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<title>Wyoming Officials Fear Seminoe Power Project Could Ruin Premier Bighorn Herd | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming wildife officials and others fear a Utah-based company’s plan to build a 900-megawatt power project at Seminoe Reservoir could ruin the state's most-prized bighorn sheep herd and a blue-ribbon trout fishery.

Wyoming Officials Fear Seminoe Power Project Could Ruin Premier Bighorn Herd

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<title>Two In Jail On Claims They Were Being Paid To Drive Teen Girl Through Wyoming | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Two remained in a Rawlins jail Tuesday on claims they kidnapped and were being paid to transport a 16-year-old girl from Wisconsin to Utah. Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers stopped them Saturday on Interstate 80 between Laramie and Rawlins.

Two In Jail On Claims They Were Being Paid To Drive Teen Girl Through Wyoming

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<title>Trump Administration Gives UW $1M To Create Second Amendment Program For Schools | Cowboy State Daily</title>

With a $1 million grant from President Donald Trump’s Department of Education, the University of Wyoming’s Firearms Research Center is tasked with creating nonpartisan public school courses on the Second Amendment.

Trump Administration Gives UW $1M To Create Second Amendment Program For Schools

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Renée Jean

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<title>Cheyenne Frontier Days Lineup: Blake Shelton To Headline His Sixth CFD In 2026 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Country music star Blake Shelton will headline his sixth Cheyenne Frontier Days in 2026. Shelton highlights the Frontier Nights concert lineup announced Tuesday evening, which includes Trace Adkins and up-and-coming Texas bar band Treaty Oak Revival.

Cheyenne Frontier Days Lineup: Blake Shelton To Headline His Sixth CFD In 2026

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<title>Cheyenne Man Hits Deputy With Car During Wild Traffic Stop | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A 64-year-old Cheyenne man faces an attempted aggravated vehicular homicide charge, accused of striking and injuring a Laramie County Sheriff’s Office deputy with his vehicle during a wild Monday evening traffic stop.

Cheyenne Man Hits Deputy With Car During Wild Traffic Stop

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<title>Rasner’s Defamation Case Against Bouchard Survives First Hurdle | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Casper man who ran for U.S. Senate in 2024 and made headlines with an aspiration to buy TikTok can keep suing a former state legislator, a judge has ruled. Reid Rasner claims Anthony Bouchard defamed him as part of "a coordinated smear campaign."

Rasner’s Defamation Case Against Bouchard Survives First Hurdle

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