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WASHINGTON (AP) - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE'S SEEN THE LATEST VERSION OF THE $1.5 TRILLION TAX OVERHAUL PACKAGE MOVING THROUGH CONGRESS AND HE PREDICTS IT WILL DO "VERY, VERY WELL." THE PRESIDENT TOLD REPORTERS FRIDAY THE REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE IN POSITION TO PASS THE PACKAGE AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK. HE SAYS IT WILL BE "MONUMENTAL."
WASHINGTON (AP) - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS TELLING REPORTERS "WE'RE GOING TO REBUILD THE FBI." TRUMP WAS SPEAKING BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR A SPEECH AT THE FBI TRAINING ACADEMY IN QUANTICO, VA. HE SAID "IT'S A SHAME WHAT'S HAPPENED" WITH THE AGENCY'S INVESTIGATION INTO HILLARY CLINTON EMAILS, CALLING IT "REALLY DISGRACEFUL."

WASHINGTON (AP) - PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ISN'T SAYING WHETHER HE IS CONSIDERING A PARDON FOR FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER MICHAEL FLYNN, WHO HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO LYING TO THE FBI. TRUMP TOLD REPORTERS FRIDAY, "I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT PARDONS FOR MICHAEL FLYNN YET." TRUMP SPOKE AS HE LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A SPEECH AT THE FBI TRAINING ACADEMY IN QUANTICO, VA. FLYNN IS COOPERATING WITH SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER'S PROBE INTO POTENTIAL COLLUSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE 2016 TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
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A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH DOWN TEMPERATURES AND CAUSE SNOW FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING THIS WEEKEND, AS WELL AS CREATING TRAFFIC DIFFICULTIES.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS WINDS WILL RANGE FROM 15 TO 30 MPH IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN WYOMING, AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL BE UNDER HIGH WIND WARNINGS ALONG INTERSTATE 80.
GENERALLY, THE STORM WILL MOVE IN FROM THE WEST, FIRST HITTING PARK, TETON, LINCOLN AND UINTA COUNTIES, WITH THE SNOW ARRIVING THIS EVENING, BECOMING WIDESPREAD SATURDAY AND CONTINUING THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.

SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM FOUR TO TWELVE INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND TWO TO SIX INCHES IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS.

TRAVEL MAY BECOME DIFFICULT ON SALT RIVER PASS, TETON AND TOGWOTEE PASSES, AND ON THE CHIEF JOSEPH HIGHWAY AND THROUGH THE WIND RIVER CANYON.

AS IT MOVES EAST TO BIG HORN, WASHAKIE, SUBLETTE, SWEETWATER AND FREMONT COUNTIES, AND THE GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE, THE SNOW WILL ARRIVE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT.

ACCUMULATIONS WILL RANGE FROM FOUR TO TEN INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS AND ONE TO SIX INCHES IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS.

EXPECT SLICK, ICY AND SNOW-PACKED PAVEMENT WITH LOW VISIBILITY ON INTERSTATE 80, POWDER RIVER PASS, AND U.S. HIGHWAY 287.

IN JOHNSON COUNTY AND NATRONA COUNTIES, SNOW WILL FALL THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT WITH ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 10 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS AND TWO TO SIX INCHES IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS.

EXPECT SLICK, ICY AND SNOW-PACKED PAVEMENT WITH LOW VISIBILITY ON INTERSTATES 25 AND 90, U.S. HIGHWAY 26, AND WYOMING HIGHWAY 220.
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CHEYENNE, WYO. (AP) - WYOMING SECRETARY OF STATE ED MURRAY IS DENYING A WOMAN'S CLAIM THAT HE SEXUALLY ATTACKED HER OVER 35 YEARS AGO.

TATIANA MAXWELL OF BOULDER, COLORADO, SAID IN A FACEBOOK POST MONDAY THAT SHE WORKED WITH MURRAY AND HE INVITED HER TO THEIR CHEYENNE LAW OFFICE AFTER HOURS.

MAXWELL ALLEGES MURRAY, THEN A RECENT LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE, WRESTLED HER TO THE GROUND AND SEXUALLY ATTACKED HER.

MAXWELL SAYS SHE TOLD FRIENDS WHAT HAPPENED BUT OTHERWISE KEPT QUIET OUT OF CONCERN SHE MIGHT BE FIRED.

MURRAY DENIES THE ALLEGATION FIRST REPORTED BY KGAB, A CHEYENNE RADIO STATION. HE SAYS IN A STATEMENT THAT THERE IS "NO BASIS TO THIS FALSEHOOD WHATSOEVER."

MURRAY HAS BEEN CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR IN 2018.
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MONTANA WILDLIFE OFFICIALS ARE ASKING THEIR WYOMING COUNTERPARTS TO STOP FEEDING ELK AFTER CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE HAS APPEARED IN THE STATE.
THE MONTANA FISH AN D WILDLIFE COMMISSION SENT A LETTER LAST WEEK TO THE WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSION, SAYING THEIR ELK FEEDING PRACTICES COULD ACCELERATE THE SPREAD OF THE FATAL, CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.

THE MONTANA LETTER SAYS OFFICIALS RESPECT HOW WYOMING HANDLES ITS AFFAIRS, BUT MANAGEMENT OF THE DISEASE IN MONTANA IS AFFECTED BY WHAT HAPPENS IN THE NEIGHBORING STATE.

WYOMING GAME AND FISH COMMISSIONER MIKE SCHMID SAYS HE HAD NOT SEEN THE LETTER AS OF WEDNESDAY. HE SAYS IT REQUIRES MORE DISCUSSION BEFORE A DECISION IS MADE.

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