Cowboy State Daily Video News: Thursday, October 15, 2026

It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Thursday, October 15th.  I'm Mac Watson.

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A University of Wyoming graduate student is accused of poisoning her colleague, then trying to flee to China through the Los Angeles International Airport. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports 32-year-old Aili Wang was arrested, and is expected to be held in Albany County on a $15 million cash bond.

"Court documents say that they found poison in her office mate's coffee maker, that the people at the university actually tested samples from the coffee maker, and that he was having bad symptoms: numbness, tingling, lots of illness from about August onward. So they set up surveillance cameras. Multiple people did, and they also checked her card entry data according to the affidavit. And so there would be entries after midnight, video footage allegedly showing her messing around with the coffee mug or the coffee itself, and so there was also commentary in the affidavit that she was studying the same things that the alleged victim was studying before she came to the United States."

An affidavit by University of Wyoming Police Department says a researcher with pending patents started experiencing strange symptoms in August. The man, identified as "KT," reported symptoms of poisoning starting Aug. 10th.

Read the full story HERE.

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After surviving 34 days in Yellowstone National Park and losing 10 pounds, a 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier was safely trapped Wednesday and reunited with her family. Cowboy State Daily's Emma Jane Jackson reports that searchers say they had only a few days before having to suspend the search for the winter.

"Katie Boucher from Norris Ark Rescue told me that the feeling of reuniting a family with their lost pet is a feeling that never gets old, and it's pure joy. I asked Katie Boucher how hard this rescue was, and she said that Luna was a feral street dog for the first year of her life, so she has the skills to survive on her own, and she wasn't necessarily running to humans for help, which made it long and hard."

Luna escaped Sept. 10 while vacationing with her family in the Canyon Village area of Yellowstone. The fa