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It was one of those moments where you can’t forget what you’ve just learned. The shock when your life suddenly changes and you’re caught completely off guard. A cancer diagnosis isn’t stopping KC from living to the fullest.

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Amid the flowers, gifts and overwhelming amount of support from Gillette, Sondra and Gabe Gaston just want one thing.

They want their son to get better.

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Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Mark Delliquadri II and his girlfriend, Kortnei Byers, were returning home from a late dinner at Wendy’s at about 11 p.m.

What they didn’t realize was that the roads had become icy from rain that had been falling all day and had frozen after nightfall., which led to a plummet off the side of the overpass.

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John Thompson had been selling his green chili at the Lakeway Farmers Market on Tuesday afternoon for about an hour when he asked some passers-by if they wanted to try his green chili.

What happened next left Thompson “astounded” when he was forced to dump his sealed cans of chili by USDA agents that warm afternoon.

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Of all the ways to get to the National High School Finals Rodeo, the Guardipee family had a trip they will remember for a long time.

All packed up and on their way for Caleb to compete in the NHSFR in Gillette this week, their truck caught fire about 40 miles north of Sheridan, Wyoming.

Ali Abu Awwad, of Palestine, and Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, of Israel, have chosen nonviolence as a way to bridge the distance between their two nations.

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Kyra has a skin condition called xeroderma pigmentosum, which keeps her out of the sun because her DNA is unable to repair the light damage. The only way she could see the rodeo was this way. 

Several rodeo queens took time to give Kyra the royal treatment at the National High School Finals Rodeo in Gillette, Wyoming.

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For the first time ever, the Wright volleyball team won the state championship title for the third time in a row, sweeping Sundance under the bright lights of the Casper Events Center.

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Larissa Rathbun was just 3 weeks old when she first sat atop a horse. From that moment on, she and horses have been inseparable.

Yes, this is a proud moment. Now, as she looks at her 11- year-old daughter, she says simply, “She’s all cowgirl.” Her daughter’s love and committment to rodeo competition has only grown.