In the Dodds family, traditional board games have gone the way of the dinosaur, and been replaced with one of the hottest new trends: Poker. Once the activity of smoky, back-door clubs and casinos, family participation requires some easy-to-use new inventions, including the DB Dealer, which combines the game's dealer button -- an oversized, round chip marker that denotes which player bets last, the most advantageous betting position -- and the blind timer, an alarm that marks a minimum bet increase, called a blind.

A dog's carcass is to blame for a massive sewage back up in Provo, Utah authorities say. Authorities blamed the back-up on the dead dog stuffed down a sewer manhole and then opened a criminal investigation about the incident. They found the dog's owner from an identifying chip implanted in it. The owner says the dog has been missing.

A dog's carcass is to blame for a massive sewage back up in Provo, Utah authorities say. Authorities blamed the back-up on the dead dog stuffed down a sewer manhole and then opened a criminal investigation about the incident. They found the dog's owner from an identifying chip implanted in it. The owner says the dog has been missing.

A dog's carcass is to blame for a massive sewage back up in Provo, Utah authorities say. Authorities blamed the back-up on the dead dog stuffed down a sewer manhole and then opened a criminal investigation about the incident. They found the dog's owner from an identifying chip implanted in it. The owner says the dog has been missing.

The fossil of an ancient woolly mammoth's tusk has been discovered near a dairy farm in Tulare County. According to Roger LaJeunesse, anthropology professor at California State University, the 10-foot-long tusk is estimated to be 100,000 years old.