(KELO) – It may sound like something out of a John Wayne movie, but the Wild West is alive and well in South Dakota when it comes to cattle rustling. Stealing cattle was once punishable by hanging in ...

The grass crunches underfoot and dust billows in dense clouds as a truck and trailer speed out of public lands in Montrose County. The trailer is full of calves lowing plaintively. The driver gives ...

WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) -- Ranchers used to be able to thwart cattle rustling with a fast horse and a sturdy rope. Modern technology has made DNA the new weapon. Woodward County rancher John Stine ...

BUHL, Idaho — Two guys and a four-door sedan. That’s all it took for cattle rustlers to relieve dairy owner Pete Wiersma of three valuable calves. Once the province of outlaws and the bane of ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Armed cattle rustlers suspected to be from West Pokot County struck a village in Trans Nzoia and stole several head of ...

Short Horns graze near Needle Rock in Delta County. Ranchers on the Western Slope have seen a dramatic increase in cattle rustling in the last few months. The grass crunches underfoot and dust billows ...