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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, October 9th. I'm Mac Watson, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center… "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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The Green River City Council has voted unanimously to abolish the use of a gas chamber for animal euthanasia, leaving just one known town in the United States to continue using the controversial practice. Cowboy State Daily's Jackson Walker reports the vote to use a different method of euthanasia was hailed by animal rights advocates.

"Moving forward, the town is going to agree not to euthanize animals using the gas chamber and instead lean on more humane methods such as lethal injection. Advocates say, however, that sometimes these lethal injections are a little more hazardous for veterinary workers who have to have direct contact with an animal instead of being behind a barrier, such as in the situation of a gas chamber. I was also told that sometimes these gas chambers are easier on a worker's mental health because they don't have to be directly involved in the process."

The only other town in America still using a gas chamber to euthanize animals is Evanston, Wyoming.

Read the full story HERE.

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In what started as an administrative rule discussion Wednesday in the State Building Commission, Secretary of State Chuck Gray reopened old criticisms against Gov. Mark Gordon. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the governor was ready to rebut some of Gray's claims and State Treasurer Curt Meier announced that he's sick of Gray interruptions.

"This time, a couple novel things happened. The governor seemed like he was expecting to get grief over a past veto letter, and he whipped out a physical copy of the letter and said, Maybe you'd like to read this. So that tells us like he was expecting this exact critique..And that was when treasurer Kurt Meyer was like, the Secretary is always using these meetings to make political points and pontificate…They eventually did unanimously vote to advance a rule change."

The initial discussion was on a rule change requiring Wyoming agencies to "endeavor" to negotiate concealed-carry permissions with private landlords whose buildings they lease.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is looking for a rare set of all-terrain vehicle tires matching a tread pattern left in a field, hoping it could help them solve a cold case of the murder of a Cheyenne mother more than 22 years ago. Cowboy State Daily's Scott Schwebke explains how these tires could help crack this case wide open.

"They believe they're a certain brand that they've been looking for, but they haven't been able to find the brand because it's no longer manufactured. So they're just putting out a call out to people that they have one of these tires to provide it to them …So one thing that's good about this is a tire is so rare that when they when they get it and they're able to confirm it, they'll be able to narrow the list of possible vehicles down, because not many vehicles have this kind of tire.

The badly beaten body of Shawny Lee Smith, who was 32 at the time, was discovered by a property owner on Feb. 8, 2003, in Weld County, Colorado, just a quarter mile from the Wyom