SPOKANE, Wash — Randy Weaver, patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 years ago that left three people dead and helped spark the growth of ...

In August 1992, there was an incident in Ruby Ridge, Boundary County, Idaho that involved an 11-day siege of a cabin occupied by a family called the Weavers. According to Britannica, this family ...

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JEFFERSON - The town where Randy Weaver now lives is as wide and open as Ruby Ridge was steep and hidden. The Union Pacific whistles past the cornfields hourly. It's not unusual to find Weaver in Iowa ...

Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the isolated mountaintop home of Randy and Vicki Weaver and their children on Ruby Ridge in Northern Idaho.

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — When Sara Weaver saw her father Randy struck in the shoulder by a government sniper’s bullet in the Idaho wilderness in August 1992, she began to sprint back to the family’s ...

SPOKANE -- The FBI sniper who killed the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge will not be tried for manslaughter, an Idaho county prosecutor said yesterday. Last week, a sharply divided ...

On this day, Aug. 21, in 1992, U.S. marshals moved in on Randy Weaver’s cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, leading to one of the most controversial law enforcement incidents in recent history. Six marshals, ...

The armed standoff between anti-government militants and law enforcement in Oregon has lasted more than four weeks. After the arrest of 11 people last week, it was expected that the occupation of the ...

A far-right figure with a deep distrust of the federal government and a high degree of moral and religious certainty feels he’s being wrongly persecuted by the state and refuses to participate in ...

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Randy Weaver, known for the ...