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<title>Wyoming Starts December Warmer Than Normal, But Expect Snow By Christmas | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Temperatures will be between 10 and 15 degrees above average this first week of December in Wyoming. But that doesn’t mean a white Christmas isn’t on the way. Don Day says there’s a good chance for snow then.

Wyoming Starts December Warmer Than Normal, But Expect Snow By Christmas

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Renée Jean

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Mining

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<title>Turkish Company Offers $285 Million To Buy Interest In Huge Wyoming Trona Mine | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Sisecam, a Turkish company, is offering $285 million to buy out a minority stake in one of Wyoming’s huge new trona mines.

Turkish Company Offers $285 Million To Buy Interest In Huge Wyoming Trona Mine

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Clair McFarland

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<title>Wyoming Sues Huge Investors For Pushing “Climate Activist Agenda” To Kill Coal | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming and 10 other states are accusing three massive investors of colluding to downsize coal companies to achieve net-zero carbon emissions goals. They’re using their power as large stockholders to push “a climate activist agenda.”

Wyoming Sues Huge Investors For Pushing “Climate Activist Agenda” To Kill Coal

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Leo Wolfson

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Executive

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<title>Bird, Not Controversial New LDS Temple, To Blame For Cody Power Outages | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A flurry of angry social media posts say construction of a controversial new LDS temple caused a series of power outages in Cody on Sunday and Monday. But they’re wrong. The city says a bird fried by a power line is to blame.

Bird, Not Controversial New LDS Temple, To Blame For Cody Power Outages

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<title>Wyoming Man Agrees To Plead Guilty To Trying To Kidnap Teen Girl | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A man from St. Stephens, Wyoming, has agreed to plead guilty to trying to kidnap a teen girl from a Riverton movie theater in 2022. The girl managed to fight Terrence Jenkins off even after he held a knife to her neck, court documents say.

Wyoming Man Agrees To Plead Guilty To Trying To Kidnap Teen Girl

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Mark Heinz

Outdoors

Wildlife

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<title>Hunter Baffled By Elk’s Weirdly Deformed Hooves | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A Colorado hunter killed a cow elk last week that looked normal and healthy — except for some weirdly deformed hooves. Biologists say the elk is not a mutant, but the bizarre hoof deformities mirror the effects of an elk disease that’s spreading in other states.

Hunter Baffled By Elk’s Weirdly Deformed Hooves

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