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

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The young daughter of a 24-year-old woman was found dead on Saturday, shot in the face in a Riverton motel room. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports court documents say that the little girl told authorities: "Daddy was mad at mommy," and "Mommy's dead."

"What we know from the affidavit by Riverton Police Department detective Peter McCall is that the original caller was reporting that the little girl had found her mother unresponsive in the room. And we also know that there's video showing the little girl entering the room with her family at about 11pm the night before, and the footage shows the father leaving and coming back in the wee hours of the morning, according in court documents, so the evidence at this juncture indicates that the girl was in the room. There may be evidence later to read, but at this juncture, that's the indication. And when a victim witness coordinator was, you know, talking engaging with a little girl, later at the police station, she was saying things like, 'Daddy was mad at mommy, mommy's dead,' according to the affidavit."

According to court affidavits, 25-year-old Sterling Louis Black Jr., turned himself in to police on Saturday afternoon, and now faces one count of second-degree murder.

Read the full story HERE.

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A 14-year-old Cheyenne boy is being charged as an adult with first-degree murder, accused of shooting his mother in the head from behind. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports Havoc Leone initially reported to the Laramie County Sheriff's Office investigators that his mother, Theresa McIntosh, had killed herself.

"The call was called in as an attempted suicide. When authorities got there, they discovered that the situation just didn't add up to suicide. Number one, she was shot in the back of the head by the ear, in a spot where they said, it's not usual that someone would put a gun to themselves. It wasn't obvious from the wound that there was contact with the gun, and it came at a little bit of a distance. And the boy himself said there was a struggle for the gun, and it just went off. But at another time, he told them in pretty good detail how he had the gun in his closet, he retrieved it, and that he shot her in the back of the head."

According to court affidavits, the buildup to the shooting began about 90 minutes before McIntosh was killed when she and her common-law husband — Leone's biological father — argued with the teen about an electronic tablet he stole from the home of a cleaning client of his mother's.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming House leaders on Wednesday dismissed ethics complaints against Democratic Reps. Mike Yin and Karlee Provenza over the "CheckGate" scandal. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that House Speaker Pro Tem Jeremy Haroldson said they didn't break any rules, but their actions did cause fallout.

"Representative Carly Provenza shot a photograph February 9 of Rebecca Bell handing out checks to lawmakers on the House floor after a tournament. And she handed that off to the press, and she has given multiple reasons for this thing. She didn't want the incident to be swept under the rug. Now the allegation has been that she violated the rules by not filing a confidential ethics complaint. Instead, you know, the ethics complaint rule doesn't say you have to file an ethics complaint when you have an issue. It lays out what happens when you do that and how you do