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 […]
Troopers disclosed on Monday that a Saturday traffic stop in Cantwell netted two fugitives from justice from the state of Arizona. Troopers pulled over a 2014 Nissan Altima for speeding at mile 199 near Cantwell at 5:15 pm on Saturday afternoon, and contacted the driver, identified as 27-year-old Concepcion Vinder Mejia Escoto of Oregon. A […]
A Springfield, Oregon man, Jeremy Daniel Ringquist, 38, is in a Lane County jail today facing two counts of Aggravated Murder after he was arrested following the discovery of the bodies of his parents in the freezer in the home that the family lived in, Springfield Police Chief Rich Charboneau told reporters. Police have not revealed […]