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<title>Cowboy State Daily Video News: Thursday, October 30, 2025 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Thursday's headlines include:
* Kemmerer Nuke Project Gets Go-Ahead
* Justified Force Ruled for Pine Bluffs Man
* Determined Wolf Pulls Out Rack of Ribs from River

Cowboy State Daily Video News: Thursday, October 30, 2025

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Dale Killingbeck

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<title>Meet Kai, The Laramie 2-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want Candy On Halloween | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Meet Kai Montoya, a 2-year-old Laramie boy who loves Halloween and wearing his skeleton costume. He also is fed through a tube after heart surgery at birth, which means he doesn’t want candy — but he’s thrilled with pencils, stickers, and other toys.

Meet Kai, The Laramie 2-Year-Old Who Doesn’t Want Candy On Halloween

Coy Knobel

Don Day Weather

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<title>Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Thursday, October 30, 2025 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Sunny in Wyoming on Thursday. Highs from the low 40s to the mid 50s and lows mainly in the 20s.

Don Day's Wyoming Weather Forecast: Thursday, October 30, 2025

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Clair McFarland

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<title>Jury Chooses Lighter Penalty For Nurse Who Let Dementia Patient Freeze | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A jury found a former Gillette assisted living center nurse who lost track of a dementia patient, who then got outside and froze to death, guilty of misdemeanor negligent homicide. But the jury acquitted him of the manslaughter felony he originally faced.
 

Jury Chooses Lighter Penalty For Nurse Who Let Dementia Patient Freeze

Jackson Walker

Energy

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<title>Nuclear Panel Says Bill Gates-Backed Kemmerer Project Is Environmentally Safe | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that the Bill Gates-backed Kemmerer Natrium project poses “no adverse impact to the environment.” It is the first advanced commercial facility to receive such a distinction.

Nuclear Panel Says Bill Gates-Backed Kemmerer Project Is Environmentally Safe

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Andrew Rossi

Outdoors

Wildlife

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<title>‘Runaway Dinner’: Wolf Wades Into Yellowstone River After Floating Rack Of Ribs | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A wildlife photographer said she was mesmerized watching Yellowstone’s Wapiti wolf pack devour an elk near a road. At one point, a “runaway dinner" rack of ribs tried to make a getaway down the Yellowstone River, but one persistent wolf went in after it.

‘Runaway Dinner’: Wolf Wades Into Yellowstone River After Floating Rack Of Ribs

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Lloyd Guy Shipley

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