Clair McFarland
Clair McFarland is a general assignment reporter for Cowboy State Daily and is based in Riverton, Wyoming. She specializes in crime and court reporting and social issues coverage. Clair also writes a twice-monthly column on motherhood and country living.
Previously, Clair wrote for The Ranger, the Lander Journal and the Wind River News. She is an award-winning journalist, columnist and poet, who joined Cowboy State Daily on Valentine's Day, 2022.
Latest from Clair McFarland
Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Conviction Of Men Caught With 320 Pounds Of Pot
The Wyoming Supreme Court has rejected a claim made by a pair of men caught with 320 pounds of marijuana on I-80 that a state trooper stopped them because their car was too big and they were Hispanic.
Clair McFarlandJuly 19, 2023
Former Wyo Supreme Court Justice, Top Fed Prosecutor Appalled At Hunter Biden âSweetheart Dealâ
Former Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Bill Hill and former U.S. Attorney Richard Stacy told Cowboy State Daily they are shocked at Hunter Bidenâs âsweetheart dealâ for three federal criminal charges.
Clair McFarlandJuly 18, 2023
Suspect Believed Connected To Sweetwater County Murder In Custody, SUV Sought
The Sweetwater County Sheriffâs Office has apprehended a suspect in the murder of a 30-year-old Teton County man and is asking for the publicâs help in locating an SUV believed to be related to the crime.
Clair McFarlandJuly 18, 2023
California Cell Tower Company Asks Judge To Block Wapiti Residents From Joining Lawsuit
A California cellphone tower company on Friday asked a federal judge not to let several Wapiti, Wyoming, residents join the company's lawsuit against Park County to keep a nearly 200-foot tower out of the pristine Wapiti Valley.
Clair McFarlandJuly 17, 2023
Riverton Teen Who Died After She Was Ejected From Stolen BMW Had Meth, Alcohol In System
The Fremont County Coronerâs office reports that Sassite Underwood, the 17-year-old who was killed when the BMW she was in crashed last month, had meth and alcohol in her system.
Clair McFarlandJuly 17, 2023
Reservation School: 95% Of Third Graders Not Proficient In Literary Skills
More than 95% of third grade students at an Arapahoe, Wyoming, elementary school were not proficient in reading, writing and related skills for their grade, according to the 2022 Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress report.
Clair McFarlandJuly 17, 2023
Biden Gets Weekend Win: Judge Puts Hold On Anti-Censoring Social Media Order
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday afternoon placed a temporary hold on a Louisiana federal judge's July 4 order, which for 10 days had barred numerous federal agencies from pressuring social media companies to censor Americans' protected speech.
Clair McFarlandJuly 14, 2023
Pregnant Woman Survives Alleged Beating, Ditches Boyfriend At Wyoming Taco Bell Bathroom
A month after he allegedly beat and bit his pregnant girlfriend on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Steven Cole CâBearing has been arrested. His girlfriend was able to get away from him and call police when he used a bathroom at Taco Bell.
Clair McFarlandJuly 14, 2023
Teen Arrested In Casper Fairgrounds Shooting, Bullet Storm On House
The Natrona County Sheriff's Office and Casper Police Department issued a joint statement Friday saying they arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the Tuesday shooting of a woman near the fairgrounds and a Thursday 10-bullet attack on a residence.
Clair McFarlandJuly 14, 2023
Clair McFarland: Sleeping Outdoors Under Shooting Stars And Elon's Satellites
Clair McFarland writes, "The boys and I sleep outside every summer when the first crop of hot, windless days leaves nothing to cool the brain except its dark nights."
Clair McFarlandJuly 14, 2023
Wyoming Woman Will Do Prison Time for Her Role In Stabbing, Beating, Burning Tire Death
A Fremont County woman will do prison time for her role in the death of a woman who was stabbed and beaten to death, then had a burning tire put on top of her in a bathtub.
Clair McFarlandJuly 13, 2023
UW Transgender Sorority Member Denies Erection Allegation, Says Claim Was Drunken Gossip
Artemis Langford, the first transgender member of the University of Wyoming chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, says claims of an erection while watching a woman change was drunken gossip.
Clair McFarlandJuly 13, 2023
Hageman Grills FBI Director On Social Media Censorship, 'Weaponizing' Law Enforcement
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday about explosive evidence a federal judge summarized last week about the FBIâs efforts to censor and suppress election-related speech.
Clair McFarlandJuly 12, 2023
Montana Man Accused Of Torturing Lander Woman Will Face Trial In August
A Montana man accused of kidnapping and torturing a Lander woman for six weeks is scheduled for trial next month. The man faces a federal kidnapping charge punishable by up to life in prison or the death penalty.
Clair McFarlandJuly 12, 2023
Montana Quits American Library Association Over Marxist President, Wyoming Noncommittal
After the Montana State Library became the first state to cut ties with the American Library Association after its president called herself a Marxist. Wyoming's library leader was noncommittal on the topic.
Clair McFarlandJuly 12, 2023
Natrona County Deputies Seek Information In Fairgrounds Shooting
A victim was taken to Banner Health Wyoming Medical Center in Casper with non-life-threatening injuries after an apparent shooting near the Natrona County fairgrounds Tuesday evening.
Clair McFarlandJuly 12, 2023
Pavillion Man Accused Of Shooting Son While Wrestling Over Gun With Wife
After giving his wife a loaded .40-caliber handgun and telling her to shoot him, a Pavillion man tried to wrench it away from her when his wife wouldnât, according to court records. The gun went off, hitting their 12-year-old son in the arm.
Clair McFarlandJuly 11, 2023
In Rare Move, Wyoming Reservation Casino Granted Liquor License
The Fremont County Commission on Tuesday approved the Northern Arapaho Tribe's request for a liquor license for the Wind River Hotel and Casino, based on several promises that the casino would contain the alcohol and treat any resultant alcoholism.Â
Clair McFarlandJuly 11, 2023
Judge Denies Biden Request To Keep Censoring Social Media Posts
After a federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration from censoring protected speech on social media, the president asked for permission to do it anyway. The judge denied Biden's request Monday.
Clair McFarlandJuly 11, 2023
21 Coal Cars Derail Near Lusk Monday Morning
More than 20 rail cars carrying Powder River Basin coal leaving the Wyoming mines outside of Bill, Wyoming, derailed early Monday near Lusk, spilling coal, but nobody was hurt. The cause is under investigation.
Clair McFarlandJuly 10, 2023
Casper Woman Strikes Plea Agreement In Gender Clinic Arson
A 22-year-old woman accused of setting fire to a gender-treatment and abortion clinic in Casper last June now has struck a plea agreement in her case.
Clair McFarlandJuly 10, 2023