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<title>$60 Million Wyoming Rare Earth Plant To Challenge China Nears Full Operation | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Construction of a $60 million state-of-the-art rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant is complete in Upton, Wyoming. It’s expected to be game-changing in America’s efforts to break China’s rare earth stranglehold.

$60 Million Wyoming Rare Earth Plant To Challenge China Nears Full Operation

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<title>Felony Warrant Issued For Wyoming Mom Who Took Off With 10-Month-Old Baby | Cowboy State Daily</title>

More than two weeks after a 10-month-old boy was reported missing, authorities have issued a felony arrest warrant for his mother, who’s accused of taking the baby. “I feel like I'm getting robbed of the joys of being a dad,” his father says.

Felony Warrant Issued For Wyoming Mom Who Took Off With 10-Month-Old Baby

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<title>Father Sues Jackson Newspaper For $25 Million Over Child Abuser Claim  | Cowboy State Daily</title>

An aviation consultant whose child custody battle raged for years in Wyoming’s court system sued Jackson Hole News&Guide on Tuesday for $25 million, claiming it falsely labeled him a child abuser despite court documents saying otherwise.

Father Sues Jackson Newspaper For $25 Million Over Child Abuser Claim 

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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>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Chance of morning snow in some areas, otherwise partly to mostly sunny in much of Wyoming on Wednesday. Partly cloudy to mostly clear overnight. Highs from the low 20s to the low 30s and lows in the single digits and teens.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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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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