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 ...

The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a ...

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More than 30 years ago, a standoff with a white separatist family in Idaho led to federal rules on deadly use of force. Some ...

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 ...

Randy Weaver, whose refusal to leave his remote Idaho cabin led to the 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992, has died, The New York Times reports. He was 74. The cause of his death wasn’t immediately ...

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 ...

KALISPELL, Mont. — 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 cabin ...