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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, October 14th. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the Wyoming Business Council. Wyoming youth are our future, but they're leaving the state at ALMOST TWICE the national average. What would bring them back home? Share your bold ideas with the Wyoming Business Council at wbc dot P U B forward slash story."

– Radiant Nuclear announced Monday afternoon that it will build its first nuclear microreactor manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, abandoning plans for a controversial project near Bar Nunn, after months of heated debate over spent nuclear fuel storage. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports the decision comes after Radiant repeatedly warned Wyoming officials that regulatory uncertainty could drive the company elsewhere.

"It's really shown a division between Republican legislators in Wyoming, Senator Ed Cooper was really… explicit about his criticisms toward the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, saying they're really going to have to answer…for erasing many years of economic development work. The Freedom Caucus responded and said, Hey, look, we're not against the industry. We're against waste."

Radiant says they will build their new factory on portions of the historic K-27 and K-29 Manhattan Project sites, with construction beginning in early 2026. Read the full story HERE.

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A Crook County man was shot in the neck while working cattle near Sundance. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Chase White was working on The Snooks Ranch, separating calves from their mothers alongside two other cowboys on the morning of October 4th, when he felt a sharp pain.

"He felt something, and it made him faint, and he sat down, and then he passed out. And he called two other cowboys that were with him, and they called 911…it wasn't until the doctors, the personnel at the hospital in Sundance, did an x ray that they were like, 'Have you ever been shot before?'because there was a bullet lodged in his chest. It had gone down through his neck, through both lungs, and came to rest near a rib."

Authorities have no idea where the bullet came from as the investigation continues. Chase was hospitalized for a full week in South Dakota and even though doctors won't remove the bullet from his ribs, he's expected to make a full recovery.

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– The Laramie County Sheriff's Office on Monday announced it has arrested a man on claims he hoarded more than 100 animals kept in despicable conditions. Cowboy State Daily's Jackson Walker reports all the animals have been taken to the Cheyenne Animal Shelter.

"Now, over 102 animals entered the animal shelter last Friday from this scenario, and this is really stretching the workforce at the animal shelter thin. There are dogs, there's cats, there's birds, there's tortoises, there's bunnies, all kinds of exotic animals, even a goat…I spoke to one worker today who said that they were at the shelter past midnight on that Friday night when all of these animals arrived. So the shelter workers are putting in a lot of hard work trying to keep all these animals safe and happy and cared for."

Authorities say they executed a search warrant at a home in Laramie County and discovered over 100 animals being kept there, including 22 dead animals. The sheriff's office is recommending multiple counts of felony aggravated cruelty to animals against Michael Ohern.

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