Locals give no clues in mastodon tusk disappearance

Sunday, May 9, 2004

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Crime is so rare in the tiny Alaska Native community of Deering that police say the theft of two fossilized mastodon tusks shouldn't be a behemoth case.

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