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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, May 11th. I'm Mac Watson.

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The proposed 5,600-worker man camp south of Cheyenne would be larger than 84 Wyoming towns. Cowboy State Daily's Kate Meadows reports that notices were mailed to more than 200 landowners describing it as a "secured, temporary workforce housing campus" supporting "large-scale infrastructure projects."

"If you talk to people with Laramie County who are thinking about this, they're planning for it. They're seeing that all these workers are coming, and we need a place to put them. And in the words of one person I talked to, 'we need housing yesterday.' You talk to the city and Mayor Collins told me it's maybe not that urgent, but the people certainly are coming. They're trying to move forward with this proposed plan. Now the the camp where this place would be is in County area, not city limits, but the right now, they're trying to figure out how, you know, how can the county and the city work together so that maybe this property could be on city water and sewer but still not be annexed, necessarily?"

Notices were mailed March 25 to more than 200 landowners within a mile of the proposed man camp site. Some residents have reacted with alarm to the size and potential impacts of such a large man camp, including increased crime.

Read the full story HERE.

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New leads could help crack the 25-year-old murder of a Casper man who was beaten, run over and left to die in a Wyoming roller-skating rink parking lot. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that the man's sister says "Danny's death destroyed our family and somebody knows something."

"Danny Moser was 27 when he was savagely beaten outside of a roller skating rink in Mills, right outside of Casper. Authorities say somebody has come forward with new information that they find promising. Danny's family has been devastated by his murder and the lack of answers, and you can't understate the generational trauma this family has suffered as a result of not having answers. And the family's optimistic that finally, this might be the break this case needed."

Ryan Cox, commander at the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation who also oversees the agency's cold case team tells Cowboy State Daily that despite the years that have passed since he was killed, Danny's case is an open and active investigation.

Read the full story HERE.

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Wyoming U.S. Attorney Darin Smith is set for a U.S. Senate confirmation vote Monday as a controversy heats up over allegations he prejudiced a grand jury. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that eight defendants are now challenging to dismiss their cases, including one for first-degree murder.

"They're saying that Darin Smith, the top federal prosecutor for Wyoming, was calling defendants murderers, talking about the cases being slam dunks, saying they did what they're accused of. The prosecutor's office, on Friday, fired back, saying, 'Okay, some of this was ill advised. Some of this commentary was ill advised. But it's not so severe that it prejudiced these grand jury proceedings and sacrificed these cases.'"

President Donald Trump nominated Smith, whose official confirmation vote is set for Monday in the U.S. Senate.

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