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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, November 3rd. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "Brought to you by the University of Wyoming Center on Aging. Did you know that 1 in 3 Wyoming adults have pre-diabetes, and most don't realize it? Are you tough enough to know your numbers? Take the quiz at: Find Out WY dot org."

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It's not a matter of "if", but "when" humans will start competing against robots in combat sports. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that The Wyoming Combat Sports Commission is ready and has drafted the nation's first rules for "synthetic combat."

"Now this is already happening. If you drive past a jiu jitsu studio, there could be a robot in there that they're grappling with that is trained to test you and grow your skills. Now this is really science fiction like, right? But it's it, it's it's a logical next step that if fighters are training on robots, according to a fighter I spoke to in Cheyenne, the next step is competition, and Wyoming appears to be leading the way and coming with rules and trying to protect the human involved, of course, and that was emphasized by the folks we spoke to."

Bryan Pedersen, who is the chair of the Wyoming Combat Sports Commission and managing director at RBC Wealth Management in Cheyenne, tells Cowboy State Daily that because he is seeing more videos and discussions about 'fighting robots' that inspired him to draft the rules for "hybrid bouts" where humans would compete directly against machines, and creates licensing requirements for robot operators similar to those for trainers and referees.

Read the full story HERE.

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Nearly 50 years ago, a 20-year-old Casper woman named Celeste Hensley Greub vanished and was never found. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that today the son of one of those Wyoming searchers is on a mission to find her and has a theory of where to start his search.

"John now saw a post on Facebook about Celeste being missing, and there's more energy to finding her now……John is planning to search Misty Moon Lake, which is in the Big Horns, where the general consensus is that Celeste is in that lake, whether by foul play or whether she accidentally fell in….and the problem is it's very expensive to do so…local Search and Rescue have told him, 'Yes, we're we're interested in that tip. However, we don't have the funding to do it.' It's incredibly expensive to fly the boat and all the equipment necessary."

Celeste, her aunt, and a family friend went camping near Misty Moon Lake in the Cloud Peak Wilderness. Her two companions left Celeste alone to climb to the top of the peak because she had been too tired to join them. When the women came back to camp around 5PM that day, Celeste was gone and has never been seen since.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Buffalo, Wyoming-area elk hunter claims that he and others are denied hunting opportunities by a landowner hoarding the herd by deliberately driving elk away from public land. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports whether this practice is illegal or just bad sport.

"I've heard all kinds of stories of people using horses, ATVs, even aircraft to push elk where they want them to go. In other words, the outfitter or the rancher who stands to gain money from keeping those animals on their land where they can be hunted for a fee, will deliberately push animals away from public land onto private land, which is ethically, questionable at be