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CHEYENNE — Already facing serious federal charges for allegedly carrying 18,000 rounds of ammunition through Wyoming, Ricardo Paez-Quinones, 35, dug himself into an even deeper hole on Friday. Paez-Quinones was a no-show for his bond hearing on Friday morning in U.S. District Court, leading Judge Alan Johnson to put out a bench warrant for his arrest. Johnson suspected that the topic of his bond was what led Paez-Quinones to avoid coming to court, leading him to engage “in some form of self-help.” “We can receive an explanation for that at a later time,” Johnson remarked. Paez-Quinones is an illegal immigrant...

A 25-year-old Gillette man who is already in prison for assaulting jail officers is now accused of attacking prison guards when they wouldn’t let him keep gingerbread-making supplies in his cell. He’s serving a five-to-10-year prison term in the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins. The Carbon County Attorney’s Office charged him with felony police interference Monday, on evidence that he kicked and thrashed at prison guards. If convicted, he could receive an additional prison term of up to 20 years — 10 years on each of the two counts of felony interference he now faces. The incident dates back to...

Wyoming has become the first state in the United States to require proof of citizenship for residents to register to vote. This measure, which will take effect in July 2025, will apply to all elections: local, state, and federal.Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon allowed the voter residency bill to become law without his signature.This afternoon, WY Governor Mark Gordon allowed HB 156 to become law without his signature, establishing requirements for Proof of 1 Residency and U.S. Citizenship in order to vote!This is a major win for Election Integrity in Wyoming! pic.twitter.com/0GhziPJ1l7— American Action Fund (@AmericanActFund) March 21, 2025While Gordon did...

Four Missouri hunters who stepped diagonally from one parcel of federal land in Wyoming to another did not illegally trespass on the airspace of adjacent private property, a federal appeals court has ruled. The decision, issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, firmly protects public access to millions of acres of land in the court’s six-state jurisdiction and substantially strengthens the rights of “corner-crossers” throughout the West. The case is rooted in a quirk of the region, where vast swaths of terrain have been divided since the 19th century...

West Virginia and Wyoming took major steps toward securing their elections by passing prohibitions on the use of ranked-choice voting (RCV). On Tuesday, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey signed into law SB 490, which stipulates that “[n]o state, county, or local elections office may use ranked choice voting or instant runoff voting to conduct an election or nomination of any candidate in this state for any local government, statewide, or federal elective office.” Any “existing or future ordinance” adopted by a local government promoting the use of such a system would be declared void under the measure.Often referred to as...

The electric buses in question were made by a company called Proterra, which went bankrupt two years ago.. A city in Washington is selling nearly half of its electric bus fleet following reliability issues and difficulty getting replacement parts. The Everett City Council voted earlier this week to sell nine of the electric buses, of which only four are in service right now, because of reliability issues, including critical sensors and components that have been failing since they went into service. The city is now looking to purchase retrofitted diesel buses so there are no gaps in service. According to...

On February 27, 2025, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon allowed Wyoming Bill 172, the “Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act”, to become law without his signature. Governor Gordon objected to the bill but said it would become law. The Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act does essentially what the name implies. It repeals most of the areas where the legislature has allowed local political entities to infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment. From a previous AmmoLand article:Section 1 W.S. 6-8-105 is created to read:6-8-105. Exceptions for state issued concealed carry permits; penalty. (a)This section shall be known as and...

Wyoming’s only surgical abortion center will stop killing babies after the governor signed a law that requires proper licensing for abortion businesses. Wellspring Health Access, Wyoming’s only abortion biz with both surgical abortions and the abortion pill, will quit killing babies for now while it files a lawsuit against the law. This decision followed the enactment of a state law mandating that facilities doing surgical abortions be licensed as outpatient surgical centers. Additionally, the law requires abortion businesses to have hospital admitting privileges within a 10-mile radius. Both requirements are necessary for when abortion clinics injure women in botched abortions...

Traffic crashes involving large commercial trucks have been on the rise since 2016, and some in the industry are pointing to a simultaneous rise in non-English-speaking truckers. Wyoming is no stranger to deadly large-truck crashes, and had the most per capita — at 5.1 per 100,000 people — in 2022, according to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). That’s nearly three times the national average of 1.8 fatal truck crashes per 100,000 people. Data from the National Safety Council shows fatal crashes involving large trucks rising consistently starting in 2016, from about 4,500 in the nation that...

Canadian wolves were released into Yellowstone National Park in 1995 and central Idaho in 1996 — but within a few years their territory and numbers had greatly expanded, along with their negative impact on livestock and elk herds.

A ban on ballot drop boxes appears to still be slowly moving forward in the Wyoming Legislature. Although they didn’t take a vote on it on Friday, multiple members of the Senate Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee told Cowboy State Daily they plan to support a ban on ballot drop boxes in Wyoming but plan to make significant changes to House Bill 131 as written. Specifically, two of the swing votes on the committee, state Sen. Brian Boner, R-Douglas, and Sen. Dan Dockstader, R-Afton, both told Cowboy State Daily they plan to support the bill when it’s heard again...

In the Wyoming Legislature, House Bill 172 passed House 50-10 on January 23, 2025. The bill eliminates most gun free zones and strengthens the Wyoming preemption bill for firearms. The bill would allow limited regulation by government entities of government employees’ ability to carry in government buildings and schools.Here are some relevant sections fom the wyoleg.gov:Section 1 W.S. 6-8-105 is created to read:6-8-105. Exceptions for state issued concealed carry permits; penalty. (a)This section shall be known as and may be cited as the “Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act.” (b) Persons lawfully carrying concealed weapons in Wyoming under W.S. 6‑8-104(a)(ii)...

On Thursday, the United States Senate voted to confirm former Rep. GOP representative and former Director of National Intelligence under Trump 1.0 John Ratcliffe (R-TX) as the next Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The final vote tally by voice vote was 74 in favor and 25 against. Mr. Ratcliffe has now been officially confirmed as Director of the CIA. The one Senator who did not vote, for reasons as yet unknown, was John Fetterman (D-PA). As of this writing, the formal roll call tally has not yet been released. On Tuesday, President Trump said about John Ratcliffe:Trump touted Ratcliffe’s...

The Wyoming Supreme Court is considering whether and when it’s appropriate for law enforcement agents to search a criminal defendant’s lawyer. Jason Gay, of Tynsky Law Office, filed a petition last week to the state’s highest court, asking it to decide if it’s unreasonable for sheriff’s deputies to search a lawyer and his office – and potentially his home – when the attorney isn’t suspected of a crime, among other questions. The contested case isn't clear-cut: Gay's client is both a defendant in a criminal case and the victim of alleged crimes. Gay represents Chet Walker, a Robertson, Wyoming, man...

A thin-skinned Liz Cheney could not help herself in firing back at President Trump on Friday over his savage remarks regarding the medal she received from Joe Biden and ended up making a huge error in the process. As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Biden awarded the second-highest civilian medal to 20 individuals on Thursday. These included the leaders of the January 6th select committee, Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), along with two of his longtime friends/cronies, former Senators Ted Kaufman (D-DE) and Chris Dodd (D-CT). The award, known as the Presidential Citizens Medal, is generally given to Americans...

The Deep State is scrambling. As President Trump prepares to take back the White House, their one goal is simple: survival. And part of that “survival plan” is to protect the key players who trampled the law, shredded the Constitution, and turned America into a pseudo-North Korea hellhole—all to destroy Trump and his powerful political movement. One way they’re looking to pull this off is through a series of blanket pardons for the bad guys—people like J6 scam artist Liz Cheney and COVID mastermind Anthony Fauci. Joe Biden kicked off this scheme by pardoning his crooked, crackhead son. And when...

Not only did President-elect Donald Trump handily win the election on Nov. 5, he also won the popular vote with over 77 million votes. Now on top of that, most Americans are also approving of his transition moves. This is despite the efforts of many in the media/many Democrats trying to tank his nominees. Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman · Follow WOW—CNN just released a poll showing that 55% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling the transition. You know they hate giving Trump positive press. It seems once again, just like with the election, Americans are tuning out the...

The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee and its chairman Barry Loudermilk on Tuesday released an interim report on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, concluding the attack was preventable and also asking for an investigation into former Rep. Liz Cheney for criminally tampering with a witness during the Democrat-led congressional inquiry of the tragedy. “Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the report released by the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee...

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Chuck Schumer is trying to ram through Dem activist Lauren McFerran for another term chairing the National Labor Relations Board—a very big deal. If successful, we will have a Dem Chair of the NLRB for the first 2 YEARS of Trump's Presidency. We need every GOP Senator to show up and block her ... enSchumer just FILED CLOTURE on the nominations of Lauren McFerran and Joshua Ditelberg to be members of the National Labor Relations Board ... Senate Republicans must show up and vote NO. We’re watching you ... Chuck Schumer is doing everything he can to sabotage Trump's presidency...