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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, September 26th. I'm Wendy Corr, 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.

– The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing Obama- and Biden-era rules around a common abortion-inducing drug, after attorneys general of 22 states, including Wyoming, urged the nation's top health officials to take a closer look at adverse events linked to the drug. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland spoke with the Wyoming Attorney General and reports many petitions like these come across his desk, but this one caught his attention.

"Attorney General Keith Kautz told me, look, when I get these, I look and see if this is even in Wyoming's interests and if there's merit to it. This study is from a partisan group, but it claims to have fairly reliable footing, sourcing claims across some 800,000 abortion cases. And what it says is that the adverse events that are associated with this drug are way higher than those listed on the label. Basically saying it's being passed off as less dangerous than it actually is."

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary responded to the Republican AGs' July 31 letter with their own, which surfaced publicly this week.

Read the story HERE.

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A body believed to be that of a 58-year-old elite endurance athlete and Cheyenne resident, James "Dingo" Dominguez, was found Wednesday.

Cowboy State Daily's Scott Schewbke reports Dominguez appears to have drowned in July when a specialized rowboat he was in capsized during a major storm on Flathead Lake near Polson, Montana.

"He's an elite endurance athlete, a former Marine, member of the Navy, worked for Homeland Security, and so he's also part of an organization called or word bound, which is an organization dedicated to rowing 16,000 miles across three oceans for charity. It's organization in Cheyenne, which is, has a has, like, there's just like three of them. So it's just like a small, probably informal organization, but they plan to row 16,000 miles between, starting in November. They're going to go across portion of the Atlantic in the Gulf of Mexico, and finish up in 2027."

His identical twin brother Jerry Dominguez told Cowboy State Daily on Thursday that the discovery ends a grueling two months for the family.

Read the story HERE.

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For more than a century, those in need of medical care in Sublette County were forced to drive more than 70 miles to get to a hospital. But Cowboy State Daily's Jackson Walker says that has changed now that Sublette County Health Hospital has opened its doors.

"This is a huge impact on people that need regular visits to the doctor. I also spoke to the owner of a cancer awareness nonprofit who told me that this facility specifically is going to mean a lot of really great things for women in the area. They're going to be able to get mammograms, they're going to be able to get the preventative treatment that they need and hopefully prevent some pretty bad health effects down the line. It was the only county in Wyoming not to have a hospital."