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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, December 27th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom.

Frustration is growing for Wyoming postal customers, who are seeing packages bounce around the map in what looks like a giant game of postal pingpong.

Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean spoke to postal customers who were anxiously awaiting packages, but tracking their mail on the postal service website was nearly head-spinning.

"A fellow from Pavillion ordered a package. It went out of Denver, back to Denver, out of Denver, then it went on a pretty circuitous route, you know, from Cheyenne to Casper to Baggs to Rawlins, back to Casper, out to Riverton and finally to Pavillion. The shipping label for that was made on November 30. He didn't get his package until December the ninth… There's another lady that sent me hers, and hers went from Denver to Cheyenne back to Grand Junction Colorado, back to Cheyenne, back to Grand Junction. So, I mean, it's really, it's like a ping pong ball."

Cowboy State Daily has specifically requested an explanation on why packages are taking such circuitous routes to arrive at their destinations, but an answer had not been received by press time.

Read the full story HERE.

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A high-speed Christmas Day joyride that covered more than 100 miles ended abruptly when the 16-year-old juvenile offender who allegedly stole his mother's car while on furlough from jail crashed into a tree.

Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that the teen wasn't hurt and was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon by a Wheatland Police Department officer, but not before attempts to elude multiple law enforcement agencies from Cheyenne to Wheatland.

"It seems letting a juvenile offender out on a furlough for the holidays didn't really pay off too well for officials in Cheyenne, because he got home and… allegedly, stole his mother's car and led police on a long along high speed chase over 100 miles up by 25 up past north of Wheatland, and then up onto some county roads and some other highways all around that Platte County area… he avoided some spike strips, but eventually they they got him cornered and he hit a tree. Was okay… But everyone involved… all said that it was very fortunate that it happened on a holiday… because there was so little traffic on the road that it lessened the danger to other people out on the road."

What the teen was in the juvenile detention center for wasn't available, nor are the charges he faces in relation to the alleged stolen car and pursuit.

Read the full story HERE.

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A complete free-for-all is being declared on smaller lake trout and burbot in Flaming Gorge reservoir, exciting fishermen who have watched populations of the reservoir's prized fish decline.

An infiltration of small lake trout has been a chronic problem, because they keep eating Flaming Gorge's prized kokanee salmon. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that two fishing contests will take place in early 2025 aimed at pulling gobs of s