Video of the deadly encounter between police and some of the men who’ve occupied an Oregon wildlife preserve since the start of the year seems to contradict claims that occupier Lavoy Finicum was surrendering to officers when they killed him.

Federal authorities arrested Ammon Bundy and several of his followers in a traffic stop Tuesday, a law enforcement official told CNN.

The Helio Sequence

The armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge continue to use government equipment inside the complex. One militant, who refused to give his name, again plowed dirt with a refuge bulldozer Wednesday. He wouldn’t say why he was operating the machinery, but in several places, sagebrush and vegetation had been newly removed, leaving wide patches of bare mud within the complex.

’But officer, this is a sovereign truck!’ By Doktor Zoom.

Gifts of sex toys, glitter and nail polish are not what the armed protesters who seized a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon were expecting when they put out a public call for supplies to help get them through the winter. The occupiers, who took over buildings at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2 in the latest conflict over the U.S. government's control of land in the West, had been hoping for snacks, fuel and warm clothes when they provided sympathizers with a local mailing address.

The occupation of national wildlife area by a small, armed group upset over federal land policies stretched into its second week as the mother of the group's leader asked supporters to send supplies - everything from warm blankets to coffee creamer.

For many people, public land is an untrammeled good. Places like the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge are paradises for hikers and safe havens for endangered species.

On Saturday night, dozens of white, armed American militants stormed a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon seeking to take a "hard stand" against federal government "tyranny." It's a wild story. Here's what you need to know.

What is behind this latest showdown.

Pharmacists in Oregon are now permitted to prescribe birth control pills to qualifying women as part of a wave of new state laws for 2016. Oregon is the first U.S. state to put such a law into effect, with California reportedly looking to follow suit. A doctor's approval is no longer needed for a supply of pills, although experts urge women not to overlook preventative health care in the form of doctor visits.

UPDATE: Militia members protesting a federal prison sentence for two Oregon ranchers convicted on charges of setting fire to federal land have occupied the headquarters of a national park, the OregonLive reports.

At Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, the site of the deepest lake in the country, the surface water temperature has been heating in recent years, attracting an invasive species of crayfish that is putting the lake’s clarity and native creatures in jeopardy. Correspondent Jes Burns of Oregon Public Broadcasting and EarthFix reports.

Peter Rasmussen was always able to identify with his patients, particularly in their final moments. But he saw himself especially in a small, businesslike woman with leukemia who came to him in the spring of 2007, not long before he retired. Alice was in her late fifties and lived in a sparsely furnished farmhouse outside Salem, Oregon, where Rasmussen practiced medical oncology. Like him, she was stubborn and practical and independent.

New Bad Things

Numerous rescues but at least two deaths amid downpours, flooding, mudslides, downed trees, power outages

For Janosh and Victorya, who in Russia lived as a former bag man for a Moscow bank and an FSB agent, the dream of a life as defectors has been plagued by spats with the FBI, and an unexpected life in a city they’d never heard of.

As for gentrification, like in every desirable part of the country, economics decide the contest, and wealth wins every time. By Michael Copperman.

The Mexican restaurant chain has had at least two other food-borne illness outbreaks since August.