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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Thursday, February 6th. 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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Wyoming's congressional delegation cheered President Donald Trump on Wednesday as he signed an executive order aiming to prevent biological males from participating in girls' and women's sports in K-12 schools and higher education.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland said Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman attended the huge ceremony in the East Room of the White House and all three members of the delegation praised the president's action.

"Trump made this executive order, like we're not going to give federal funding to schools that do this, that let males participate in female-only sports… Senator Lummis … called it the women's rights issue of our time. But, you know, looking forward, Senator Barrasso indicated that in Congress, the legislation addressing this issue… the Republicans will still try to get that passed."

On the state level, there are, at least three bills pending right now, one from the Senate and two from the House that would rather let people aggrieved or harmed by transgender athlete participation sue schools or other government agencies.

Read the full story HERE.

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A coroner's report reveals significant problems at a Gillette assisted living center, where an 88-year-old resident died of hypothermia in January.

Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that the coroner's investigatory report released this week also revealed a second death at the Legacy Living and Rehabilitation center last year, and the terminations of multiple employees.

"The coroner finally got back and said it was hypothermia, and today, also in his release, was a bit of a bombshell in that he also… said, oh… there's a second investigation for a woman who died of an overdose, and that was in November, and he said it's also a police investigation, so this is the first I'd heard of that, so I'm trying to track that down too, and it's not clear if it was an intentional overdose or if it was a unintentional overdose."

The 160-bed Legacy facility currently has a ranking of one out of five by Medicare.gov, with five being the highest. The facility has been cited before for abuse.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Wyoming House committee advanced a bill on Wednesday that would make the Wyoming Attorney General an elected position.

Currently, the AG in Wyoming is a position appointed by the governor, who serves solely at the pleasure of the governor. Cowboy State Daily's Leo Wolfson reports that the bill's sponsor believes the attorney general needs to be more directly accountable to the people of Wyoming rather than the governor.

"There's a lot of ethical questions that come into play, as far as whether that person would just be more concerned about political agendas and running to possibly become governor someday, rather than serving the law and the people… this new law would basically make it so that the attorney general would be responsible responsive to the governor, the legislature and the Wyoming Supreme Court. But the caveat is that they wouldn't have to do as they are told by these people. They would work for them,