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Cowboy State Daily Video News: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Wednesday's headlines include: - Casper Doctor Forced Off Board of Medicine For Support Of Trans Treatment Ban - Gillette Man Says Distant Attic People Triggered Him To Slit Mother’s Throat - People Outraged After Some Guy Named Nick Defaces Yellowstone Thermal Feature
Wendy CorrMay 29, 2024
Bob Nicholas Will Run For 8th Term In House Against Head Of Wyoming GOP
Longtime Wyoming legislator Bob Nicholas of Cheyenne has announced he’s running for an eighth term in office. The executive director of the Wyoming Republican Party, Kathy Russell, is challenging him for the seat.
Leo WolfsonMay 28, 2024
Now Beartooth Highway Hit By Avalanche, Remains Closed
Officials want to open Beartooth Highway, one of the main routes to get to Yellowstone, but still can't. Opening day was delayed due to weather and now it's because an avalanche has pummeled the road.
Andrew RossiMay 28, 2024
People Outraged After Guy Named Nick Defaces Yellowstone Thermal Feature
Some guy named Nick seems to love the thermal features at Yellowstone National Park that he scratched his name and a message into one of them over the Memorial Day Weekend, to the outrage of many fans of the park.
Andrew RossiMay 28, 2024
Casper Doctor Forced Off Board of Medicine For Support Of Trans Treatment Ban
Gov. Mark Gordon forced a Casper doctor to resign from the Wyoming Board of Medicine for openly supporting a bill banning transgender treatments and surgeries on minors in Wyoming. The governor reluctantly signed the bill into law.
Leo WolfsonMay 28, 2024
Candy Moulton: The Big Boy is Headed Out
Columnist Candy Moulton writes, "On June 30, Big Boy No. 4014, the largest operating steam engine in the world, will roll out of Cheyenne headed west with the first stop in Laramie that same day. Wamsutter and Green River are next and then off to Utah, Nevada, and California."
Candy MoultonMay 28, 2024
Wyoming To Expand Critical Minerals Permitting To Include Uranium, Rare Earths
With Wyoming positioning to become ground zero for a new U.S. nuclear power revolution, the state is finalizing rules to expand its energy regulatory authority to include uranium and rare earths mining, aka “nuclear source material."
Pat MaioMay 28, 2024
Gillette Man Says Distant Attic People Triggered Him To Slit Mother’s Throat
A Gillette man told a sheriff’s investigator he was defending himself from people in a "distant attic" when he lifted his mother’s chin and slit her throat. He’s been charged with attempted murder, and she’s recovering in a hospital.
Clair McFarlandMay 28, 2024
Former F.E. Warren Commander Says U.S. Right To Be Worried About China
The former commander of F.E. Warren Air Force Base said the shutting down a Chinese-owned cryptocurrency mine next to the base is just one example why the U.S. is right to be worried about China’s efforts to infiltrate.
Renée JeanMay 28, 2024
Cheyenne Mom Who Swung Toddler 'Like A Baseball Bat' Gets 10-15 Years In Prison
A 21-year-old Cheyenne mother who swung her 2-year-old son "like a baseball bat" apologized Tuesday, saying that “he didn’t deserve this” as she was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison.
Clair McFarlandMay 28, 2024
Cowboy State Daily Video News: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Tuesday's headlines include: VA Snubs Families At Memorial Day Service NFL Films Premieres Documentary On Wyo High School Cheyenne Historic Barn Once Stabled Steamboat And Seabiscuit
Wendy CorrMay 28, 2024
Guest Column: Another Rocky Mountain Rate Hike – Here We Go Again!
Rep. Harriet Hageman writes, "Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Rocky Mountain Power wants to raise your electric bill by double digit … yet again. This is not the first rate increase that RMP has proposed, and it will not be the last."
CSD StaffMay 27, 2024
Families Snubbed At Cheyenne National Cemetery On Memorial Day
As many as 100 showed up at Cheyenne National Cemetery on Monday morning for an advertised Memorial Day service in honor of fallen heroes and loved ones. But the VA never showed up to host the service.
Pat MaioMay 27, 2024
Gigantic Boulders Not Crashing Down On Highway In Wind River Canyon Is Good Sign
It's a good year so far in Wind River Canyon as there's been a decrease in rocks and boulders crashing down on the highway. The Wyoming Dept of Transportation believes it could be a sign that rockfall mitigation projects are working.
Andrew RossiMay 27, 2024
No National Air Race Championship For Casper But Town Could Get Other Races
Casper won’t be the new home for National Championship Air Races, but the racing association plans to expand with other racing events, and says Casper is on the short list for one of those.
Renée JeanMay 27, 2024
Dave Simpson: The Trump Trial -- What A Disaster
Columnist Dave Simpson writes, "“Remember when convictions of black defendants in the south were reported with the words 'by an all-white jury?' If Trump is convicted, the media probably won't write 'convicted by an all-Democrat jury.'”
Dave SimpsonMay 27, 2024
NFL Network Puts Wyoming In Spotlight With Documentary On Heart Mountain Eagles
The NFL Network will premiere a half-hour documentary Monday on the Heart Mountain Eagles, the high school football team for the Wyoming Japanese-American internment camp during World War II that went undefeated in 1942.
Andrew RossiMay 27, 2024
Champions Of The Outdoors Featured In Original Jackson Musical
Just about everyone in Jackson who has ever hiked, biked or paddled in the backcountry knows of famed conservationists Olaus and Mardy Murie. Celebrated Jackson playwright Andrew Munz has made a musical celebrating them.
Jake NicholsMay 27, 2024
Acts Of Kindness: Gillette Teens Rescue Baby Birds, Wildlife Rehabber Does The Rest
The easy part for two Gillette teens was rescuing the baby birds who were motherless and appeared doomed. But then what? Thankfully, one of two certified mammal wildlife rehabbers in Wyoming lived in Gillette and she took care of the rest.
Jen KocherMay 27, 2024
Casper Man Committed To Keeping Mountain Man History Alive
Dale Gregory of Casper never quite grew out of his childhood dream of being a Wyoming mountain man. Now he lives the lifestyle and shares it with others at the Fort Caspar Museum because he says it's important to keep the history of the West alive.
Dale KillingbeckMay 27, 2024
Cheyenne’s Historic C.B. Irwin Barn Once Stabled Steamboat
Cheyenne’s historic C.B. Irwin Barn, about a block from the Wyoming Capitol and now home to Cowboy State Daily, once stabled the legendary Steamboat.
Renée JeanMay 27, 2024
Wyoming Mother Of Nine Gets Personal Best In Triathlon Despite Breaking A Rib
Evanston's April Lange, a mother of nine, set a personal best by 10 minutes in a 70-mile triathlon earlier this month in St. George, Utah. Even more impressive, she did it with a broken rib that she suffered five minutes into the race.
Clair McFarlandMay 27, 2024
Cowboy State Daily Video News: Monday, May 27, 2024
Monday's headlines include: * Standoff Over Wolf Torture In Daniel * UPS Drivers Dish Dirt Over Rural Delivery Practices * Grizzly Attack Survivor Said He Never Let Go Of Bear Spray
Wendy CorrMay 27, 2024
Getting Wyoming’s Iconic 1 Million Pound Big Boy Locomotive Ready For Summer Tour
The race is on to get Wyoming’s iconic Big Boy locomotive ready for its summer 2024 tour. It takes a lot of work for the largest operating steam engine on the planet at more than 1 million pounds.
Renée JeanMay 27, 2024