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t's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, August 8th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Wyoming State Fair! Beginning August 13th in Douglas, the Wyoming State Fair has something for everyone. For more info visit WY-STATE-FAIR dot com"

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The Campbell County Sheriff says a Wright, Wyoming, man who shot at a deputy just as the deputy exited his car Sunday has been identified as 55-year-old Christopher Morales.

Sheriff Scott Metheny told Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland that the deputy's body cam video shows that, just as the car dings to indicate that the deputy has opened his car door, Morales fires a shotgun.

"In that moment, the shotgun blast hits the windshield in front of the deputy, or very near to where the deputy was, and so we know that there had to be this split decision, duck back into the car, or rush out and take refuge behind it. Matheny said that the deputy followed his training in using the car as a shield. And then, of course, he yelled, 'drop the gun,' and he returned fire and he killed Morales on scene."

Metheny told Cowboy State Daily he believed that divine intervention was at work, protecting the deputy.

Read the full story HERE.

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Dede Anders knew she was too sick to ride 620 miles across Mongolia, then was abandoned halfway around the world Wednesday. The Powell woman was there to compete in the Mongol Derby, but race organizers left her in a hotel room without medical care.

Anders told Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi that she didn't even get to start the race.

"She recognized she wasn't well enough, and then all they did was they got a driver to take her back to Ulaanbaatar from the start, which was an eight hour car ride while she had a pretty intense gastrointestinal illness… She had to reserve her hotel herself through Expedia and find her own flight home. So to say she's not a happy camper is a bit of an understatement."

Anders said the earliest she'll be able to leave Mongolia is August 11th.

Read the full story HERE.

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Now that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris has selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate for this November's election, the midwestern politician's energy policies are in the spotlight.

No surprise, Walz is a big proponent, just like Harris, in pushing for clean energy initiatives - which for Wyoming, means a sharp turn away from fossil fuels, according to energy reporter Pat Maio.

"I think the buzzword here is green grid. He's big on that, going completely green on alternative forms of energy like wind and solar by 2040, which kind of aligns with the Biden administration. So it's going to be more of that with Tim Walz."

During his tenure as governor of Minnesota, Walz placed his state on track to transition to "clean" energy even faster than California, which for decades has been at the forefront of efforts to tackle climate change.

Read the full story HERE.

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Landon Brown's Republican primary opponent has resurrected a 2022 CNN interview in which he praised Liz Cheney