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Harney County is a rural county in eastern Oregon. The county seat is the city of Burns. [36] [37] Though it is one of the largest counties by area in the United States, [36] [37] its population is only about 7,700, [36] and cattle outnumber people 14-to-1. [36]
This story was updated at 8:40 p.m. A former Washington police officer suspected of killing his ex-wife and a teenage girl and kidnapping a 1-year-old child before fleeing to Oregon is dead after ...
Bundy made similar statements two days later when he appeared on Glenn Beck's radio show [91] and the Fox News program Hannity. [92] He reiterated the demands on Sean Hannity 's program: "The demand on the sheriff was de-arm the Park Service rangers, and de-arm Red Rock rangers — that's two parks very close to the Lake Mead area.
From January 2 to February 11, 2016, the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (MNWR) in eastern Oregon were seized and occupied by an armed group, later called Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, affiliated with private U.S. militias and the sovereign citizen movement following an earlier peaceful march in protest of the prison sentences for ranchers Dwight Hammond and his son ...
When armed protesters took over a remote wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon four years ago to oppose federal control of public lands, U.S. agents negotiated with the conservative occupiers for ...
An Ontario woman could spend up to 25 years in prison after she shot at several Nampa police officers during a March standoff. Third District Judge Brent Whiting sentenced 34-year-old Tessa Grove ...
Cliven D. Bundy (born April 29, 1946) is an American cattle rancher known for his role in the 2014 Bundy standoff. [2] Bundy has advocated a philosophy opposed to what he views as federal government overreach.
On January 15, the Oregon State Police made the first arrest of a militant since the occupation began. 62-year-old Kenneth Medenbach, of Crescent, Oregon, was apprehended at the Safeway in Burns while driving a government vehicle stolen from the refuge headquarters; a second vehicle stolen from the refuge was also recovered at the scene. Both ...