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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Tuesday, May 26th. I'm Mac Watson.

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On Memorial Day, Bill Parr remembers the men he served with during a 22-year career in the Navy who never came home, but he won't talk about them. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that he spoke with Parr at the Cheyenne National Cemetery.

"Parr told me basically what veterans usually tell me, that it's a day for remembering those who died, those who paid that ultimate sacrifice for America's freedom, and that he doesn't want to talk about himself. And when I asked him if there's anyone in particular that he was at the National Cemetery to remember, he just kind of got quiet and tears kind of came to his eyes and he just said yeah but I'm not going to talk about them and so that's a pretty common pretty common response."

Parr tells Cowboy State Daily he enlisted in 1969 at age 18 and was quickly sent to Vietnam. He served two tours on river boats providing supply interdiction coming down the Mekong River.

Read the full story HERE.

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It's grizzly mating season in Yellowstone, and a pair of popular bears were too caught up in courtship to notice gawking crowds. But Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that the sweet scene isn't common behavior for bears.

"People got a lot of really adorable pictures of them cuddling together, and I did talk to a wildlife biologist, who said don't mistake any of this for like human concepts of romance. Grizzlies don't fall in love, they don't pair bond over any great length of time. In fact, it's not unusual for female grizzly to mate with multiple males over the course of a mating season, because their eggs don't start to gestate right away, they have delayed, usually the gestation doesn't start until they actually go into their hibernation den to time it, so the babies are born around January."

The amorous grizzly scene near Yellowstone Lake caused a bear jam for at least a quarter mile in each direction this past week.

Read the full story HERE.

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Meteorologist Don Day says reports of a Super El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean are ludicrous. Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi reports an El Niño is coming and will likely be beneficial for Wyoming.

"Why Cowboys State Daily meteorologist Don Dey is skeptical, because a lot of people are trying to anticipate what the impacts of this El Nino will be six months from now, and that's based on long-range weather modeling and we have seven months now of examples of how bad long range weather modeling can be when it comes to predicting these trends. El Nino historically has meant wetter weather for Wyoming in the late fall, going into winter, and then the next spring, and if there's a super El Nino, there's reason to believe that there would be more of that, just more precipitation."

A Super El Niño is a stronger-than-normal El Niño, meaning the surface waters of the Pacific are warming along the equator.

Read the full story HERE.

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Kelley Marshall was on track for a violent death when eagle-eyed cops recognized she was being trafficked. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports that one trafficking expert says that "People think