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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Tuesday, June 10th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by the Wyoming Community Foundation, who asks you to give back to the place you call home. "5 to thrive" is YOUR opportunity to leave a legacy for generations to come. Support the community nonprofits you care about with a gift through the Wyoming Community Foundation. Visit wycf.org to learn more.

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Three women renewed their lawsuit against a sorority Monday over a transgender member allowed in its Wyoming chapter.

The civil lawsuit of a handful of Kappa Kappa Gamma members suing sorority leadership over the induction of a transgender member was filed as a proposed action Monday, with just three of the original seven plaintiffs remaining, according to crime and courts reporter Clair McFarland.

"The women who are suing Kappa Kappa Gamma, saying it breached contract, broke good faith to induct a transgender member back in 2022, they repackaged their lawsuit, and we kind of knew that was coming, because the they lost, and then the appeals court said, This doesn't look like it's in our court yet. You need to try refiling with the lower court… but the original seven dwindled down to six… is now at three, so there's three women left fighting this lawsuit that's just been a saga here in Wyoming."

The lawsuit raises a question of how involved, if at all, University of Wyoming officials were in the transgender student's induction. The University has said it was not involved in the student's induction.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Los Angeles rioting over ICE raids has deepened political divisions on Capitol Hill, where the Senate on Monday resumed work on the massive budget bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

The bill has dominated senators' time as of late, but Cowboy State Daily's Sean Barry reports that the riots have opened a new partisan battlefront.

"The major story on Capitol Hill is how the Senate's going to get through the one big, beautiful Bill Act, a giant package of tax cuts, spending measures… But this rioting out in LA has certainly gotten the attention of Wyoming's members of Congress… Wyoming's members of Congress have seized on the rioting in California… to try to draw a distinction between the two political parties… basically the Republicans are saying, Hey, we're the party of law and order. We're the party of getting tough on immigration. This sort of thing does not happen on our watch."

The violence has gone on for days. Five Los Angeles Police Department officers were reported hurt Monday. Arrests have numbered in the dozens amid torched cars and looted stores.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Trump administration is pushing to move ahead with granting approvals for a 5,000-well oil and gas project in Converse County.

Despite a previous court order halting permitting for the project, which was approved in December 2020 under the first Trump administration, Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that the Bureau of Land Management has found no significant new impacts to groundwater resources, opening the door for the project to mo