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<title>‘A Gut Punch’: Nebraska Town Shell-Shocked By Tyson Closing Huge Beef Plant | Cowboy State Daily</title>

About 3,200 of Lexington, Nebraska’s 11,000 residents work at a huge Tyson Foods beef processing plant — for another month. News that the plant will close next month was an unexpected “gut punch” many fear will devastate this rural cow town.

‘A Gut Punch’: Nebraska Town Shell-Shocked By Tyson Closing Huge Beef Plant

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<title>Former Wyoming Governors Say Requests To Remove County Officials Unprecedented | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has received five clusters of complaints asking him to oust county officials from their offices. Three former Wyoming governors on Friday called that number unprecedented, citing growing political strife.

Former Wyoming Governors Say Requests To Remove County Officials Unprecedented

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<title>Daily Darwin: Saturday, December 20, 2025 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Repulsed by its owners belly , the mower chose dignity....

Daily Darwin: Saturday, December 20, 2025

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Mark Heinz

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<title>Cow Elk Stomps Mountain Lion In Desperate Bid To Save Calf | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Caught between wolves, mountain lions and grizzly bears, elk are struggling to fend off predators. A trail camera video shows the elk's desperation as it viciously pummels a mountain lion that has her calf by the neck.

Cow Elk Stomps Mountain Lion In Desperate Bid To Save Calf

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<title>You Still Here? Saturday, December 20, 2025 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Jim Gaffigan's favorite holiday jokes.....

You Still Here? Saturday, December 20, 2025

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Jimmy Orr

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<title>Lummis Announces She's Not Running For Re-Election | Cowboy State Daily</title>

U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, the first woman elected to the Senate from Wyoming, on Friday announced she is not running for a second term. She said, "“in the difficult, exhausting session weeks this fall I’ve come to accept that I do not have six more years in me.”

Lummis Announces She's Not Running For Re-Election

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