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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, December 18th. I'm Mac Watson.

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At least part of the Dec.1st complaint in which Platte County residents asked Gov. Mark Gordon to remove their commissioners from office is false, documents show. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that public officials are saying other parts are hotly disputed.

"We actually obtained their campaign finance reports with file stamps on them. For example, there was a claim in there that Commissioner Steve Shockley was only nominally a fireman, and two high ranking fire officials were like, no, he's responding to fires all the time. And then there was one that developed into a gray area where they were saying these two commissioners. So two out of the three met with this energy developer, supposedly for a safety talk on how to deal with runaway fires and battery systems. And two makes a quorum. So under state law, there's public meeting laws apply.…So while some of the complaints are just we can soundly debunk some, multiple people are saying, 'Yeah, that's not true.'"

The Platte County complaint marks the fourth concentrated attempt to remove county officials from office via a governor's investigation in the past year.

Read the full story HERE.

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Rock Springs police and family of a missing Rock Springs woman are requesting the public's help in locating her. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that 20-year-old Searra Gentry, who family says struggles with mental health, was last seen Tuesday getting into a pickup truck with an unknown male.

"She went over to the Greyhound bus, and a woman purchased a ticket for her. And again, she has no money. She has no cell phone. So her aunt, Jessica Richter, who I spoke to, does not know what Sierra told the woman, but whatever she did encouraged her to buy her a bus ticket to Salt Lake City…but she did not get on that bus. Instead, she left with the gentleman in his pickup truck."

The pickup has been described as a late 1990's-early 2000's primer gray GMC or Chevy pickup truck. Anyone with information is asked to call the Rock Springs Police department.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wildlife photographers say the reign of Hoback, the most famous moose in the Grand Tetons, could be coming to an end. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that the moose is estimated to be around 18 years old, and has already shed one of his antlers.

"The people that saw it happen see it happened on the 10th of December, which is somewhat early for a moose to shed their antlers. Usually they don't start until late December, January. And it probably could be because he's getting old and his testosterone levels are dropping, and so that might prompt him to shed his antlers earlier, which kind of segues into this whole, you know, larger topic of whole backs getting old. I mean, it happens with these iconic animals that we, you know, maybe kind of place on a pedestal in Wyoming, as we did with Grizzly 399."

It's been a rough year for Grand Teton's moose. Several of them have been struck by vehicles, including a famed bull called Elk Antler, who was killed in October.

Read the story HERE.

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Cody Rober