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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, October 13th. 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."

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Remains found Saturday morning near rural Gering, Nebraska, may be that of Moorcroft man Chance Englebert, who mysteriously disappeared in July of 2019. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that Englebert's family and a private investigator have been working tirelessly to solve the disappearance.

"The second he disappeared from Moorcroft, the family was extremely concerned, because, of course, he had been to a family vacation with his in-laws in Gering, Nebraska, and when he disappeared that night everybody, it threw everybody, including the family. Because this is not a guy who would disappear. This is not a guy who would walk away from his life willingly. He was a young dad, 25 at the time."

The remains were discovered in Scotts Bluff National Monument, about four miles from where Englebert was last seen on video surveillance walking alone in a neighboring town.

Read the full story HERE.

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100 years ago, the Midwest Oil and Refining company set up lights that would re-define when and how the nation's high school athletes could play.

It was the first high school game in the nation to play at night under electric lights. This past Friday, under the lights, Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck was there to mark the 100 year anniversary and the football used at that game was brought out at halftime.

"In Midwest on Friday night, they celebrated a century of Friday Night Light and actually the first game was played on a Thursday back in 1925 on November 19. But their schedule doesn't go to November 19th, so they celebrated 100 years this past Friday, and the team now plays a six-man game instead of 11.

The local Salt Creek Museum brought out the white football used in the 1925 Yellow Dogs game to allow the 2025 football team to take a team photo with the historic ball.

Read the full story HERE.

– A new, national report says that Americans are eating less sugar, thanks in part to weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic. But Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that Wyoming farmers are saying that's not the real reason that prices in the sugar beet market have plunged 33% year-over-year.

"Some countries subsidize sugar so much that it really kind of amounts to dumping the cost of their sugar is so far below the cost to produce, it's anti competitive. I'm told by the Wyoming sugar beet growers that…it got worse under Biden's administration. He evidently wasn't calculating something correctly about that, and so he let in too much of this ultra low cost sugar."

Wyoming Sugar Company CEO Mike Greear told Cowboy State Daily that there is also a trend toward higher protein items and so there is a decrease in the demand for sugar.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Laramie man who has faced medical hardships since a bone