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RANGE SHOWDOWN
BLM to pursue effort to end dispute with rancher
UNDATED (AP) __ A day after blinking in a showdown on the range, federal land managers pledged to pursue efforts to resolve a conflict with a southern Nevada rancher who has refused to pay grazing fees for 20 years.
Bureau of Land Management spokesman Craig Leff says the agency would continue to try to resolve the matter involving rancher Cliven Bundy. Bundy owes more than $1 million in grazing fees, according to the bureau.
The fight between Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management widened into a debate about states' rights and federal land-use policy. Bundy does not recognize federal authority on land he insists belongs to Nevada.
On Saturday, the bureau released about 400 head of cattle it had seized from Bundy back to him only hours after announcing a premature halt to the roundup due to safety concerns. The operation, expected to take up to a month, ended after only a week.
The cattle were freed after hundreds of states' rights protesters, some of them armed militia members, showed up at corrals outside Mesquite to demand the animals' release.
THEFT CHARGES-GAMBLING PROBLEM
AG: Gambling habit leads to $250K theft
(Information in the following story is from: Nevada Appeal, http://www.nevadaappeal.com)
FALLON, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada Department of Transportation employee in Fallon has been charged with using a state credit card to support his gambling habit.
Tal Pierre Smith is accused of using the credit card to buy about $250,000 worth of items he later pawned or sold to pay for the activity.
The Nevada Appeal reports that a six-count indictment was filed against Smith in New River Township Justice Court in Fallon.
According to the complaint, Smith made repeated illegal purchases over a three-year period ending last December and concealed them by altering receipts and other records.
They were discovered when a chain saw was delivered to the transportation department's Fallon facility while Smith was on a hunting trip. Transportation department officials discovered the invoice had been altered, and an investigation was launched.
PACQUIAO'S REVENGE
Manny Pacquiao back on top after Bradley win
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The old Manny Pacquiao returned for thrilling bursts, hounding Timothy Bradley onto the ropes and battering the welterweight champion with whip-quick combinations that recalled the Pacman's magical prime.
The older Pacquiao couldn't finish the trick, however.
Although he tried mightily, Pacquiao didn't stop or even really hurt Bradley during 12 mostly exciting rounds Saturday night, settling for the lucrative revenge of a unanimous-decision victory.
Pacquiao proved he is still one of the world's most exciting boxers with his second straight win, even if he might never recapture his most destructive form. His hands and footwork are still inimitable, but the eight-division world champion's power and timing weren't good enough to stop Bradley — or any of his opponents since late 2009, the date of his last knockout.
Bradley gave a mixed review of Pacquiao's physical skills in comparison to their first fight.
Pacquiao still beat up one of the world's best boxers with relative ease, and his next bout in the fall will be among the biggest happenings in sports. His mostly likely opponent is a fifth meeting with Juan Manuel Marquez, who fights Mike Alvarado on May 17.
SEVEN DEAD BABIES-ARREST
Utah woman arrested after 7 dead babies found
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman accused of killing seven babies she gave birth to over 10 years was arrested Sunday after police discovered the bodies stuffed in separate cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home.
Investigators say 39-year-old Megan Huntsman, who lived in the Pleasant Grove home until three years ago, had the infants between 1996 and 2006.
Neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood of mostly older homes 35 miles south of Salt Lake City say they were shocked by the accusations and perplexed that the woman's older children still living in the home didn't know their mother was pregnant or notice anything suspicious.
Police Capt. Michael Roberts says officers responded to a call Saturday from Huntsman's estranged husband about a dead infant at the home. Officers then discovered the six other bodies.
Huntsman was booked Sunday into the Utah County Jail on six counts of murder. It wasn't immediately clear why there were six counts and not seven.
A spokesman says police believe the estranged husband and Huntsman were together when the babies were born, but the man isn't a person of interest at this time.
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