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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, December 26th. I'm Mac Watson.

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A month-long search for a missing 11-month-old Ten Sleep boy ended in tragedy Tuesday in New Mexico. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that authorities say the baby's non-custodial mother, who had disappeared with the child, shot and killed him as authorities attempted to negotiate a handoff.

"Madeline Daley, the mother of Basil, absconded with him following a court hearing where the father was given temporary custody. She had been on the run for five weeks, and a tipster actually located her in Silver City, New Mexico and alerted authorities. As authorities closed in on her, they were negotiating, and during the course of the negotiations, Madeline shot and killed the 11-month old."

According to the Grant County Sheriff, the 35-year-old Daly, is being held at the Grant County Detention Center in Silver City, New Mexico, on a charge of first-degree murder.

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Unseasonably warm weather has kept some of Wyoming's grizzlies out late. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that normally, bears are hibernating this time of year, but always be bear-aware.

"I did talk to some people that, yeah, we're still seeing a few bears out. There's tracks around. It's mostly the kind of bears that would be out at odd times anyway. In other words, mostly juvenile males and then big, large mature males. And it's important to bear in mind, and we've written about this before at Cowboy State Daily, that it's perfectly feasible for bears to come out at any time. And again, it's usually those big males. They might get a little bit restless in the winter, and they don't tend not to stay out for very long, but they will sometimes venture out in the middle of the winter just to go, maybe check things out, grab a snack or whatever, then go back to bed."

Spring-like temperatures have kept some grizzlies out roaming well past their usual hibernation time, even if most bears have gone to bed after gorging themselves.

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An investment broker identifying himself as Jeff Brown, who claims he is the founder and CEO of New York-based Brownstone Research, is flooding Facebook with ads insinuating that Big Tech is coming to Kemmerer and that the small Wyoming town is ground zero for minting the nation's next millionaires. Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean reports that a Wyoming finance watchdog says don't bet on it.

"He's standing in front of TerraPower's plant, and sort of, he never says Terra Power in the whole presentation, but he's standing in front of Terra powers plan, and he's kind of suggesting that there's some way to get in on the ground floor of terror power. Well, TerraPower is not a publicly traded company. It is a privately held company, and all of the investment to date has been really large investors, people who can drop $650 million in one sitting, for example, those kinds of private investments are typically not open to general everyday investors like you and me. You got to be somebody who can write a check for $650 million. There just is no way right now to invest in TerraPower."

Brad Enzi, a longtime energy industry watcher in Wyoming, tells Cowboy State Daily his advice on any pitches of this type is to be very cautious.

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