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May 31, 2007 EUGENE — A federal judge today sentenced an Applegate woman to more than four years in prison for her role in a string of arsons around the West that caused more than $40 million in damage over a five-year period. Suzanne Savoie was the fifth of 10 radical environmentalists to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Eugene after they pleaded guilty to arson and conspiracy charges. All were members of an underground cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as “The Family.” The sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken was eight months less than...

POLSON, Mont. -- A U.S. Forest Service official told loggers Wednesday that some out-of-state environmental activists operating in Montana are terrorists trained in arson, vandalism and bomb-making. "Here in Montana, we are starting to see people from out of state and people who have direct ties to the Earth Liberation Front, and that concerns us," said Bill Fox, of the agency's Northern Region office in Missoula. Fox spoke Wednesday to members of the Montana Wood Products Association, gathered in Polson for their annual meeting. Earlier this summer, ELF told officials at the Bitterroot National Forest that all salvage logging in...

Hundreds Evacuated in Seattle Smoke Bombing Thursday July 11, 2002 4:04pm Seattle (AP) - Hundreds of office workers were evacuated after military-style smoke grenades were detonated at two buildings, and police said animal rights activists might be responsible.The smoke bombings Wednesday, set off two minutes apart at the Financial Center and another downtown building, have been tentatively classified as acts of domestic terrorism, Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said. Police said the devices appeared to be aimed at two subsidiaries of Marsh & McLennan Cos., an insurance firm that does business with British-based Huntingdon Life Sciences, which has been targeted...