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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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<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

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Outdoors

Hunting

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<title>Committee OK's Bill To Cap Landowner Hunting Tags, Leaving More For Public | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming hunters say it’s unfair when big game hunting tags in some areas all go to landowners. A legislative committee advanced a bill Wednesday that could cap landowner tag allocations at 40% under some circumstances.

Committee OK's Bill To Cap Landowner Hunting Tags, Leaving More For Public

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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

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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