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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Conservatives in states including Wyoming, Utah and Ohio vowed to keep pushing for the repeal of state-level death penalty sentences, even as U.S. officials move toward resuming federal executions. The national group Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty released a statement Monday with over 250 signatures saying the death penalty is costly, prone to error and inconsistent with conservatives' opposition to abortion.
RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming authorities have suspended the search for a Wyoming man missing for more than a week. KTWO-AM reports that the Carbon County sheriff's office spent a week searching for 44-year-old Mark Strittmater after he did not return from a solo hunting trip Oct. 19. Authorities say Strittmater went into the Medicine Bow National Forest alone and was reported missing Oct. 20. Authorities say they used air patrol and search dogs in efforts to find him before spending the search at 5 p.m. Saturday.
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials are investigating after a hunter reported shooting a grizzly bear in self-defense in southwestern Montana. The shooting happened Saturday in the south Gravelly Mountains. Four hunters were attacked by grizzly bears in the Gravelly Mountains during a 10-day period in September.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Bureau of Land Management has approved the creation of a new reservoir and the expansion of another on the western flank of the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming. The proposal to build the Alkali Creek Reservoir and expand the Leavitt Reservoir still have other regulatory hurdles to clear, but officials hope to start construction on both projects in 2021 with completion and filling by 2023.
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