Armed with rifles and a pack of wild dogs, a family of six children hunkered down in their ramshackle home near Sandpoint, Idaho, for a third day, refusing to accept help from government officials they feared and distrusted.
Bonner County sheriff's deputies blocked off a dirt road in northern Idaho and waited patiently, not wanting to provoke further paranoia from a family that had worked hard to cut itself off from the outside world.
