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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. Kick off Cheyenne Frontier Days' first weekend - July 18‑20 - with Wyoming's own Ian Munsick and Travis Tritt, Jordan Davis with Brett Young, and Bailey Zimmerman with Josh Ross. 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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As Wyoming aspires to be an energy powerhouse, a new generation of cybersecurity defenders is training in Wyoming and at the Idaho National Lab.

Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that as AI booms, this state-of-the-art cybersecurity training represents a critical, but often overlooked, component of any energy boom.

"Laramie County Community College is one of the leading places in the country to learn how to protect the infrastructure, the grid, the operating system of any energy venture out there in Wyoming. And so as we report on all these different sectors expanding alongside them is expanding this world of cybersecurity. Luckily, Wyoming has this great resource at L Triple C and the Idaho National Lab is that it's kind of the Pentagon. It really is the kind of overseeing this whole protecting our electrical and energy sector."

Wyoming has already experienced cyber-related threats. In June 2021, Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington was the target of a cyberattack that disabled the institution's computer, phone and email systems for several days.

Read the full story HERE.

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The man killed in an officer-involved shooting Monday in Worland has been identified as Worland resident 37-year-old Derek Fyffe.

The Worland Police Department said officers found him standing outside his vehicle, and he darted into his vehicle as they approached. When he did exit, he fought officers, produced a handgun and fired at the four police officers on scene. Two officers shot back, and he died on scene.

But Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that this was not the first time Fyffe was involved in an altercation with police.

"I did find an incident of violence toward police back in 2017 around New Year's Day, when he tried to bite a deputy that came to help secure him in a restraint chair, because he was being very aggressive once taken into the jail… he was sentenced to four years probation on that one, and he was released from probation in 2021. He also had a probation stemming from another drug charge that was only two years and it was around the same time."

One police officer sustained non-life-threatening gunshot injuries in the incident, and was briefly hospitalized at the Washakie Medical Center. The two officers who shot Fyffe are on paid administrative leave during the investigation.

Read the full story HERE.

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