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Tanto Tusk
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CHICAGO - A former top aide to Rod Blagojevich testified Monday that the former governor planned to hold up a $2 million grant to a school in then-U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel's district until the congressman's Hollywood-agent brother held a fundraiser for him. Former Illinois Deputy Gov. Bradley Tusk said at Blagojevich's corruption trial that he ignored the governor's directive to deliver the message to Emanuel - because, Tusk told the court, he thought the plan was "both illegal and unethical.
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A North Memphis man testified Tuesday he was awakened by intruders two years ago who handcuffed him, robbed him and beat him with a walrus tusk. David Mays, 71, told a Criminal Court jury he knew the man and woman -- Jeremy Sims and Sherry Brookshire -- who are charged with aggravated robbery and especially aggravated kidnapping.
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Washington State Department of Transportation A Washington State Department of Transportation inspector discovered fragments of a tusk believed to belong to a Columbian mammoth while working on the I-5 interchange in Ridgefield.
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ORONO - Linwood White is a curious man by nature. That's why, as White recounted recently, the part-owner of Park's Hardware on Mill Street picked up an odd piece of hard white material he found in October 2008 while digging a hole near the Stillwater River.
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BANGOR, Maine -- Two Canadians and two Americans have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with a plot to smuggle into the U.S. tusks from narwhal whales. Andrew J. Zarauskas, 59, of Union N.J. and Jay Gus Conrad, 66, of Lakeland, Tenn., and the Canadians were indicted last month on charges of conspiracy to import merchandise, conspiracy to launder money, and smuggling goods into the U.S. through the Milltown Port of Entry in Calais.
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Not so fast, New York State Museum. The 9-foot-long Mastodon tusk retrieved from the Hudson Valley a year ago, which you say might be the largest ever found in the state, is not.
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Tembo, one of the two aging elephants at the Topeka Zoo, broke about 10 inches off the tip of her left tusk while playing with a tree trunk about 5 p.m. Thursday in her exhibit. Zoo director Brendan Wiley indicated in a news release that the break didn't cause Tembo any physical pain.
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RIVERSIDE - It took six people on Friday to carry a mammoth tusk into the storage area of the Jurupa Mountains Cultural Center. The elongated 6-foot tusk of the long-dead Columbian mammoth was still encased in a solid block of plaster, altogether weighing 250 pounds.
