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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, December 19. 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.

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President-elect Donald Trump has said that he won't direct the Department of Justice to go after former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney, but that doesn't mean he can't weigh in on or give a hint to what he thinks could happen to her once he takes office.

Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday that Cheney "could be in a lot of trouble" over alleged witness tampering, after a U.S. House subcommittee report released Tuesday called for a criminal investigation into her actions on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Politics reporter Leo Wolfson has the story.

"He's going to be appointing a new head, Attorney General and new Director of the FBI. Gives just more indication, one more step of indication, that a criminal investigation into former Congresswoman Liz Cheney will occur. Trump saying she could be in a lot of trouble, kind of gives you a clue there."

Cheney has been one of Trump's most vocal Republican critics since he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. She lost her 2022 reelection bid to U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman by a landslide margin.

Read the full story HERE.

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A project that seeks to create an entirely new kind of wind tower- one that's not only cheaper and more efficient, but also a lot shorter and much less visible on the landscape - will be reaching for the skies in January.

As with most ventures that happen outside in the Cowboy State, one of the first questions Airloom Energy has to answer is will it hold up to Wyoming's harsh, cold and windy winters? Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that Airloom will find that out next winter, 2025, thanks to an ambitious timeline that puts its building phase this spring and summer.

"This invention is leveraging wind in a slightly different way, to bring wind power in a smaller footprint with a, you know, less costly, more efficient.… All it takes to set them up is like a forklift… It's a Wyoming born and raised idea. This some a guy from Laramie thought this up… Their ambitious timeline is going to mean they have to test this idea during the winter. But I think it's perfect because, you know, it has to stand up to Wyoming weather, 365 days a year, and it's got to withstand all of them, even winter."

Airloom does have a lot of grassroots support as a Cowboy State-born company that intends to ultimately set up its home base and manufacturing in Wyoming,

Read the full story HERE.

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A Gillette man accused of trying to kill his wife by stabbing her repeatedly says he wasn't mentally well enough to rationalize his conduct at the time.

31-year-old John Bosh pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted second-degree murder a