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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, November 26th. I'm Mac Watson. This newscast is "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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DNA has confirmed the remains found in a rural area near Gering, Nebraska, last month are Chance Englebert. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that the family still has questions about how their son died.

"Remains were found in mid-October, and they were found kind of in a remote area on where hikers typically don't go. It's on the north side of the Scottsbluff monument, and typically people hike on the south side…and they believed at the time that they were Chance, because belongings were found with the remains that were identified as Chance….The Scottsbluff County Attorney's office has not officially released the cause of death. That is the next step."

The 25-year-old Englebert disappeared over the July Fourth holiday weekend in 2019 on a visit from Wyoming to Gering, Nebraska, to visit the family of his wife, Baylee's, and their infant son.

Read the full story HERE.

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The Florida trucker arrested by a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper Thursday near Rawlins could face life in prison on an attempted murder charge during a road rage incident. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland breaks down what Rabindranath Bunsee is charged with.

"This is a really interesting investigation, because the alleged victim and the defendant have completely different stories. The the dad driving the pickup truck is like, I was just trying to pass him, and he had driven my wife off the road, and he fired at our truck, and my toddler was inside it, whereas the trucker, the commercial truck driver, the defendant, is saying, no, they drove me off the road, and I took 20 minutes to collect myself. He did say that he hadn't fired the gun, though which the physical evidence would dispute."

Court documents reveal that Bunsee lives in Florida and works as a commercial truck driver. He's in custody in the Carbon County Detention Center on a $100,000 cash-only bond.

Read the full story HERE.

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A woman caught on video earlier this year harassing a baby wombat in Australia is in trouble again, but this time in Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that Samantha Strable faces multiple charges claiming that she lied about her residency to get hunting tags in Wyoming.

"Earlier this year, we published a story about an influencer, at least at the time, was, or at least claimed to be, from Pinedale…The game wardens and prosecutors are claiming that she has been absent from Wyoming long enough to no longer be a resident here, but she applied last year, and this year, she applied for numerous hunting tags as a resident, which is technically illegal hunting."

Strable was booked into the Sublette County Jail on Nov. 21 and released on her own recognizance that same day, according to an order filed in Pinedale Circuit Court. She faces eight misdemeanor charges.

Read the full story HERE.

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