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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, September 29th. I'm Mac Watson, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom… Brought to you by Wyoming Interventional and Vascular Associates. WIVA offers the best solution for treating tired, aching and swollen legs, at Wyoming's only IAC-accredited vein facility. With virtually no downtime and minimal risks, if you're ready for relief, see what WIVA can do for you. Schedule a consultation at Casper Medical Imaging dot net, forward slash WIVA.

– Why would you pay about 2 mill for a used Gulfstream jet when you can possibly acquire a Fairchild C-119L Flying Boxcar military transport plane for $150? Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports that Big Horn County is selling the aircraft, mainly from the World War II and Cold War eras, after the Wyoming Supreme Court gave the go-ahead.

"So none of these aircraft are air worthy. They date back to the World War Two, Cold War era, and a lot of them have been used for parts over the years to manage similar planes that are still in the air. Big Horn county managed to get several of them. They're 16 up for auction through a convoluted, convoluted legal thing, but basically, someone who owned the planes wasn't paying their rent, and they didn't pay their rent, so they seized the assets, and now they're auctioning them off. So the thing is, you can buy some of these planes. The starting bids for some of them are as low as $25 and up to upwards of $500 to catch is you can buy it for cheap, but you have to move it or disassemble it on your own."

If you, or someone you know who would be interested in bidding on these aviation treasures, look up the website Public Surplus.

Read the story HERE.

– When former Casper resident, Sgt. Thomas L. Cotner disappeared without a trace in the Pacific during World War II, his family was left with unanswered questions like: "What happened to the B-17 that Tom and his crew members were flying in after returning from a successful bombing mission. Now, Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that, eight decades later, a man named Justin Taylor has some answers for the Cotner family.

"Pacific Wrecks is in a unique position, where it's out and about in the Pacific doing active research. And Justin Taylor was in another part of New Guinea when he heard about this discovery made by a logging crew that was building a road through a really remote and high elevation place in New Britain Island, New Guinea. And so he rushed to the scene. So that was really fortuitous that that he happened to be within reach and could get there within days. And then he's armed with all of these serial numbers for all the B seventeens that saw action in that part of the Pacific Theater. So he was the perfect guy, right place, right time, matched the wreckage, and then started doing these amazing deep dive research projects into each service member."

Sgt. Cotner was deployed to the Pacific and earned recognition for bravery in August of 1942. A month later, he and the other eight members of his B-17 Flying Fortress crew disappeared.

Read the story HERE.

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Wyoming's executive branch has told the state's highest court that if it doesn't reverse a judge's order expanding the legislature's public school funding expectations to include a computer for every student and other provisions, it'll amount to letting schools, not the legislature, determine school funding in Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland says the Tuesday filing by the Wyoming Attorney Gener