Cowboy State Daily Newscast: Wednesday, June 26, 2024

It’s time to take a look at what’s happening around Wyoming, for Wednesday, June 26th. I’m Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom

Goodmorning, and welcome to the Wednesday, June 26th edition of CowboyStateDaily Radio. I’m Wendy Corr, bringing you the latest headlines from around the state.

--Just three weeks after part of the highway on Teton Pass fell off the mountain, Wyoming transportation officials announced it will reopen on Friday. The detour will have significantly slower speed limits but no weight limitations, according to CowboyStateDaily’s Jake Nichols, but at least this highway that is considered the lifeline between Jackson and Idaho will be open for locals and travelers once again.

“That section that they're rebuilding the bypass on, it's going to have a reduced speed limit to 20 miles an hour. It's only a very short section, it's going to slow down the traffic significantly, but it's going to be a lot better than the option currently for the last two weeks, which has been the drive around. So it'll be a regular two-lane highway, they, you know, it's a fix that it's going to work for now.”

WYDOT Director Darin J. Westby credited department engineer Bob Hammond, along with full cooperation from both private and public agencies, with the quick turnaround. Read the full story HERE.

--Closure may soon be a little closer for the families of two people shot and killed in a double murder during a 2015 robbery at a Cheyenne business. On Tuesday afternoon, the Cheyenne Police Department announced it arrested 68-year-old California resident Douglas Smith in connection with the murders at The Coin Shop in downtown Cheyenne. CowboyStateDaily’s Leo Wolfson reports that Smith was actually the person who dialed 911 after the shooting.

“I spoke to Mike Moser, who was friends with one of the victims, the owner of the coin shop. And he said that it really hit Cheyenne hard when this happened, because of the nature of the murder. It happened in the middle of the day in a very busy part of town. And Moser said he believes the city lost some of its innocence that day.”

Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak said it will be his department that's responsible for bringing Smith back to Wyoming. Kozak was chief of the Cheyenne PD at the time of the murder, and he said there was no other case he lost more sleep over. Read the full story HERE.

--Despite outrage over a wolf being run down with a snowmobile in the infamous Daniel wolf torture incident, banning that practice in Wyoming doesn’t seem imminent. Some members of a legislative working group on Tuesday argued it should remain legal, according to outdoors reporter Mark Heinz.

“It's kind of decided that really, the focus should be on trying to craft some sort of legislation that penalizes or discourages allowing an animal prolonged suffering, regardless of the method that is used to try to kill it for whatever reason - whether it's attacking livestock, or you know, whatever is going on. So it's a complicated issue, not a pleasant subject at all.”

A representative for the Wyoming Stock Growers Association pointed out that in some cases, running predators over with snowmobiles could be more humane than shooting them. Read the full story HERE.

--Gov. Mark Gordon dug in his heels at a town hall meeting in the coal capital of the United States on Tuesday, telling a rather subdued crowd of blue-collar miners, educators and public officials that he is not rolling over on a federal push to limit energy mining in the Cowboy State. Energy reporter Pat Maio attended the town hall in Gillette, where Gordon vowed a legal fight to halt an aggressive federal overreach positioning against Wyoming.

“Governor Gordon disclosed - based on a question in conversation I had with him afterward - that a major law firm has been hired to help out in the battle against the federal government. It's a high-powered one, too, they're paying close to a million bucks to bring them on board.”

Gordon said that at last count, Wyoming is participating in 58 legal actions designed to push back on overreach by the federal government, which aims to curtail or end the state’s right to mine and produce energy. Read the full story HERE.

--And a man who chased down another on a Park County road Sunday ended up getting shot in the leg. CowboyStateDaily’s Andrew Rossi reports that few details were made available about the alleged early morning vehicle chase that ended badly for a man, who apparently had enough of a problem with another driver to chase him until he stopped.

“有人沿着道路行驶，他们被一辆车跟踪，而那辆车里的人是司机认识的人 - 他们对该人有有效的保护令。打电话过来的人说，他们发生了扭打，另一辆车的司机拿着棒球棒接近他，抓住了他的衣领

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