An Arizona tattoo artist pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in the Oregon’s ranching standoff case. Brian Cavalier, a bodyguard for standoff leader Ammon Bundy and his father Cliven Bundy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and possessing a gun in a federal facility. Cavalier admitted in federal court in Portland that he conspired with others to impede Interior Department employees from doing their jobs at the refuge near Burns.
Last votes were coming in Tuesday in a recall election for a judge in the sparsely populated Oregon countywhere armed militants took over a federal wildlife refuge earlier this year.
Congressman Cresent Hardy says the U.S. Constitution doesn’t allow the federal government to own lands except in narrow circumstances. But he’s entirely wrong about that.
An inactive explosive was placed against the door and William Keebler was handed a remote detonation device and pushed it several times, according to the FBI.
Two years after withdrawing from the Gold Butte area amid a 2014 standoff with the Bundy family, the federal government is moving back into the expansive stretch of desert 110 miles east of Las Vegas.
Federal prosecutors oppose separate trials for Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his four sons and 10 other defendants charged in the 2014 armed Bunkerville standoff.
Three candidates vying for a chance to unseat Republican incumbent Cresent Hardy jabbed at each other and debated hot topics such as health care and making college affordable one last time before Tuesday’s primary.
Nevadans love their open space and public lands, favor renewable energy and are less likely to vote for a candidate who supported Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy in his 2014 standoff with federal authorities.
The former director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management “stood to benefit personally” in 2012 when he tried to fast-track the sale of federal land in Henderson to a stadium developer, according to a government investigation report released Tuesday.
