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of Payson, Utah, didn't place among the top six with an 82.5 on Rage.
• Defending world champion Feild has earned $191,650 in 2012 while Will Lowe of Canyon, Texas, who placed sixth with an 83 on Dirty Jacket in round five, remained in second with $163,142.
• Feild was also atop the NFR aggregate standings with 423.5 points over five rounds, followed by Lowe with 418 points.
• In saddle bronc riding, Cole Elshere of Faith, S.D., took first with an 83 on Lunatic Fringe and moved into second place in the NFR aggregate standings with 391.5 points over five rounds.
• Jesse Wright of Milford, Utah, who didn't place among the top six, was first in the world standings at $180,360 while Wade Sundell of Boxholm, Iowa, who also didn't place in the top six, remained in second with $147,115.
• Cody DeMoss of Heflin, La., who placed second with a 78 on Lock & Load, leads in the NFR aggregate standings race with 394.5 points over five rounds.
• DeMoss and Elshere are the lone competitors with five successful rides, and they were joined by Jacobs Crawley of College Station, Texas, as the three successful riders in the fifth round.
• Wright tops the NFR earnings race with $47,263.
• In barrel racing, Kaley Bass of Kissimmee, Fla., won in a time of 13.68 while Trula Churchill of Valentine, Neb., was a close second in 13.69. Three-time world champion Sherry Cervi of Marana, Ariz., placed third in 13.76.
• World standings leader Brittany Pozzi of Victoria, Texas, who was fifth in 14.01, stayed in first with $191,280
• Mary Walker of Ennis, Texas, who finished fourth in 13.89, remained in second in the world standings with $189,720. Defending world champion Lindsay Sears of Nanton, Alberta, who didn't place among the top six in 14.21, is third in the standings with $167,387.
• Walker leads all 2012 NFR competitors by earning $62,428 during the first five rounds.

Search for radioactive decay continues in SD lab

• LEAD, S.D. (AP) -- Physicists in South Dakota have started assembling "detector units" in the search for a rare form of radioactive decay that could help explain how the universe evolved.
• The Majorana Demonstrator Experiment is under construction in the Davis Campus of a shuttered gold mine in Lead (LEED) in the Black Hills. It's next door to an

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