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<title>Utah To Become First State To Ban Fluoride In Drinking Water | Cowboy State Daily</title>

While Wyoming hasn’t passed a statewide ban on adding fluoride to tap water, some communities like Casper, Evanston, and Thermopolis have enacted their own. Utah voted this month to eliminate fluoride in drinking water, the first statewide ban in the nation.

Utah To Become First State To Ban Fluoride In Drinking Water

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<title>Too Young To Drive? Not If You’re A Wyoming Farm Kid | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming is one of nine states that still issues “hardship” driver’s licenses to 14-year-old ranch kids. But in reality, growing up rural in the Cowboy State means most farm and ranch kids have already been driving for years by then.

Too Young To Drive? Not If You’re A Wyoming Farm Kid

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<title>The American West: Susan Magoffin on the Santa Fe Trail | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Samuel Magoffin was an experienced trader who used the Santa Fe trail when he set off in June of 1846 with fourteen big wagons, each one pulled by six yoke of oxen. His young wife, on the other hand, had no clue what was in store for her on the trail.

The American West: Susan Magoffin on the Santa Fe Trail

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Clair McFarland

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<title>'Bitcoin Billionaire' Wanted In All 50 States After Friend Pays, Loses $50K Bond | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Investigators say a man who cast himself as a ‘bitcoin billionaire’ during a Jackson Hole spending spree was committing fraud. He skipped court this week - after convincing a friend to pay his $50,000 cash bond. Kevin Segal is now wanted in all 50 states.

'Bitcoin Billionaire' Wanted In All 50 States After Friend Pays, Loses $50K Bond

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Mark Heinz

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<title>Well-Known Bear Likely First Grizzly Caught On Video This Year, Near West Yellowstone  | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Photographers believe the grizzly seen ambling past a trail camera on Thursday night in Yellowstone is the same huge male that is often one of the first bears to make an appearance each spring. 

Well-Known Bear Likely First Grizzly Caught On Video This Year, Near West Yellowstone 

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Leo Wolfson

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<title>World, Wyoming Delegation Mourns Al Simpson’s Death | Cowboy State Daily</title>

People from around Wyoming and the world expressed their condolences over the passing of former Wyoming U.S. Senator Al Simpson, who died Friday morning. His wife Ann told Sen. Barrasso that it was a full moon and “Al went to heaven on a moonbeam.”

World, Wyoming Delegation Mourns Al Simpson’s Death

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Celestino "Tino" Nacor Miguel Manzanares

Celestino "Tino" Nacor Miguel Manzanares, 89