Children remain defiant in Idaho gun siege

Armed with rifles and a pack of wild dogs, a family of six children stayed in their ramshackle Idaho home for a third day, refusing to accept help from government officials they fear and distrust.

Sheriff’s deputies blocked off a dirt road near Sandpoint in northern Idaho and waited patiently yesterday, not wanting to provoke further paranoia from a family that had worked hard to cut itself off from the outside world. It was not clear whether the children were talking with them.