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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Monday, November 25th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation.

On Nov. 24, 1971, a passenger who checked in as "Dan Cooper" parachuted out of a Northwest flight somewhere between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle with $200,000 in ransom he'd received in exchange for sparing the lives of the passengers and crew.

Now Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that new evidence has been unveiled in the only unsolved hijacking in the nation's history - which may crack the 53-year-old case - one that points to a man named Richard McCoy, who pulled off a near copycat hijacking over Utah five months after D.B. Cooper jumped out of the plane.

"Dan Griner, who is a YouTuber and pilot, found this parachute, which is a modified military parachute…he found it in the outbuilding on the McCoy property in North Carolina… this parachute, in Dan's words, is one in a billion, and he feels it is the missing link that will finally connect Richard McCoy, who has long been a suspect by the FBI… Richard McCoy's daughter actually lives in southwestern Wyoming, and she, for a while now, has believed that Richard McCoy, her father is actually DB Cooper."

Unearthing and revealing the new evidence has become a mission for the McCoy children, to root out the deep family secrets that have shrouded them their entire lives.

Read the full story HERE.

Newcomers moving into politically red states such as Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are more likely to be Republicans, according to voter and state migration data. Many of them are moving out of blue states like Washington, Colorado and California, motivated by a desire to live in a place where a majority of voters are Republicans.

Cowboy State Daily's David Madison spoke to a GOP official in Billings, who said The migration may have helped Republicans retake the U.S. Senate this election.

"There's a data firm called L2 which is used by political consultants to pinpoint target voters, and it has a really fun feature in that you can track where newcomers to Wyoming and Montana came from based on prior voting registration records… L2 allowed … Cowboy State daily to do its own research using these databases. And it was both interesting and a little creepy that they have it down to your address and your cell phone number. You want to know why you got so many calls during the political season, it's because of these databases that have us all on a list."

In Wyoming, many of the new Republican votes migrated in from Colorado - others primarily came from California, Washington, Texas, Oregon, Utah and Montana.

Read the full story HERE.

The leadership positions for the 68th Wyoming Legislature have been decided.

State Sen. Bo Biteman of Ranchester, and Rep. Chip Neiman of Hulett, were named the top leaders in the Legislature as a result of Republican caucus elections held Saturday.

Politics reporter Leo Wolfson pointed out that although the farther right wing of the Republican Party have been named to the most critical leadership positions in the House, in the Senate, there wa