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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, August 17th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Political groups spending millions of dollars on Wyoming's primary election are attacking U.S. House and gubernatorial candidates with fliers and commercials. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that some of their claims are exaggerated and some are downright false.

"The most startling of the political ads that we've seen this cycle is a flyer against Senator Eric Barlow, who's running for governor, which claims that he sponsored legislation to drive up fuel taxes. The instances it cites from 2020 and 2013, Barlow was actually fighting to keep fuel taxes low in both those instances. So if you follow the citations, they actually show him fighting to keep fuel taxes low, which makes those outright falsehoods. We see lesser degrees of, I guess, skewed information."

Attack ads, even if their assertions are exaggerated or flatly untrue, is big business. PACs are spending hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars to do it.

Read the full story HERE.

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Nearly 23 years after Clifford "Russ" Haux vanished in the Red Desert near Wamsutter, his daughters are still haunted. Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher reports the 42-year-old husband and father of three had gone out with a co-worker to free a stuck vehicle and never returned.

"Clifford 'Russ' Haux was out in the oil field, and his suburban got stuck, and he came back to free his suburban with his rigmate. Then he was trying to cross with his pickup truck to get to the other side, and he was unable to do so. So he took off and drove along the draw, and that was the last time anybody saw him again. Two years later his vehicle was found. His purple Ford Ranger pickup was found six miles directly down the draw where he was trying to cross. So that was the first time anybody found any trace of him. And inside of his vehicle, they found a suitcase with a couple of shirts. That's it. There's been no sign of him whatsoever in the 23 years since."

The Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office can't speculate about what might have happened to Haux after he left the vehicle. But there's no evidence to date to suggest Haux was a victim, said Jason Mower, public information officer with the department.

Read the full story HERE.

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Two Sheridan golfers won the lottery on New Year's Eve when they were selected to play at the toughest place to book a tee time in the U.S. Cowboy State Daily's Jeff Welsch reports that all 11,000 tee times were booked in one hour and they played last week.

"What makes it exceptional is the size, the scale, the scope. Gigantic fairways, the size of football fields. You've got bunkers that'll swallow a golfer whole. They're huge, but the greens, more than anything else, some of the largest greens in the world are on this 18-hole course, which at 600 acres is four times larger than the average American course, and and and one of these greens is one of the largest in the world. So right away you've got something extraordinarily unique, and then on top of it they just charge $175 for a round."

Sheridan's Josh Gardner and Jared Stiver have played courses of all shapes and sizes, in all types of environments, foreign and domestic, but they say nothing could prepare them for Landmand.

Read the full story HERE.

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