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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, August 21st. I'm Mac Watson.

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Despite claims that Eric Barlow won the Republican primary for governor due to closet Democrats, political analysts disagree. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that an analysis of voter registration and turnout percentages predicts Barlow winning even without the margin of likely crossover.

"I talked to former UW political professor Jim King and longtime Wyoming politico Joey Correnti, and they both said, 'No, I don't think Democrats in disguise or crossover voting. They both said I don't think Democrats in disguise won this election for or won this nomination for Senator Barlow to potentially become governor. I tried to run the numbers myself and what I found is that even accounting for the probable sliver of Democrats in disguise crossover voters, the numbers show that Barlow would still have won with 37% or greater."

In deep-red Wyoming, Republican primary ballots have more options and the GOP primary tends to be more decisive, especially in statewide races.

Read the full story HERE.

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A Nevada hunter and social media influencer is vowing to come to Wyoming to kill the leader of Yellowstone National Park's oldest wolf pack, the Mollie's. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports the influencer posted, "The matriarch 1090F is going down on the 15th of September."

"There's some folks in Nevada that were posting that they have the specific intent that they want to come and shoot members of the Molly's pack, particularly the matriarch of that pack, Wolf 1090F. I talked to a couple other Wyoming folks who were just like, you know, hunting shouldn't be about all these arguments and controversy. And one guy pointed out that, you know, most of the people going up there to hunt, they're not going to be able to tell one wolf from another. If they're lucky enough to see a wolf and they have a wolf tag in their pocket. They're going to shoot the wolf to fill their tag."

The season opens on Sept. 15 in Wyoming's Wolf Hunt Area 1, where the Mollie's pack has denned. The wolf quota for hunt areas 1 and 2 is four. That means a total of four wolves can be taken in either of those hunt areas or both hunt areas combined.

Read the full story HERE.

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A 24-year-old South Dakota man doesn't deny shooting and killing another man while in Newcastle on a Tinder date gone wrong, but it wasn't murder, his defense attorney said Wednesday. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports Drake Alexander Ingalls attorney says he was defending the woman he had driven nearly 90 miles to meet.

"I talked to his attorney, his defense attorney representing him, who said he pretty much anticipates a an affirmative defense, which means affirmative defense means yeah he did it, but there are these circumstances that, yeah, he did it, he says he was acting in defense of the woman he was with. He's still being held on a $250,000 bond."

Ingalls said he shot the other man in defense of his Tinder date after the woman screamed for "help" several times, according to an affidavit of probable cause written by Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Agent Zack Miller.

Read the full story HERE.

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A 78-year-old Wyoming man has pleaded not guilty to felony aggravated sex t