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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Monday, April 14th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by Wyoming Community Gas. The Choice Gas selection period ends on Wednesday April 23rd – This is your opportunity to select your Natural Gas Provider for the coming year. For more information, visit Wyoming Community Gas dot ORG."

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Wyoming Representative Harriet Hageman sent a letter to the federal transportation department Thursday, urging the removal of a regulation that keeps non-English-speaking commercial truck drivers on the roads.

Before the Obama-era memorandum, truck inspectors could put non-English speaking truckers out of service. And since its implementation, American large-truck fatalities have risen drastically.

Hageman's letter challenges the 2016 memorandum. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Hageman urged the Department of Transportation to consider whether that memorandum is now ripe to be rescinded.

"Back in February, I reported that Wyoming truckers are like, whoa… a lot of the truckers can't speak English. We can't help them on the road. They can't order fuel. Like, how does this affect their driving?... I pushed the delegation and pushed the White House to find out if anyone was pushing to remove that memo, to find out if anyone was actually advocating action on this.… So this past week, when Representative Hageman sent a letter to the Department of Transportation Secretary like, consider rescinding this Obama era memo. It does not seem like it fits Trump's administration. It was the first real action I'd seen, at least from Wyoming's corner of the world, where someone was actually trying to get that rule lifted."

To Shannon Everett, co-founder of trucker advocacy group American Truckers United, Hageman's letter came as a welcome surprise. He told Cowboy State Daily on Friday that his group has been trying to incite awareness and action of this exact issue in state legislatures and the federal government for nearly a year.

Read the full story HERE.

– Robert "Rob" O'Neill, the U.S. Navy SEAL who is credited with killing Osama bin Laden — at the time the most wanted man on earth — told Cowboy State Daily that in the moments before he put three bullets in the head of bin Laden, O'Neill thought he was the one about to die.

In an interview with Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols morning radio show last week, O'Neill reflected on the secrecy, intensity and the precarious final moments of one of the most consequential missions in modern military history.

"This is why we all joined. And it was almost a Braveheart moment, like because anyone could have taken themselves off the mission at any time… So we went in the house. My guys were already there that killed three terrorists before I even entered the house… There was one guy in front of me at this point. I was number two… He moved the curtain. He tackled two people that he thought were suicide bombers. So he jumped on a grenade that didn't go off. And how he doesn't have a Medal of Honor yet, I'll never know… because he went one way, I went one way, I went the other. There's bin Laden standing there. He's three feet away. His hands are on his wife's shoulders, who's right in front of him. Her name is Amal… So I shot him three times