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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, January 12th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Utahns who are banned from buying alcohol due to "extreme" DUIs won't find sympathetic liquor dealers in Wyoming. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that one dealer in Evanston says "If Utah says you can't buy alcohol because you're too bad of a drunk driver, then we're not going to sell to you either."

"Utah has the strictest drunk driving laws in the nation. Anyway, their legal threshold is point oh 5% or just about everybody else's point oh eight and this new law that went into effect January that says that if you're convicted of what's considered an Extreme DUI, you can't buy alcohol in Utah, and they put it on your driver's license or your official ID, it's in red bar right over your head that says no alcohol sale…So, basically, what it got me to wondering is if, as as they're handing out these extreme DUIs to people in Utah, they can't buy alcohol, there are we going to see something like we see with Colorado coming up to Cheyenne to get fireworks. It's very illegal in Colorado, so they come up to Cheyenne, just over the border, and buy their fireworks."

Now liquor store and bar owners in Evanston who spoke to Cowboy State Daily said there's no obligation to follow Utah's laws, but the extra alcohol sales aren't worth having it weigh on their consciences.

Read the full story HERE.

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Sublette County ranch hand Rachel Misiewicz was heartbroken when a Texas tourist ran over a working border collie during a cattle drive last fall. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that Rachel is pushing for a law that would mandate drivers slow to 25 mph near livestock drives.

"On this tragic day last fall, a 11-month Border Collie cur cattle dog named Flo ran across the highway to get some cows and push them back to the herd so they can stay on the shoulder. Well, a couple from Texas allegedly was driving in a Ford Bronco going too fast. My sources say the woman was in the passenger seat, videoing it, and a man was driving, and they hit poor flow. Both the front tire and the back flow died pretty much immediately…Law enforcement showed up, but the driver was not cited."

The petition, posted on Change.org, calls for legislation that would require motorists to slow to 25 mph when encountering cattle, horses, riders, or active livestock drives on public roadways and would establish a $3,000 fine for failure to comply.

Read the full story HERE.

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Right before Christmas, Navy veteran Al Ellis donated his 207-acre llama ranch in Sublette County as a sanctuary for veterans and first responders. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports that Ellis wanted to do this for the people who deserve it.

"Al Ellis donated his 207-acre llama farm to the Boulder Crest Foundation because the Boulder Crest Foundation serves veterans and first responders. They provide training and programs for veterans and first responders who have been through trauma. And Mr. Ellis said he has a high regard for those people and wants to basically give them a gift to just be as generous as he possibly can, because they deserve it…When his wife died in August, he decided he wanted to donate his land, his property, including his beautiful, two story log home, he looked he did some research for organizations, foundations, nonprofits, that would accept