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Clackamas Co. Sheriff Craig Roberts said the governor didn’t approach his office before rolling out the plan, intended to address the violence and arson while also protecting free speech. “Increasing law enforcement resources in Portland will not solve the nightly violence and now, murder,” the sheriff said. “The only way to make Portland safe again, is to support a policy that holds offenders accountable for their destruction and violence.” Washington County Sheriff Pat Garrett cited several risks that led to the decision, including "the lack of political support for public safety, the uncertain legal landscape, the current volatility combined with...

It looks like a North Carolina man is holding a priceless piece of New Mexico history. Experts have verified a tintype picture bought for just dollars is that of Billy the Kid and the man who killed him, Sheriff Pat Garrett. It’s a find that could be worth millions. A cool old picture of five men in the Old West went up for sale at a flea market in Ashville, North Carolina in 2011. It caught the attention of history buff Frank Abrams, who decided to spend the $10 to buy it. The picture sat up on a wall as...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Descendants of frontier lawman Pat Garrett personally delivered a message to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson that they're opposed to a posthumous pardon for outlaw Billy the Kid, who was killed by Garrett nearly 130 years ago.

It appears as though VP nominee Sarah Palin is a hit with one Pennsylvania man. Pat Garrett is such a big fan of Palin, he wrote a song about her. Fox's Gerald Kolpan introduces us to the man who's singing about a "Moose Shooting Mama. Video at link Lyrics at: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1513867/Moose-Shootin-Mama-Lyrics-by-Pat-Garrett

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – In a sworn statement, a 72-year-old man says Sheriff Pat Garrett's widow told him 63 years ago that her husband didn't kill Billy the Kid – Garrett's friend – but that Garrett and the Kid shot a drunk in his place. The affidavit of Homer Overton was offered as evidence for exhuming the body of the Kid's mother, Catherine Antrim, to compare her DNA with that of a Texas man who claimed until his death in 1950 that he was William Bonney, known in Western lore as Billy the Kid. A hearing on the exhumation petition is...

Billy the Kid gets a lawyer 122 years after shootout, attorney to gather information for a pardon By Alan Boyle MSNBC Nov. 18 — Amid talk of posthumous DNA tests and a potential pardon, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has given his go-ahead for an attorney to represent the interests of Billy the Kid. The lawyer, Bill Robins, will work for free — but it’s not yet clear how big a role he’ll play in efforts to identify the Old West outlaw’s remains. THE GOVERNOR’S office said Robins’ primary task will be to gather and assess evidence during a renewed...

One of the most notorious outlaws of the old American West may be given a pardon. Henry McCarty, who called himself William Bonney, and who was better known as "Billy the Kid," was shot and killed 122 years ago by Sheriff Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, for the murder of two deputies. Pat Garrett has long enjoyed legendary status for putting an end to the gun-slinging career of one of the old West's wildest. But variations to the story have made the legend one of New Mexico's most hotly debated. This summer, local officials, including the office of...

Billy the Kid's last laughWhereabouts does he lie? Depends on whom, and where, you ask ...06/22/2003By KIMBERLY DURNAN / Dallas Web Staff In Hico, the Texas town whose motto is "Where Everybody is Somebody," folks are bristling at the notion that Brushy Bill is nobody. Earlier this month, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announced a plan to finally learn the truth about what happened to Billy the Kid by exhuming bodies in Texas and New Mexico for DNA comparisons. It is generally accepted history that Sheriff Pat Garrett tracked down Billy the Kid, a.k.a. William H. Bonney, after the 21-year-old...

Songwriter takes shot musically at Saddam By Robin Huiras Reading Eagle As Americans watched U.S. troops help topple a 20-foot-tall statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, local country music artist Pat Garrett was thrilled. Garrett was pleased with the pace of the war in Iraq, but the singer-songwriter also was happy that the people who felled the statue last week stomped on it afterward. It was as if they had read his mind or at least heard his latest release, “The Saddam Stomp.” “We're USA and we're on the way. It's gonna be a romp, you're gonna get stomped,” the...