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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Friday, September 25th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Cheyenne police said Thursday that they're recommending criminal charges for a dozen teens ages 13-17 involved in a brawl at a Cheyenne Central High School football game earlier this month. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that one witness described the scene as "total chaos."

"They described girls, one girl being restrained by a police officer, while the other girl kept charging that situation repeatedly, a parent got involved. Other bystander spectators formed like a human wall to prevent other teens from rushing into the fray. Meanwhile, two boys are up on a hill in a fight. One had the other in a chokehold, reportedly, and a football player's dad went up there to handle that situation because they were near a precipice at the bottom of which is a concrete pad for a fireplace."

Police announced Thursday that they're recommending charges against 12 teenagers aged 13 through 17, on allegations including battery, assault of a police officer, trespassing, breach of peace, and interference.

Read the full story HERE.

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On Day 3 of a Cheyenne man's trial for allegedly starving his son almost to death last year, Darrick Mittlestadt testified Thursday that the 13-year-old's severe condition was his wife's fault. Cowboy State Daily's Kerry Drake was in the courtroom and witnessed Middlestadt admit that he was deceived by his wife, Angela.

"At one point in the trial, Derek Middlestad said that if he had known about the condition of his child and that he had been near death and starving, that he would have immediately taken him to the get medical help and mental health care help too, but he claimed that he did not know what the condition of his child was because he had been misled and deceived and lied to by his his wife Angela, who has already pleaded guilty to this crime."

Both the prosecution and defense rested their cases Thursday morning, with Laramie County District Judge Peter Froelicher expected to give the jury his instructions, then the 10-man, four-woman panel will hear closing arguments.

Read the full story HERE.

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A city worker caught doing an epically bad curb-painting job in Laramie's downtown district has locals saying they're "embarrassed," and the city apologizing for botching the job. Cowboy State Daily's Greg Johnson reports that one local resident says, "The employee obviously doesn't give a (crap)."

"This is in downtown Laramie, a very historic downtown. The people I talked to pointed out that hate. While it's it's fun to kind of make fun of just how bad it is, we're not happy with the fact that not only was it done wrong in the first place, when they tried to fix it, they tried to fix it by painting over the overspray with gray paint, figuring it would match the cement, and it didn't, and it looked even worse. And the city admitted, 'Hey, that that was terrible too.' And so they went back and they pressure washed the areas where the overspray was to finally get it right. So basically, they had to do it three times. So the taxpayers were paying three times to do that single job, and some of the people in Laramie aren't very happy about it."

The city issued a public acknowledgement of the bad work and an apology Thursday morning.

Read the full story HERE.