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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Thursday's headlines include:
* Cattle Scam “Too Good To Be True"
* Illegal Wolf Killing Outside Yellowstone
* Carbon County GOP Calls For Resignations 

Cowboy State Daily Video Newscast: Thursday, February 19, 2026

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Chance of snow in Wyoming mainly in the morning on Thursday, otherwise partly to mostly sunny. Partly to mostly cloudy overnight. Highs in the teens and 20s. Lows from single digits below 0 to above 0 single digits.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Thursday, February 19, 2026

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Clair McFarland

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<title>Carbon County GOP Calls For Reps To Resign Over Silence On ‘CheckGate’ | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The Carbon County GOP is calling for resignations of four state reps for their silence on the ongoing “CheckGate” scandal. The party says they knew defamation claims aimed at Rep. Mike Yin for making the check-passing public were wrong, but didn’t speak out.

Carbon County GOP Calls For Reps To Resign Over Silence On ‘CheckGate’

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<title>Daily Darwin: Thursday, February 19, 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

It just keeps getting better and better....

Daily Darwin: Thursday, February 19, 2026

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Andrew Rossi

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<title>Interstate 80 Closed For 21 Miles After More Weather-Related Crashes On Wednesday | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Winter weather created nasty driving conditions that contributed to a pair of multi-vehicle crashes Wednesday that closed a 21-mile stretch of west I-80. “It was just a whiteout,” one motorist caught in the middle of the pileups told Cowboy State Daily.

Interstate 80 Closed For 21 Miles After More Weather-Related Crashes On Wednesday

David Madison

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<title>Senators Vow Crack-Down On Wyoming-Based LLC Fraud | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming has surpassed Delaware as the top state for business incorporations per capita, and with that has come more LLC fraud. The state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that could crack down on using the state's business-friendly LLC laws to scam people.

Senators Vow Crack-Down On Wyoming-Based LLC Fraud

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