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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, July 17th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by Cheyenne Frontier Days, kicking off this weekend with Wyoming's own Ian Munsick and Travis Tritt Friday, Jordan Davis with Brett Young Saturday, and Bailey Zimmerman with Josh Ross on Sunday. Country music's biggest stars, only at Cheyenne Frontier Days! Don't miss the 129th Daddy of 'Em all, July 18-27th.

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A young, petite, pregnant woman found dead with beating and strangulation injuries 33 years ago in a ditch 15 miles north of Sheridan has been identified.

The woman who has been known as "I-90 Jane Doe" for the past three decades has been identified as Cindi Arleen Estrada by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland says Estrada was one of two Wyoming victims in the case of alleged serial killer Clark Perry Baldwin.

"I've been watching for this a while, because they identified Bitter Creek Betty, who was found March 1992 off the interstate in Sweetwater County, you know, with strangulation and other injuries, killed. And so then a month after that, they found a woman they called I-90 Jane Doe, petite, pregnant, young, also dead with strangulation marks in Sheridan off of the interstate."

Estrada was identified using her mother's DNA. Prior to the publication of this news story, there was essentially no publicly available information on Estrada online as she died before the internet age. All that is known is that she was born in Torrance, California, and was 21 years old when she was killed.

Read the full story HERE.

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Western Wyoming irrigators are frustrated after having their water shut off earlier than normal to send Colorado River Basin water downstream, despite what appeared to be a promising winter snowpack.

Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that an upcoming public meeting in Pinedale is one of four outreach meetings Wyoming officials are hosting to discuss the state's role in managing Colorado River water.

"The mighty Colorado River, you know, begins its life in Wyoming, and high in the Wind River Range, it feeds into the Upper Green River and the little Snake River. And so Wyoming is a part of this collective, this compact of states that's charged by Congress in a very old compact to manage that water… it's just such a massive watershed, you know, it drains the whole Rocky Mountains all the way to Mexico, and it's time to really pay attention to the fact that there's significantly less water every Year flowing down through that Colorado river system."

The amount of water Wyoming gets to keep as a member of the more than 100-year-old congressionally created Colorado River Compact will depend on what happens during negotiations over the next several months.

Read the full story HERE.

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If Republicans want to fine-tune their bill to claw back $9.4 billion in federal payouts, including defunding PBS and NPR, they're running out of time. The U.S. House has a legal deadline of Friday at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time to vote on the proposed $1.1 billion in cuts to public television and radio.

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