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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, February 2nd. I'm Mac Watson.

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Jake Stoner is planning a funeral for his 11-month-old son on his ranch after the boy was allegedly murdered by his mother two days before Christmas. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that Stoner is also asking Wyoming legislators to loosen strict Amber Alert criteria for faster child rescues.

"Jake Stoner's attorney Christopher King started a GoFundMe to help Jake Stoner raise money for these efforts to change the Amber Alert guidelines. And Brayden Harvey, who is a member of the Hot Springs Republican Party, saw that fundraiser, and he was very touched by Jake's story, so he put forth a resolution called the Basil Stoner Resolution to reconsider the threshold for what's required for law enforcement to actually issue an Amber Alert. And it was passed on January 29th by the Hot Springs Republican Party. And since then, he has sent that resolution to other Republican parties throughout the state, as well as the governor, law enforcement, and other entities."

Stoner's 11-month-old son, Basil, was allegedly killed by his mother, Madeline Daly, two days before Christmas in New Mexico.

Read the full story HERE.

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When Goshen County rancher Gary Hubert first saw the condition of 14 starving horses, he went to the sheriff. Cowboy State Daily's Dale Killingbeck reports that Hubert then supplied 25 1,2000-pound bales of hay himself before others stepped up.

"An 83-year-old rancher in Goshen County just drove by the pasture where these horses were being kept, and just saw the condition of them. And so he just saw one particular horse that was in really bad condition, and so he went to the sheriff, was told that they couldn't do anything, that's what he told me. And then he said he just started providing feed for these horses, he took hay down there, and that started this whole ball rolling for all those bales of hay, out of his own pocket, he supplied the food to bring these 14 horses back…He told me that he contacted the owner's family in South Dakota, and had a conversation with them, and had a conversation with the owner of the property, and understood that the owner was not showing up at the property for a long time, and so he just stepped in to try and do what he could to save these horses."

Nathan Wallman, the owner of the 14 horses, is headed to trial in March on separate animal abuse charges involving 17 other horses that he kept at a rented Torrington location.

Read the full story HERE.

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The town of Wamsutter may be the future of energy with a pilot hydrogen production facility. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that this potential energy is where oil and gas waste streams could be transformed into hydrogen fuel.

"Produced water comes up with the oil and gas around Wamsutter, and it's a place where they're thinking of applying this technology, and they believe they can take that, that produced water, that has some kinds of that has hydrocarbons in it, and pull hydrogen off of that, and then perhaps hook it into a pipeline system that takes it to the Pacific Northwest, where it is a desired fuel. It could fuel cars. It could fuel your gas stove. Anyway, it's interesting to see this pilot program. They're still looking for funding. The research scientist I spoke to is really excited ab