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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, June 7th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - presented by Cheyenne Frontier Days. From sun-up to sun-down - there's something for everyone! Check it out at C-F-D RODEO DOT COM!!

An Evansville-area couple is pleading for help from the Natrona County Board of Commissioners regarding a trigger-happy neighbor whose bullets have reportedly ricocheted around the neighborhood, hit the sides of at least one home and damaged a real estate sign.

Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports that Leanne and Calvin Cadwell told the board that the rural neighborhood northeast of Casper is in fear of someone being hit by a stray bullet.

"I did speak to the sheriff's department today… They said they've responded to two incidents out there since 2023. And that they've talked to the person that does the shooting, and they had said they would modify what they do. But that was not the story last night at the county commission."

Photos presented to the county commissioners and Cowboy State Daily show a real estate sign with multiple bullet holes and ricochet marks, a spent bullet, and multiple photos of bullet holes in home siding.

Pamela Mertens moved to Wyoming in August 2023 from Florida and now she's running for House District 56. Tom Olmstead is running for Senate District 20 after moving from Colorado three years ago. They aren't anomalies, reports Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson - it's a trend.

"There's at least a handful of people around Wyoming who are running for the state legislature who moved to the state within the last five years. It's an interesting move, when considering that someone, it usually takes a little time for someone to learn the culture and the biggest problems and issues that are occurring in their local community."

Wyoming likely has one of the lowest barriers for entry into a legislature in the country. State law requires one year of residency from the time a legislator starts their term in office to serve.

The federal government has charged a 62-year-old Fremont County woman with witness tampering on claims she tried to keep an accused child-torturer's children from talking to investigators.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Karen Rider - the mother of accused child-torturer Kandace Sitting Eagle - is accused of giving one of the children laxatives before his FBI interview.

"When she took the children down for an FBI interview here in the weeks preceding Sitting Eagles trial, she fed one of them coffee and prune juice and chips hoping he'd be on the toilet the entire time, and she'd have to go help him, and this calamity would prevent him from being interviewed. And so the feds are saying that she … detailed this game while on a jail call with her daughter."

Sitting Eagle is headed to trial this month on assault charges for allegedly torturing her 13-year-old son in her home on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

I'll be back with more news, right after this.

On Tuesday, the chairman of Campbell County's board of commissioners leveled harsh words at coal industry officials who WEREN'T at a public hearing in Gillette to discuss the pounding policy attacks coming out of Washington, D.C., that could one day kill off coal mining in the energy-rich Powder River Basin.

But those officials say that they weren't snubbing the commission - instead, they were in Cody for the Wyoming Mining Association's annual meeting to discuss those same concerns, which could effectively topple the region's economy. Energy reporter Pat Maio was in Cody for the meeting, an