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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, October 7th. 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 shocking discovery out of the Capitol in Washington D.C. as nine Republicans in Congress were informed that they were being spied on by the FBI. Cowboy State Daily's Sean Barry reports from DC that the bombshell revelation was announced Monday afternoon by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, and the junior senator from Wyoming was one of the nine.

"Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming was in for a shock today, told by FBI personnel that her name was on a memo during the Biden era. FBI her name, along with those of eight other Republican lawmakers being spied on. She was one of nine federal lawmakers in all on this memo, all of them Republicans being spied on in connection with the January 6 Capitol riot probe known as Arctic frost that, of course, led by Special Counsel Jack Smith."

Senator Lummis was informed of the document by FBI personnel at a Monday meeting just ahead of Grassley's release of the document, a spokesman for Lummis, told Cowboy State Daily in a phone interview.

Read the full interview HERE.

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A Cody man accused of killing a Cheyenne woman he'd been stalking in 2019 was sentenced Monday to a term of between 13 years, two months in prison – and 14-and-a-half years in prison. But as Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports, Underwood wasn't being sentenced for murder.

"Wyoming has a law that you have to be well enough to be well enough to understand what's going in court participate in your defense, and he was not. And so they they basically let him go Park County was like, absolutely not. We've got some stuff we can charge him with here, and that was disposing of a dead body to conceal a felony, possessing a firearm despite a prior violent felony conviction, interfering with police and eluding. And so they charge him with all four of those, which was what they had. And then on Monday, Judge Bill Simpson did go ahead and give the max on every single one."

Underwood received credit for the three years and three months he has spent in jail awaiting sentencing.

Read the full story HERE.

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President Donald Trump has focused efforts on sending the National Guard from numerous states, to control what he believes is unchecked crime in cities like Portland, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Cowboy State Daily's Steve Bohnel reports

one of Wyoming's two Democratic state senators said this shows why the Wyoming legislature should pass a bill aiming to protect the state's autonomy regarding those troops.

"It's just kind of a reminder that, there's been this law on the books, and it's important to note that there's a lot of Republicans that have signed on to this law in recent years. One of them is representative Daniel Singh but it's interesting him and some other legislatures have used kind of this argument that this bill should be on the books to prevent our national guard from being deployed in foreign wars, which is kind of a separate issue from what Senator Rothfuss had mentioned."

Specifically, the "Defend the Guard Act" has never passed the legislature but if it becam