North Dakota officials: Protesters should leave federal land

CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota lawmakers are encouraging the thousands of Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters to respect the mandate to leave the sprawling, months-old encampment that’s on federal land.
According to Standing Rock Sioux tribal leader Dave Archambault, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sent him a letter Friday that said all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to public access Dec. 5 for “safety concerns,” including the oncomin