civil War, World War I and World War II. The USS Wyoming built 1912 had a silver tea service that is now in the collection at the Wyoming State Museum."

Candy MoultonApril 08, 2025

University of Wyoming President Ed Seidel was visibly concerned, left, before a Tuesday two-hour Board of Trustees meeting, after which he was visibly relieved, right. UW confirmed after the meeting that Seidel remains "the president." The UW Faculty Senate on Monday drafted a vote of “no confidence” in his leadership.

UW President Ed Seidel Still Has A Job Day After Faculty ‘No-Confidence’ Vote

University of Wyoming President Ed Seidel was visibly relieved Tuesday following a two-hour Board of Trustees meeting, after which UW said he remains "the president." The UW Faculty Senate on Monday drafted a vote of “no confidence” in his leadership.

Clair McFarlandApril 08, 2025

Romulus and Remus, the two dire wolf pups created by Colossal Biosciences, are recorded giving their first howls.

Dire Wolves Resurrected From Prehistoric DNA As ‘World’s First De-Extinct Animals’

A company revealed Monday it’s created the “world’s first de-extinct animals,” two wolf pups genetically modified to resemble extinct dire wolves. The same company has said it also may soon "resurrect" woolly mammoths.

Andrew RossiApril 08, 2025

Cowboy State Daily Show with Jake — Tuesday, April 8, 2025

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Jake NicholsApril 08, 2025

Cowboy State Daily Video News: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Tuesday's headlines include: * Yellowstone Pond A Death Trap For Bison * Driver Who Hit Good Samaritan Not Charged * Former First Lady Sherri Geringer Remembered

Wendy CorrApril 08, 2025

National Guard Cooperating With Investigation Into Sergeant’s Underage Sex Case

The Wyoming National Guard is cooperating with the investigation of a guardsman and former high school teacher charged with nearly 20 sex crimes, including against someone younger than 16. He has an April 16 arraignment in Platte County District Court.

Clair McFarlandApril 07, 2025

Wyoming Rare (USA) Inc. is reporting even better returns at its Halleck Creek rare earth mining site. That helps grow Wyoming’s lead in the race for domestic production — and processing — of critical rare earth minerals.

Chinese Export Restrictions Could Help Wyoming’s Rare Earths Industry

Wyoming’s rare earth minerals industry is cautiously optimistic about restrictions China has put on exporting the same rare earth minerals they mine in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Leo WolfsonApril 07, 2025

Blacktail Ponds in Yellowstone can be a bison death trap in the winter as they fall in and can't get out.

Yellowstone’s Blacktail Pond Is A Bison Death Trap, But A Buffet For Bears

The Blacktail Pond area in Yellowstone National Park can be a death trap for bison if they fall through ice or get trapped in muddy water and drown. But for the area's bears, it's a buffet.

Mark HeinzApril 07, 2025

Riggin Schaffer, 18, was killed March 23 when he stopped to help a driver hurt in a highway crash and was hit by another vehicle that came upon the scene.

No Charges For Driver Who Hit Good Samaritan, DUI For Teen He Stopped To Help

The Wyoming Highway Patrol released its report Monday on the Highway 130 crash that killed good Samaritan Riggin Schaffer, 18, on March 23. The driver who hit Schaffer wasn’t drunk or ticketed, but the crashed driver Schaffer stopped to help got a DUI.

David MadisonApril 07, 2025

Guest Column: Drafters of Legal Letter Chose Political Advocacy Rather Than Non-Partisanship

Guest columnist Ray Hunkins writes, "After the banner headline, 'The Rule of Law Matter,' the letter disappoints. In tone and substance, it is a political screed that assigns blame, but not to all who are guilty of intemperate remarks. Progressives get a pass."

CSD StaffApril 07, 2025

The American West: Surveying the Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail is one of the most important thoroughfares in the history of the United States. In its relatively short lifetime as a highway of commerce, it linked the raw, brazen youth of American industry to the centuries-old marketplaces of New Mexico.

James A. CrutchfieldApril 07, 2025

Letter To The Editor: If You're Against Abortion, Don't Have One

Dear editor: I know for a fact the God that lives inside every abortion clinic and to which all pregnant women pray is understanding and supportive. This God has many names and is big enough for every person's prayers.

April 07, 2025

A skunk is caught on a wildlife trail cam stashing pieces of a turkey carcass in a mountain lion's den.

Fearless Skunk Caught Stashing Its Dinner Of Roadkill In Mountain Lion’s Den

Skunks will eat just about anything and they’re fearless, as evidenced by a video of a skunk stashing its dinner of roadkill turkey in a mountain lion’s den.

Mark HeinzApril 07, 2025

Felony Charges For Cheyenne Man After Pokémon Deal Goes Wrong

A 22-year-old Cheyenne man has been charged with felony theft in connection with a Pokémon card deal that went wrong. Court documents say Justice Geho drove off Thursday with a rare $3,300 Umbreon card a seller let him hold.

Clair McFarlandApril 07, 2025

Casper Teen Tells Police Stabbing Another Teen 5 Times Was ‘Self-Defense Yo’

The Casper Police Department announced Monday that an arrest warrant has been issued for a Casper teen accused of stabbing another teen five times. He told police the victim tried to beat him up, so the stabbing is “self-defense yo.”

Dale KillingbeckApril 07, 2025

The possibility of the death penalty is off the table for both Big Piney teens accused of ambushing and murdering their friend with a bow and arrow. Rowan Littauer, pictured, pleaded not guilty Monday, as did his alleged accomplice Orion Schlesinger on March 20.

No Death Penalty For Either Big Piney Teen Charged In Bow And Arrow Ambush

Sublette County's top prosecutor on Monday withdrew the possibility of the death penalty for Rowan LIttauer, just as he had in March for Orion Schlesinger. The teens are accused of ambushing and killing their friend with a bow and arrow in February.

Clair McFarlandApril 07, 2025

Former Wyoming First Lady Sherri Geringer Dies, Remembered As ‘Quiet, Classy’

Former Wyoming first lady Sherri Geringer, wife of former Gov. Jim Geringer, died Saturday after battling an extended illness. One longtime friend says she’ll be remembered for her “quiet, classy approach to her work as first lady.”

Leo WolfsonApril 07, 2025

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