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<title>🚧 Man Found Dead In Montana River Wrongly Reported As Hiker Missing In Wyoming | Cowboy State Daily</title>

Officials are trying to squash wrong reports that a body found in the Bighorn River in Montana was a Minnesota man who went missing July 29 in Big Horn County, Wyoming. It isn’t, but the reports have rubbed at already raw emotions.

Man Found Dead In Montana River Wrongly Reported As Hiker Missing In Wyoming

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<title>🚧 Wyoming History: The 1983 Rampage That Killed A Gillette Cop And Family Of 4 | Cowboy State Daily</title>

On a cold December day in 1983, a Wyoming power plant worker’s jealous anger boiled over into a violent and deadly rampage. He used automatic weapons and pipe bombs, killing a family of four, then a Gillette cop in an ambush before killing himself.

Wyoming History: The 1983 Rampage That Killed A Gillette Cop And Family Of 4

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Daily Crossword Puzzle: Friday, October 3, 2025

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<title>🚧 Wyoming's Famous ‘Big Al’ Dinosaur Getting Another Autopsy | Cowboy State Daily</title>

A team in Montana is studying Wyoming’s famous Allosaurus, “Big Al.” Although it’s been extensively studied, they hope more intense research will reveal more about the dinosaur's dramatic story in Shell, Wyoming, 150 million years ago.

Wyoming's Famous ‘Big Al’ Dinosaur Getting Another Autopsy

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<p>News that President Biden negotiated a deal that released a Russian arms dealer called the &#x201C;Merchant of Death&#x201D; from a U.S. prison in exchange for an American basketball player imprisoned in Russia doesn&#x2019;t set well with U. S. Sen. John Barrasso.</p>
<p>Barrasso, Wyoming&#x2019;s senior senator, appeared on FOX News on Thursday morning and condemned the trade that allowed WNBA star Brittney Griner to come home in exchange for Viktor Bout, who was serving a 25-year sentence for arms trafficking and who many have called a terrorist.</p>
<p>&#x201C;I think it&#x2019;s wrong,&#x201D; Barrasso said. &#x201C;President Joe Biden should have held out for a different result.&#x201D;</p>
<p>One of those results, Barrasso said, would have been to wait until U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who has been imprisoned in Russia for four years, was on the trading block as well.</p>
<p>&#x201C;This is a Russian play right out of their playbook,&#x201D; he said. &#x201C;Use American prisoners and then swap them for something of incredible value to them.&#x201D;</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
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</div></figure><p>Barrasso said he was glad to see Griner coming home, but it was &#x201C;absolutely wrong&#x201D; to leave Whelan there.</p>
<p>Barrasso wasn&#x2019;t alone in his criticism of the exchange. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said the swap was not a trade but &#x201C;an American surrender.&#x201D;</p>
<p>&#x201C;This is not what American strength looks like. Terrorists and rogue states are smiling,&#x201D; Bolton said.</p>
<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy called the exchange a &#x201C;gift&#x201D; to Vladimir Putin. </p>
<p>&#x201C;It endangers American lives,&#x201D; McCarthy said. &#x201C;Leaving Paul Whelan behind for this is unconscionable.&#x201D;</p><h2>Pleased</h2><p>Meanwhile, others were pleased with the prisoner swap.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Congress and the U.S. were &#x201C;overjoyed&#x201D; at the news.</p>
<p>&#x201C;Thanks to the committed & focused leadership of President Biden, Brittney Griner is finally free. Today, our hearts are with her dear wife, Cherelle, and the Griner family as their beloved Brittney is safely on her way back to America.&#x201D;</p>
<p>Actor Rob Reiner called it a &#x201C;wonderful rhyme.&#x201D;</p>
<p>&#x201C;Brittney Griner is released from prison and protection for marriage equality is passed in Congress. Brittney is now free to return home and free to be with the woman she loves,&#x201D; Reiner said.</p>

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<title>🚧 Biden Swaps Russian Arms Dealer For WNBA Player; U.S. Marine Still Imprisoned | Cowboy State Daily</title>

President Biden was roundly criticized by many for a prisoner exchange that freed a WNBA player for a Russian arms dealer nicknamed the "Merchant Of Death" while a U.S. Marine still languishes in a Russian prison.

Biden Swaps Russian Arms Dealer For WNBA Player; U.S. Marine Still Imprisoned

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