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An archery hunter was attacked by a grizzly in the Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming early Thursday morning, suffering severe bite wounds to his thigh before shooting the bear dead with his handgun.

31-year-old Landon Clement of Blue Ridge, Georgia, was still being treated at the Pinedale Clinic when Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reached out.

"He was posted up, kind of up against a flat rock, kind of scanning the area, looking for elk. And he saw a mother with two, sound like two year old, pretty much fully grown cubs coming down, and then they came across in front of him in the way he - or at least the way that he described it to his friend who described it to me - the Mother Bear scented him, charged at him. He opened fire. She sank her teeth into his leg. His pistol jammed at one point, but he managed to clear the jam and keep firing. Hit the bear in the head and killed it."

Clement had 3-inch deep bite wounds "on both the top and bottom" side of his thigh - but his friend, who spoke with Cowboy State Daily, said he's optimistic about Clement's chances of a full recovery.

Read the full story HERE.

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A fake social media post claiming a student had been shot at East High School in Cheyenne triggered local parents into a frenzy of fear and worry Thursday afternoon.

School officials locked down the building after a school resource officer got a tip from a student that another student "was carrying a firearm." That's what a Cheyenne Police Department spokesperson told Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson.

"They… did their due diligence, cleared the school, got things out of the way, but in the meantime, someone had posted a fake story on social media with a big headline in all caps that a child was shot in the parking lot of East High School, which did not happen, but it sparked some some fear, some frustration with parents who were calling the police department and the school to find out what, what was, what was going on."

Although the post was determined to be a fake, the police department and school administrators will always take reports of weapons or potential violence seriously.

Read the full story HERE.

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Details are still sparse on a Rock Springs High School teacher's discovery of a firearm on campus Thursday morning, but the local police department says it does not look like a case of a teen accidentally bringing his hunting rifle to school.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the high school had a scheduled evacuation drill just before 9 a.m. Thursday. During the drill, a teacher learned of a weapon in the school, contacted administration and confiscated the weapon.

"When I hear a gun has been found on campus, lifelong Wyomingite, my mind goes to oh, maybe he is going hunting after school and he forgot in the back of his truck. So I specifically asked, Is this the case? And she said, No, we don't think that was the case. And she also confirmed that it wasn't a hunting rifle. She did, however, say it was unloade