Ammon Bundy, the jailed leader from the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge, has come to the defense of a sheriff who is being investigated by the state.
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There are times it seems Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy has spent as many years on the stump as in the saddle, pouring forth his views on federal lands and the Constitution from the dusty middle of nowhere.
Cliven Bundy refused to enter a plea in federal court Thursday to criminal charges stemming from the 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near his Bunkerville ranch. U.S. Magistrate Judge Bill Hoffman entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf to all of the charges.
Federal prosecutors are pushing to keep Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy behind bars Thursday as he faces arraignment on a string of felony charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with lawmen near Bunkerville.
Dozens of armed occupiers who took over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon have been indicted on additional charges.
The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating two shots fired by federal agents that apparently went unreported following a fatal confrontation in January between authorities and militiamen in Southeast Oregon.
Cliven Bundy’s family is using social media to plan a rally outside the federal courthouse on Thursday before his arraignment on felony charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near Bunkerville.
Federal prosecutors on Monday are expected to seek the continued detention of a New Hampshire man said to be a “midlevel organizer” in a high-profile 2014 armed standoff in Nevada over cattle grazing rights.
CARSON CITY – About a dozen people protesting the death of Oregon wildlife refuge occupier LaVoy Finicum lined Carson Street on Saturday in front of the Capitol grounds to bring attention to what one termed the murder of the Arizona rancher at the hands of overzealous federal authorities.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy appeared in federal court Friday to face federal charges in a connection with the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement in Bunkerville.
The leaders of a six-week armed occupation at a U.S. wildlife refuge in rural Oregon are to be arraigned on Wednesday on charges of conspiring to impede federal officers policing the compound during a fight over federal control of land in the West.
The Bureau of Land Management lost the Battle of Bunkerville to Cliven Bundy and his armed militia even before it began.
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Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and two others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas on Wednesday in connection with the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement in Bunkerville.
The FBI said it has found a trench of human feces and a road excavated on or next to a sensitive cultural site with artifacts at the Oregon wildlife refuge where armed men staged a standoff with authorities, according to court records filed on Tuesday.