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Wyoming cybersecurity experts warn about a growing threat going into the holiday season — scanning QR codes with your phone. If you’re not careful, they can be yet another way digital thieves can rob you blind.

Be Cautious With QR Codes: The Latest Scams Are Ingenious

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Andrew Rossi

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<title>How Wyoming Ranchers Rescued A 1,500-Year-Old… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

The Great Turtle Shield, a priceless 1,500-year-old rock carving was chiseled away from Wyoming's Castle Garden Petroglyph Site in 1940. Furious ranchers let it be known if it wasn't found, "legs would be broken." Shortly thereafter, it was anonymously recovered.

How Wyoming Ranchers Rescued A 1,500-Year-Old Petroglyph Vandals Chiseled Out Of Cliff Wall

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Renée Jean

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<title>It Takes A Makeshift City To Support The Nearly… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

There are nearly 1,000 firefighters and support personnel assigned to the Rocky Mountain Area Complex Incident Management Team fighting the Elk Fire in northern Wyoming. It takes a makeshift city to support them all.

It Takes A Makeshift City To Support The Nearly 1,000 Elk Fire Firefighters

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Dale Killingbeck

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<title>Bill Sniffin Visits Yellowstone For 54th Year In… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Cowboy State Daily columnist Bill Sniffin could be Yellowstone National Park's biggest fan. He made his first trip there in October, 1970, and has visited the Park at least once every year for the past 54 years.

Bill Sniffin Visits Yellowstone For 54th Year In A Row

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Jackie Dorothy

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<title>Wyoming Grower Expects To Bring In 525,000 Tons… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

It’s harvest time for Wyoming’s sugar beet growers, and it looks like they’ve had a good season. For Worland-area grower Jim Miller, it’s been a good year. He expect to bring in about 525,000 tons of super-sweet sugar beets.

Wyoming Grower Expects To Bring In 525,000 Tons Of Super-Sweet Sugar Beets

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<title>At 14, Dale Warner Threatened School Killings In… | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Dale Warner was 14 when he brought two guns to a Wyoming junior high school and threatened to kill people. Now 20 and serving a 12- to 20-year sentence, he says prison saved his life.

At 14, Dale Warner Threatened School Killings In Gillette; Now He Says Prison Saved His Life

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