A Saturday evening traffic stop for speeding turned into a drug bust for Fairbanks-based troopers according to a Monday trooper dispatch. Troopers pulled over a northbound vehicle on the Parks Highway at 6:11 pm on Monday evening and contacted the driver, who was found to be on Federal probation and a search of the vehicle was […]
WASHINGTON—Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders face off in two more Democratic state presidential nominating contests Tuesday, in coal-producing Kentucky and Pacific coastal Oregon. Pre-election surveys have been scant in both states, leaving analysts guessing whether Clinton can reverse recent setbacks against Sanders and move ever closer to clinching […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested the leaders of a group that occupied a wildlife refuge in the northwestern U.S. state of Oregon for nearly a month. Leader Ammon Bundy and several others left the refuge Tuesday and were reportedly driving to speak at a community meeting when authorities stopped their car. An FBI […]
An armed militia group has seized control of a federal government facility in a remote area of the northwestern U.S. state of Oregon. The group broke into the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Saturday after staging a march in the nearby town of Burns to protest the imminent imprisonment of two local ranchers […]