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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, April 10th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Weston County Clerk Becky Hadlock resigned on Thursday one day after she was charged with two felonies. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that the chair of the local Republican party, Kari Drost, confirmed the resignation.

"Her attorney declined to comment on the resignation, but said he was looking forward to fighting her criminal cases, one's a felony, one's a misdemeanor. Meanwhile, the civil removal case where the Attorney General was going to try to have her removed from office is no longer valid because she's resigned that office. So that was set to start Monday. That's done but the criminal cases are still ongoing."

The resignation averts a civil trial that had been set for Monday.

Read the full story HERE.

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The parents of a 4-month-old Cheyenne boy who died of severe brain injuries made their first court appearances Thursday. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that the parents are charged with first-degree murder. "There's a lot more about the mother, and that doesn't point to any one particular person's guilt or not, but they talked about some things found on their mother's cell phone. When they got a warrant to look at it, apparently her phone made searches of different terms related to Shaken Baby Syndrome. There also were 58 text messages from the hour right up until they went to the hospital with the boy that was missing the phone."

Joseph Hanson, 24, and Juliette Martinez, 23, were taken into custody without incident Wednesday and booked into the Laramie County Detention center on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse, the Cheyenne Police Department reported. Cheyenne police say the boy died after a month on life support.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Denver energy analyst says the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline isn't entirely dead. It's being resurrected in a new form, with Canadian segments feeding a proposed Bridger pipeline to Guernsey. Cowboy State Daily's David Madison reports that the first Wyoming public meeting is on April 13 in Newcastle.

"It's a huge logistical task, and so it's not a done deal, but they have filed the paperwork to move forward Wyoming company going to link Guernsey with Canadian crude. It comes at a time, according to the sources I spoke to, at a time when the capacity in the Canadian pipelines is nearing a point where it's going to run out of capacity. And so this could answer that. This could solve that problem. Interestingly, it also picks up where the old, infamous Keystone XL Pipeline left off."

Matthew Lewis, founder of the Denver-based independent research firm Plainview Energy Analytics tells Cowboy State Daily that a piece of pipeline could be stitched into a new 36-inch crude oil line that would help get more Canadian oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast — but first passing through Wyoming.

Read the full story HERE

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Yellowstone's Blacktail Pond is a death trap for bison when they fall through ice or get stuck in mud there. Outdoors Reporter Daily's Mark Heinz reports that wildlife photographer Pete Bengeyfield thought for sure that one unfortunate bison was doomed but was thrilled to see her escape.

"If it's a cold spring, they might walk on the f