A new technique might help locate looters who stole from Utah's collection of dinosaur bones.

By DAN ACKERMAN The past few weeks, like most outdoor enthusiasts, I have been soaking up the summer sun by trying to be outside as often as possible before the dreaded tundra temperatures return.

Conservation groups want about 62,000 acres in North Dakota's Badlands to be off limits to oil and gas development. Their proposal also seeks to protect a 5,410-acre area of the Sheyenne National Grasslands in eastern North Dakota. Congress would have to approve the federal wilderness designation.

Billings County wants to build a bridge or low water crossing over the Little Missouri River somewhere in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch Site, which is located 35 miles north of Medora. There isn't a single bridge between Medora and the Long X Bridge on U.S. 85 near Watford City.

By Geoff Gehman, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Jul. 27--The biggest role of Elissa Piszel's theater career is one of the smallest. The Bethlehem native stands silent for four to five minutes in nothing but a slip and a cowboy hat.