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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Tuesday, February 11th. 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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The small town of Byron in rural Bighorn County was the scene of a tragedy Monday afternoon involving several people, and multiple gunshots.

Although not much information has been released officially, Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that a 911 call came in to the Sheriff's Department around 1:30 p.m., with reports of shots fired on the south side of town. Sheriff's personnel responded immediately, along with Wyoming Highway Patrol and Lovell Police Department personnel.

"The sheriff's office wasn't giving numbers. They said multiple people were found dead, multiple people suffered gunshot wounds, multiple were taken to the hospital. So I mean, we know of a gruesome gunshot scene, but we don't have a lot of specifics yet."

Some people were taken by ambulance to the North Big Horn Hospital in Lovell for emergency care. The sheriff has asked Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation to help process the scene.

Read the full story HERE.

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Rural mail under the Delivering for America Plan will be significantly slower, according to an analysis by the Postal Regulatory Commission.

Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the plan glosses over the difficulties for rural mail, and the commission determined that it is overall unlikely to "lay a foundation for success" for the troubled agency.

"The Postal Regulatory Commission is one of the regulators that oversees the Postal Service, and whenever the Postal Service does a change that's going to affect things nationwide or substantially nationwide, they're supposed to request an advisory opinion from that body, which they did not do when they originally proposed the delivering for America plan… according to their analysis, the delivering for American plan is relying on defective modeling. It is overly optimistic on cost savings, and there's not fully considering the negative impact this plan will have on rural communities like 49.1% of zip codes will have significantly downgraded service as a result of this plan, according to their analysis."

The analysis, released Jan. 31, was part of a non-binding review of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Delivering for America Plan, which has attracted criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers.

Read the full story HERE.

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It's not often a state lawmaker harshly criticizes a fellow colleague publicly, but that's what happened Monday morning when state Rep. Steve Harshman of Casper, called out fellow lawmaker Rep. John Bear of Gillette, for labeling fellow lawmakers "lobbyists" in an op-ed Bear wrote in Cowboy State Daily last week.

According to politics reporter Leo Wolfson, Harshman called the accusation "reprehensible" and said he believes all legislators make their votes out of consideration for what will best represent their co