Feb 17 2016
BURNS, Ore. The four holdouts in the armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon surrendered on Thursday, with the last protester repeatedly threatening suicide in a dramatic final phone call with mediators before he gave up, ending the 41-day standoff. | Video
Feb 13 2016
BURNS, Ore. Police and federal agents searched a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon for explosives and evidence on Friday, a day after the last holdouts in a protest over federal control of Western land surrendered to end a six-week armed standoff.
Feb 12 2016
BURNS, Ore., Feb 12 Law enforcement officials
were preparing on Friday to sweep a wildlife refuge in Oregon
for explosives and evidence a day after the last holdouts in a
protest over federal control of Western land surrendered, ending
a six-week armed standoff.
Feb 01 2016
Burns, Oregon Tension flared in the deeply divided town of Burns, Oregon, on Monday as 500 demonstrators on both sides of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge squared off, brandishing signs and yelling at each other days after one of the occupiers was shot dead by state police.
Feb 01 2016
Burns, Oregon, Feb 1 The deeply divided town of
Burns, Oregon, braced Monday for possible tension between
demonstrators on both sides of an armed occupation of a federal
wildlife refuge, days after one of the occupiers was shot dead
by state police.