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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming! I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom, for Wednesday, May 22nd.

Although talk of a terrifying grizzly tag team duo in Grand Teton National Park has been circulating on the Internet, park officials say Sunday's mauling of a Massachusetts man was likely a mother grizzly defending her cub.

And a bear expert also told Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz that although to his knowledge there aren't any documented cases of two or more grizzlies attacking somebody at once, it's not completely impossible - but he says most grizzlies don't go around the woods looking for trouble.

"It's usually unfortunate circumstances that are surprised at close range. It's not unusual that Mama Bear wants to defend her cubs. That's usually how these things go. And, you know, bears aren't really a social animal. But he said it's not unknown for maybe young young sub adult bears that just kicked away from their mom, they might travel around in groups of two. But this was definitely a mother and at least one cub, which again, that fits the MO for for grizzly bear attacks. It's just people in the wrong place at the wrong time."

The man is still hospitalized in stable condition.

A Gillette woman is accused of flying into a rage and ramming her vehicle into the car of her boyfriend's mistress, all while doing a DoorDash delivery - to the mistress.

While reflecting on the charge of felony property destruction she now faces in Campbell County District Court, Amber Osborne told Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland that she admits her actions were wrong.

"She just said, 'I'm sorry for my actions. I regret doing that. You know, we took a break and he hooked up with this other girl, and then she and I were texting about it.' And then according to Miss Osborne, the other woman said something to the effect of, 'DoorDash a soda for me,' because Osborne's a DoorDash driver… And the way she later described it to the investigator was, 'I kind of saw red and went over there knowing I was gonna do something and ended up crashing into the car.'"

Though Cowboy State Daily has learned the identity of the other woman, she hasn't been charged in this case and could not be reached for comment by publication time.

The entire nation is experiencing unprecedented growth in demand for electricity, with Wyoming displaying some challenges of its own as is evidenced by construction of mammoth-sized data centers encircling its capital city.

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso told energy reporter Pat Maio on Tuesday that the amount of energy the country will need in five years is going to increase so much, it's like adding a whole new California.

"Senator Barrasso, like his colleagues on the committee, wants to ensure that we have enough electricity to meet future demand… the Biden administration is attacking the coal and oil and gas industries by… basically ending coal by 2041. And the hearing is to kind of point out the dilemma there that, look, we don't have enough power, you can't be doing this kind of thing, you know, shutting coal and oil gas fired plants down. You need to ensure the reliable sourcing of power, and that's going to be done through what we already have in our state, which is coal."

Barrasso said that the United States could be entering a period of sustained demand growth unlike anything seen since the two decades following World War II.

An Evansville man accused of killing another man during a drug deal gone bad argued he acted in self-defense, and asked the judge to reduce the bond, which is currently set at $750,000 dollars. That's laccording to Cowboy State Daily's Dale