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saur bones at the Natural Museum of Utah in 2007. The bones, collected in 2002 from public lands within the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument in southern Utah, date back to the late Cretaceous period, which is toward the end of the age of dinosaurs.
• Evidence shows bite marks on bone joints and proof of a crocodyliform tooth embedded in a dinosaur femur.
• The dinosaur species has yet to be named.
• Boyd worked with Stephanie Drumheller, of the University of Iowa and the University of Tennessee, and Terry Gates, of North Carolina State University and the Natural History Museum of Utah.
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Alcohol protest planned in Whiteclay, Neb.
• WHITECLAY, Neb. (AP) -- Activists who want to end beer sales in Whiteclay, Neb., planned a protest Friday after what they described as a showdown with law officers Thursday.
• Whiteclay is on the South Dakota border. Critics blame alcohol stores there for problems across the border on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcohol is banned.
• The group Alcohol Justice says an observance Thursday of the anniversary of the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement activists turned into a showdown with Nebraska troopers. The activists say the troopers withdrew when more than 100 people marched into Whiteclay.
• The Nebraska State Patrol said there were no arrests.
• Oglala Sioux President Bryan Brewer said hundreds of people planned to return to Whiteclay Friday.
• The Sheridan County Sheriff's Office didn't immediately return telephone calls.
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Survey: More slow economic growth ahead in Midwest
• OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A monthly economic survey index for nine Midwest and Plains states dipped last month, suggesting only slow growth for the region over the next three to six months.
• The Mid-America Business Conditions index hit 53.1 in February, compared with 53.2 in January and 49.5 in December, according to a report released Friday.
• Creighton University economist Ernie Goss, who oversees the survey, said the region will remain on a sluggish course.
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