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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, October 8th. 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 backslash story."

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A Natrona County High School senior trying to launch a Turning Point USA Club America chapter believes her school principal may be infringing on her First Amendment rights and treating her club differently than others. Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports that the 17-year old student, Kylie Wall, said she approached Natrona County High School Principal Aaron Wilson three weeks ago about starting a TPUSA Club America chapter at the school.

"The president of that club says she's been being treated different by her principal than she's noticing the same club at Kelly Walsh High School, also in the district, has been treated. She's been told by the principal that she couldn't have a public meeting with Kelly Walsh group. We contacted the principal, and he said that he doesn't have any issues with the club, but we do know that there was a teacher who tore a poster off the wall after this student leader posted that about a meeting that was supposed to happen last night."

Wilson initially hesitated but did allow her to start a club that is associated with Turning Point USA.

Read the full story HERE.

– The family of the man who shot a Sheridan Police Department sergeant last year is suing law enforcement. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the family is saying that police should not have destroyed a home and fatally shot the man after the incident.

"I did go ahead and also obtain the decision letter in which the County's top prosecutor declined to prosecute Officer Michael Chand, the one who shot Lowry. And I also talked to Shand, who said, you know, I had no other choice. He was he'd been shooting at cops from the home where he barricaded himself. He fled with an AR 15. He appeared to me to be smiling, and he was rushing through this tight knit neighborhood toward other law enforcement, other people."

The lawsuit accuses Chand, Sheridan Police Chief Travis Koltiska, and other unknown "John Does" of wrongfully causing the Feb. 14, 2024, death of William Lowery, 46, who had shot Sheridan Police Sgt. Nevada Krinkee the day before.

Read the full story HERE.

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When former Obama-appointed, U.S. Attorney for Wyoming, Kip Crofts, first read about a reinvigorated push for passage of a Wyoming bill that would require Congress to authorize the deployment of their National Guardsmen, one of his first reactions was disgust. Cowboy State Daily's Steve Bohnel reports that Crofts thinks the president should be able to deploy the Guard when needed.

"He said, the legislature is fine to kind of, you know, duke it out over these constitutional issues, but given kind of the ineptitude of Congress, especially in recent years, he just feels that it's not the right position to kind of be pushing this agenda or kind of initiative."

Crofts went on to add that Congress already has put the federal government into a shutdown because of inaction and giving them the responsibility of deciding whether to deploy Wyoming's Nat