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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, July 19th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by Wyoming Senior Olympics, reminding you that this year's Summer Olympics start July 31st in Cheyenne - and volunteers are needed! Become a volunteer today at Wyoming senior Olympics dot org.

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso chased down and confronted the head of the Secret Service during the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, demanding answers to security breakdowns that allowed an assassination attempt on former President Trump's life during a political rally this weekend.

Politics reporter Leo Wolfson reports that Wyoming's senior senator was uncharacteristically direct with Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

"Wyoming Senator John Barrasso is not known for being the most temperamental person in Congress by any stretch of the imagination. He's usually very friendly even when he's criticizing people... But this was not the John Barrasso that we saw on Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Him and Marsha Blackburn, the Republican from Tennessee, really kind of cornered the head of the Secret Service, Cheatle, and Barrasso basically started yelling point blank at her as she started to walk away from the senators and wouldn't really address their concerns directly."

The Department of Homeland Security has opened a second investigation into the U.S. Secret Service for its handling of the attempted assassination.

Read the full story HERE.

A large male grizzly bear that's been smashing house windows, breaking into vehicles and raising Hell in the tiny Yellowstone gateway town of Gardiner, Montana, may have been killed by wildlife agents on Thursday.

Although the bear's fate remained uncertain that afternoon, the consensus among locals who spoke with outdoors reporter Mark Heinz was that its behavior escalated to an unsafe point where it likely had to be put down.

"I talked to a lady… she was away from her home and got a text message from her neighbor. 'Hey, the bear's trying to break into your house, you better come home.' So lady races home and she finds the bear hanging halfway in one of her windows. And so what she does is, she drives her car at it. That's how she scared the bear away…there's been stuff like this happening left and right with this particular bear."

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks was not able to confirm the bear's death as of press time, but one local with knowledge of the situation told Heinz that the bear was put down Thursday morning.

Read the full story HERE.

Nuclear technology innovator BWX Technologies agreed to work with the Wyoming Energy Authority to evaluate requirements on where to build a potential nuclear fuel factory in Wyoming.

Energy reporter Pat Maio Maio reports that hundreds of millions of dollars could be needed to build the kind of nuclear fuel fabrication factory necessary to power the commercial micro nuclear reactors being designed by BWX Technologies and others. "They're gonna look at different sites, what makes sense, they'll look at engineering costs, they'll look at plant cost to build this thing… this is a big deal in the sense that we have this mining rush going on in the uranium industry… a new factory could run hundreds of millions of dollars in investment in the state of Wyoming."

Maio spoke to some of the state's nuclear insiders, who have been discussing for months whether the state has a shot at get