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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Friday, February 7th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by the Wyoming Senior Olympics! Experience the excitement of the Winter Games, February 20–22 in Pinedale, and support the SAFE Initiative. For event details and the full schedule, visit wyoming senior olympics dot com.

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When a truck collision turned into a three-man fight Saturday at a bonfire party spot outside Reliance, the girlfriend of one of the brawlers shot the other two.

Court documents allege that 16-year-old Addisyn Fisher of Rock Springs is charged as an adult in Rock Springs Circuit Court with two counts of aggravated assault. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that one of the victims suffered a gunshot wound in his neck or jaw area, and another was shot through the hand.

"Usually we do not identify juveniles charged with crimes unless they are charged as adults, and that was the case here… the claim is that her boyfriend was chasing this other truck down with his truck and rammed into it. And so another guy saw this and got mad, and then the driver of the truck got mad, and then the one was supposedly holding Fisher's boyfriend down while the other punched according to witness interviews, and the witnesses and the victims said that Fisher kind of rounded the truck With a gun in her hand and shot the two men that were then winning the fight against her boyfriend."

Fisher was arrested without incident Monday. She posted a cash or surety bond of $50,000.

Read the full story HERE.

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The 2025 Wyoming legislative session reached its halfway mark on Thursday.

Politics reporter Leo Wolfson observes that the session looks and feels distinctly different from years' past.

"There's a few things that have definitely jumped out to me. One is kind of the sheer predictability of every vote in the House… the Freedom Caucus legislators are very much… aligned. They're very obedient to their cause, for what that's worth, and they are voting extremely consistently together… their side is winning on… almost every single vote… the Democrats and the non Freedom Caucus Republicans have been on the losing side of nearly every vote, whether it's an amendment or a main Bill vote as well… They've been also taking a very, very Razor's eye approach to the budget… they're opposing a lot of additions that were being proposed to be made to the budget."

The 2025 legislative session is schedule to end in mid-March.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Bureau of Land Management's controversial management plan for millions of acres in the Rock Springs area has been shut down by President Donald Trump's administration.

Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports, though, that there's uncertainty from all directions on what happens next.

"I talked to one of the Sweetwater County Commissioners today, what that means for them is… they got homework now they got… to go back to the drawing board and decide what the next move is going to be… there has to be some sort of resource management plan for the Rock Springs office. The one in place is… I think it's decades old the resource management plan. So, you know, I think there's consensus that something needs to be crafted and put forward."

The BLM manages about 3.6 million acres of land from the Rock Springs office, the bulk of it in Sweetwater Count