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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, October 29th. Bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily news center, I'm Mac Watson. "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 forward slash story."

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A rumor that Ukrainian President Zelensky is buying the 916,000-acre Pathfinder Ranch in Wyoming spread like wildfire Monday. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that the rumors aren't true. However, an offer made by someone on the almost 80 million dollar ranch.

"Some guy on X, some with some strange name, made a post claiming that

that a company with ties to Zelensky was buying the Path Finder ranches. He didn't attribute any of that information to anybody…it pointed you to a website that looked exactly like the swan Land Company, but the address was.us instead of.com…The real Swan Land Company is the.com…I'm told by the real estate company that was an American cattle rancher. So it's going back into cattle ranching."

The Pathfinder Ranch is massive; larger than the state of Rhode Island, and bigger than New York City and Los Angeles combined.

Read the full story HERE.

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With the federal government shutdown going into a month, the federal government's suspension of SNAP benefits has blue states suing the Trump administration. But Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that in Wyoming, the Freedom Caucus and State Rep. Trey Sherwood, a self-described "grassroots Democrat" of Laramie, have responded by quoting the same Bible verse.

"They're both quoting the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus calls for people to go out and serve the needy, saying he's represented in the needy. And the reason they're doing that is, I mean, perhaps in part, because there's not a lot the Wyoming Legislature can do in its political function right now without going into a special session, they can't set up special funding. The governor said he was exploring options, but the state can't just transfer the SNAP program into its own control out of its own coffers. So right now, lawmakers are seeing their function as rallying their communities, serving others themselves, galvanizing that support."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced early Tuesday that federal Supplemental Nutrition Program Assistance or SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, won't be distributed starting Nov. 1 as scheduled because of the federal government's weekslong shutdown.

Read the full story HERE.

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After an eight-year investigation, 10 people have been busted, accused of faking Wyoming residency to get hunting tags in a Sweetwater County scam. Outdoors Reporter Mark Heinz reports that the Wyoming Game and Fish Department announced the violations on Monday.

"What it boiled down to, is people, multiple individuals, were lying about their Wyoming residency to get resident hunting tags versus non resident hunting tags, which there's a significant price difference. The resident tags are far less expensive. And so they had been running the scam for a while, and they finally wrapped up…Looks like these people all took plea agreements, but yeah, some pretty serious charges against multiple individuals coming out of this."

A spokesperson from Game and Fish tells Cowboy State Daily that this is more common th