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Cliven Bundy and his family still graze cattle on Nevada rangeland where armed protesters and federal agents held a standoff.
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To the editor: So, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy can continue to graze his cattle on public land without paying the required grazing fees to the federal government that law-abiding cattle owners now pay.
A federal judge in Las Vegas set rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons free Jan. 8.
Far-right activist was found guilty of one count of misdemeanor trespassing and one count of delaying a law enforcement officer after a two-day trial.
The weight of a heavy sentence landed in the quiet federal courtroom Wednesday morning, leaving Gregory Burleson occasionally stroking his graying beard and his attorney pleading unsuccessfully for leniency.
Police say far-right activist Ammon Bundy has been arrested after allegedly refusing to leave a hospital in connection with a child-welfare case.
It started four years ago, when Cliven Bundy and his sons refused to pay federal grazing fees and stared down government agents in an armed standoff outside their Nevada ranch.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons repeatedly violated court orders to remove their cattle from public land while inciting and escalating an armed standoff with government agents near their Bunkerville ranch more than three years ago, federal prosecutors told a Las Vegas jury Tuesday.
Three years later, Cliven Bundy’s cattle are still grazing on federal land.
The Nevada rancher accused of leading an armed standoff that stopped federal agents from rounding up his cattle in 2014 walked out of a courthouse in Las Vegas a free and defiant man, declaring that his fight against U.S. authority is not over.