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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, August 14th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by Outrider PAC. According to a new survey, 79% of Wyoming Voters support Freedom in Education. Learn more about Educational Savings Accounts in Wyoming at OutriderPAC.com

Let's start out by taking a look at today's weather with Cowboy State Daily meteorologist Don Day.

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You can get Don's full forecast on the Cowboy State Daily website.

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A Virginia man allegedly stole a Yellowstone National Park heavy wrecker truck Saturday while drunk, plowed through a fence, fled on foot and when he was caught, pretended to be a U.S. marshal.

57-year-old Alan Rawlings Bowling has pleaded not guilty to nine criminal charges in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming, according to Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland.

"There were these reports that a man had tried to buy beer at the Old Faithful General Store, and his card was declined, and he goes out and he allegedly steals this heavy wrecker that Yellowstone service workers use and took off, you know, going the wrong way down one way roads and off roading, crashing through a fence that's property of the federal government, so they chased him through bison territory, which you know, bison sightings are frequent in that area. So that adds a whole other element to a normal crime scene."

If convicted, Bowling faces a potential maximum of 4 and a half years in jail and $45,000 in fines if convicted on all counts.

Read the full story HERE.

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About 40 people crowded into a dim basement room in the Laramie County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon to watch the county clerk test voting machines for the second time in eight days.

A second test of Laramie County's vote tallying equipment was performed at the request of the Laramie County Republican Party, which filed a complaint with the local district attorney over the first test to certify the voting machines Aug. 5. Politics reporter Leo Wolfson said the second test ran smoothly.

"The test was held in the basement of the Laramie County Courthouse. There was about 40 people who showed up to watch. Everything appeared to go rather smoothly. I spoke to Laramie County GOP committee man, Dallas Terrell, and he said that it really eased his concerns, and he feels fully confident in the voting machines for the upcoming elections. This was a result of a first test on the voting machines that did not go accordingly as they would have liked."

Responding to the lawsuit last week, Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee called it an effort to disrupt the current primary election and force her office to provide alternative means for counting ballots.

Read the full story HERE.

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Passengers aboard an Alaska Airlines flight bound for Jackson Hole were miffed last week after the pilot explained over the intercom that he could not land the plane at their destination.

Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols reports that the pilot instead diverted the flight to Salt Lake City - because he wasn't qualified to land the plane in Jackson.

"It appears to be weather related. He didn't have enough hours in that particular aircraft, I think, at a complex airport to land in. The weather conditions were not ideal, and I t