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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, December 9th. I'm Mac Watson.

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The two men the Wyoming Highway Patrol arrested last week for kidnapping a teenage girl are wanted by ICE. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports the men are still being held in the Carbon County Detention Center.

"I got court documents for 33-year-old Pedro Perez and 22-year-old Alexa Solis Gomez. And these documents allege that this girl told her sister she was being followed and that there was a photograph of someone pointing a gun at the home where she was staying shortly before this alleged kidnapping. I also learned last week from talking with ICE that they've issued detainers on the two men, which means that the agency believes they're here illegally and would like to process them."

The Wyoming Highway Patrol arrested the two men who were traveling with a 16-year-old girl, on claims the two men were kidnapping her from her home in Wisconsin back on November 29th.

Read the full story HERE.

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Areas in the Snowy Range in Albany County received over 75 inches of snow in 40 hours over the weekend. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports the wet, heavy snow has boosted the snowpack in Wyoming's southern mountains by more than 30 percent.

"The snow storm over the last weekend was great for the mountains, particularly in southern Wyoming, there were monitoring stations that detected up to 75 inches of snow on the western side of the snowy range, which is phenomenal. And there was a foot-and-a half or so that fell in Centennial over that period. So that makes up for some of the deficit that we had in November. It was warmer and drier than normal in November, and this snowfall helps make up for some of that deficit, not all of it, but some."

A monitoring station above Centennial in the Snowy Range recorded 65.5 inches of snow in 40 hours. Another monitoring station on the west side of the Snowy Range recorded over 75 inches over the same period.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming lawmakers on Monday criticized the Wyoming Department of Health's proposed emergency insurance program named "Bear Care." Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that some legislators are pushing back on government health care.

"The Wyoming Department of Health is like, 'Hey, we can start this with federal seed money and get a buy-in, self-sustaining program to offer an alternative on the marketplace so people can get this emergency care insurance without having to buy a Cadillac on the Obamacare exchange,' basically, is what they're saying. And they're claiming that after the five-year expiration of Big, Beautiful Bill funds, that this program would be able to live on. But state lawmakers, including John Bear after whom Bear Care is not named, were apprehensive on Monday, saying, this is just more government.

If approved, the proposed program would give individuals and small business groups a government-backed option to provide insurance for catastrophes and emergencies.

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Two of Wyoming's most influential historical organizations say they have finalized their split with the Wyoming Historical Society. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that The Wyoming Historical Foundation and WyoHistory.org say they will move forward together without the society.

"This has been a big drama. It kind of emerged in February that these guys were trading accusations. Big to do. There was a no confidence letter issued in M