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A year after her first war protest in President Bush's adopted hometown attracted thousands and reinvigorated the nation's peace movement, Cindy Sheehan resumed her vigil Sunday. Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush's ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver's license and said she wanted to meet with the president.

A federal judge in Waco ruled Monday that McLennan County ordinances restricting parking and camping along roads to President Bush’s ranch are constitutional and do not infringe on Cindy Sheehan’s right to protest the war. Chief U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith’s ruling was issued late Monday, despite his orders last week for both sides to try to break their impasse over enforcement of county ordinances. Fort Worth attorney David Broiles, who represents Sheehan’s group, said he and Mike Dixon, who represents the county, had worked out a proposal that Dixon planned to bring to the McLennan County commissioners court...

Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was undergoing a minor gynecological procedure Friday evening in a hospital where she was also being treated for dehydration and exhaustion, friends and relatives said. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to release additional information. Sheehan was taken to the Waco hospital after friends picked her up Friday afternoon at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where she arrived after spending several days in Seattle at the Veterans for Peace Convention, said Tiffany Burns, Sheehan's friend. Sheehan, who has been on a liquid diet as...

WACO, Texas — Cindy Sheehan said Saturday that despite her overnight hospitalization after a minor gynecological procedure and treatment for dehydration, the war protest activities will continue on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed stable condition Saturday at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. Sheehan said she could be released later in the day but would still need to rest. She said she probably would not attend an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will...

War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in President Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up. "You can have a dialogue, but you'll never agree," said Valerie Duty, a staunch Bush supporter who wore a "This is Bush country, by George!" T-shirt. "Both sides do agree about bringing the troops home safely. The difference is the way we go about that." Locals have been angry since a man bought five acres last month on behalf of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who said no one in the area would have...

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan spent the night in a hospital for a gynecological procedure and treatment of dehydration but said Saturday that wouldn't stop her protest against the Iraq war on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. She said she could be released later in the day but probably would miss an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will still go on," Sheehan, 49, told...

CRAWFORD, Texas — War protesters who return in August to President Bush's adopted hometown will have a new and bigger gathering place: a 5-acre lot bought with insurance money Cindy Sheehan received after her son was killed in Iraq. Gerry Fonseca, a fellow war protester who acted as Sheehan's agent, said he recently bought the lot about a mile from downtown Crawford — and about seven miles from Bush's ranch — for $52,500. About half the land is pasture, the other half woods, he said. If Cindy Sheehan came to town, I don't think anybody would have sold her any...

While Cindy Sheehan’s purchase of five acres in Crawford might make her anti-war protests go more smoothly next month, it won’t affect a lawsuit that she and others have filed to contest McLennan County’s new parking and camping ordinances. Attorneys for Sheehan and McLennan County will square off Thursday in Waco’s federal court, with both sides seeking temporary injunctions from U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. Sheehan and her followers want to block the county from enforcing its ordinances against parking, camping and erecting portable toilets along roads leading to President Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch. County commissioners are seeking...

CRAWFORD — Cindy Sheehan is back in town. After flying in from Jordan on Saturday night, Sheehan led a day of anti-war protests that culminated in an afternoon march in heat exceeding 100 degrees from the site of Camp Casey I to a checkpoint outside President Bush’s ranch. The president visited Sunday with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. About 40 protesters joined Sheehan, many toting signs that read “The War is A Lie” and “Bush Betrayed Our Troops,” while Sheehan carried a sign asking “For What Noble Cause?” The march followed a short protest at the Crawford Peace House, where...

Cindy Sheehan, the mother whose loss of a son in the war in Iraq led her to become the most recognizable face of opposition to the war, confirmed Wednesday she will come to Salt Lake City this month to join protests during the visit of President Bush. Sheehan's presence likely will increase the visibility and intensity of protests planned to coincide with Bush's address to the American Legion. Bush plans to arrive in Utah on Aug. 30 and speak the following day to the group's national convention. Salt Lake City "is a great opportunity for her to be where Bush...

CRAWFORD, Texas - War protesters extended the olive branch to their new neighbors in President Bush's adopted hometown by hosting a barbecue Saturday - and a few even showed up. "You can have a dialogue, but you'll never agree," said Bush supporter Valerie Duty. "Both sides do agree about bringing the troops home safely. The difference is the way we go about that." Locals have been angry since a man bought five acres last month on behalf of peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who said no one in the area would have sold her any property. Demonstrator Jim Goodnow said he...

Friday's article "Sheehan offers refuge to war deserters" contains a couple of inaccuracies. While war protester Cindy Sheehan may claim she is fasting, her self-acknowledged fasting diet of high-calorie Jamba Juice smoothies and vanilla ice cream is an insult to those such as Bobby Sands, who fasted to death, who take such things seriously.The other inaccuracy is in regard to the article's claim that Rep. Jim McDermott served in Vietnam. He did not. Rep. McDermott spent his brief years in the Navy in Long Beach, Calif., an ocean away from hostilities, as a psychiatrist. Honorable service, no doubt, but he...

CRAWFORD, Texas - Anti-war demonstrators said Sunday they hope the end of President Bush's ranch vacation doesn't hurt attendance at their protest during the rest of the summer. They urged opponents of the war in Iraq to come to the five-acre campsite purchased last month by Cindy Sheehan, who resumed her protest a week ago. Sheehan's first trek to Crawford one year ago during Bush's monthlong vacation turned into a 26-day vigil that drew more than 10,000 people and spurred counter-protests by Bush supporters. A few hundred war opponents returned at Thanksgiving, when Bush was at his ranch, and again...

Peace mom Cindy Sheehan spent the night in a hospital for a gynecological procedure and treatment of dehydration but said Saturday that wouldn't stop her protest against the Iraq war on land she bought near President Bush's Crawford ranch. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco, about 20 miles east of Crawford. She said she could be released later in the day but probably would miss an afternoon barbecue at Camp Casey, the protesters' campsite named for her soldier son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. "Everything will still go on," Sheehan, 49, told...

With or without President Bush, Camp Casey may be here for the remaining dog days of summer. Although the president took his shortest summer vacation yet and spent just 10 days at his Prairie Chapel Ranch this year before heading out of town with the White House press corps in tow, protesters plan to stake out new turf just off State Highway 317. “Regardless if Bush is here or not, we’ll be here,” said protester Dave Jensen, of Tyler. “I think all of us feel like he’s cut and run.” Whether peace activist Cindy Sheehan will stay for the entire...

Country music legend Willie Nelson made a hefty donation to anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan's Crawford protest site. Nelson donated a 5,000 watt bio-diesel fueled generator, valued at nearly $10,000. The protest site has been without electricity and running water since the five acre plot of land was bought late last month because of problems getting permits and permission from neighbors for those utilities. Protestor Dave Jensen said, "Cindy called Willie Nelson and asked where we could get a bio-diesel fueled generator and Willie said he's got one on the way for us." The two week protest at the Crawford site...

Attention Freepers!! The Syracuse Post Standard announced yesterday that the Women’s Studies Dept. at Syracuse University has invited anti-American, anti-war activist and traitor to America Cindy Sheehan to speak at Hendrick’s Chapel on the SU campus on Thursday, October 19th from 7-9pm. All patriotic Central New Yorkers are encouraged to show their support for our country and our troops by showing up and giving Cindy Sheehan the greeting a traitor deserves. Prizes to be awarded for best Cindy Sheehan look-alike Pinata and best sign denouncing this vile traitor. Some of what Cindy Sheehan has to say about our country while...

Sheehan treated at Waco hospital 10:26 PM CDT on Friday, August 11, 2006 Associated Press WACO – Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said. Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to say what Sheehan was being treated for and declined to release additional information. Sheehan was taken to the Waco hospital after friends picked her up Friday afternoon at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport,...

It was at the Veterans for Peace national convention in Dallas last year that Cindy Sheehan says she was galvanized to seek a meeting with President Bush at his Crawford, Texas, ranch. The result was a 26-day sit-down protest near Bush's ranch that attracted common folk and luminaries from across the nation, rejuvenating the anti-war movement.    On Thursday, Sheehan, who became a peace activist after her soldier son, Casey, was killed in Iraq in 2004, was at the Veterans for Peace national convention at the University of Washington. Now almost 40 days into her fast supporting war resisters and...

(August 11, 2006)—Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was being treated Friday evening in the emergency room of Providence Health Center in Waco. Sheehan, who has been on a liquids-only diet for 37 days as part of a fast in protest of the war, was described as being gaunt and pale as she arrived at the hospital. An assistant said Sheehan, who flew to Central Texas after a trip with other activists to Jordan to meet with members of Iraq’s new parliament, was being treated for exhaustion. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey died in Iraq in 2004 while serving with Fort Hood’s...