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Authorities say man skipped jury duty to drink

Tue Oct 7, 8:48 PM ET

JACKSON, Mo. - Curtis Lemons was supposed to report for jury duty in a drunk driving case. Instead, according to authorities, the 50-year-old Cape Girardeau man skipped the jury duty so he could drink himself.

  • Police: Angry airline passenger flings foot powder Tue Oct 7, 8:48 PM ET

    BOSTON - Boston police said a passenger who was angry because his flight was delayed tried to get back at the airline by throwing foot powder around the plane. Arthur Nicolson, of Framingham, was arrested Monday after the U.S. Airways flight from Las Vegas landed at Logan International Airport.

  • Duo claim record by watching 57 films in 123 hours Tue Oct 7, 8:48 PM ET

    NEW YORK - You may want to try this at home. Suresh Joachim, of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra, of Petersburg, Germany, claim to have broken the Guinness World Record for movie-watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square.

  • Second lottery win makes Kansas man flush Tue Oct 7, 8:48 PM ET

    GREAT BEND, Kan. - A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year. Kory McFarren cashed in his winning $2 Bonus Crossword ticket in Great Bend Monday.

  • In this photo released Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008, by the Chicago office of the FBI, is an individual described by agents as a white male, 40 to 45 years old and with a 'heavy build,' who robbed the Charter One Bank in suburban Alsip, Ill., on Sept. 11, 2008. On his cap is the distinctive bunny logo that prompted FBI agents to dub the latest quarry in their war on bank robbers 'The Playboy Bandit.' (AP Photo/FBI)
    FBI: Chicago Playboy Bandit stole cash, not hearts Tue Oct 7, 8:48 PM ET

    CHICAGO - The beefy looking gunman doesn't look like the trim, ascot-wearing Hugh Hefner. But the FBI dubbed him "The Playboy Bandit" after he robbed a suburban Chicago bank while wearing a cap with the distinctive bunny logo.

  • Ala. sheriff says inmate hid hacksaw in Bible Tue Oct 7, 8:48 PM ET

    DOTHAN, Ala. - Houston County Sheriff Andy Hughes said an inmate's bid to escape the county jail on Saturday was foiled by a correctional officer. Hughes said a 19-year-old man used a hidden hacksaw to cut through a cell bar, but an observant correctional officer saw the damage and searched the inmate's cell.

  • Mom brings rabid bat to school, lets kids touch it Tue Oct 7, 8:45 PM ET

    STEVENSVILLE, Mont. - About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.

  • A man identified as a middle-aged Westerner swims in the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Japanese police officers on a boat try to apprehend him on Tuesday October 7, 2008. Japanese police have apprehended the man who went skinny dipping in the moat around the Imperial Palace, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, Shinichiro Maeta)
    Man nabbed for skinny dipping in Japan palace moat Tue Oct 7, 4:25 PM ET

    TOKYO - Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd, officials said Tuesday.

  • Woman seeks new route after 2 intersection wrecks Mon Oct 6, 9:26 PM ET

    POCATELLO, Idaho - An intersection in southeastern Idaho has proven unlucky for a woman who's been in two car accidents at the same crossroads since August. Kris Payne was driving at the intersection of Pole Line and Eldredge roads on Thursday when another driver ran a red light and collided into her Chevy Blazer.

  • Extremely drunk R.I. driver pleads no contest Mon Oct 6, 9:24 PM ET

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A man who state police said had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit when he was arrested in July has pleaded no contest to drunken driving.

  • 'Bra Bandit' strikes again in southwest Florida Mon Oct 6, 9:24 PM ET

    BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - There's a bra bandit on the loose in southwest Florida. The Lee County Sheriff's Office was searching for an individual they say stole 160 bras valued at nearly $6,000 on Thursday from a Victoria Secret store, the latest in a string of bra burglaries in the area.

  • 86 cats rescued from 2-bedroom condo in Colorado Mon Oct 6, 9:24 PM ET

    GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - A Glenwood Springs animal shelter was trying to find homes for 86 cats rescued from a two-bedroom condominium. The Colorado Animal Rescue Shelter received the cats on Wednesday. Since then, workers have been scrambling to accommodate the animals at area shelters and homes.

  • Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin Sat Oct 4, 8:30 PM ET

    ELK GROVE, Calif. - That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds.

  • In this undated image released by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT student Oliver Smoot is shown lying on the ground of the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge in Cambridge, Mass. Smoot was the shortest pledge in the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity in 1958 when its members decided to lay him on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. After discovering Smoot measured 5-foot-7 inches, they marked the bridge every five feet and seven inches, with an eventually exhausted Smoot getting up and down for each new measurement. They soon determined the bridge was 364.4 'Smoots' long. Smoot returned Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008, to be honored at MIT, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented the unique measurement 50 years ago. (AP Photo/MIT)
    'Smoot' measurement reaches new heights at MIT Sun Oct 5, 10:50 AM ET

    CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago.

  • Sue Nace is photographed at her home in Red Lion, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. What to wear on Election Day could become a serious question for Pennsylvania voters as a state court considers whether to ban campaign buttons, T-shirts and other apparel from polling places. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    GOP, Democrats battle in Pa. over voter dress code Sat Oct 4, 10:01 AM ET

    HARRISBURG, Pa. - Sue Nace thought election volunteers were joking when they told her she would have to remove her T-shirt to vote in the presidential primary last spring.

  • Beau of woman stuck on toilet wins lottery again Tue Oct 7, 4:35 PM ET

    GREAT BEND, Kan. - A Kansas man whose girlfriend was physically stuck to the toilet in their home wins $20,000 in the state Lottery, for the second time this year.

  • Matani Shakya, 3, newly appointed 'kumari,' or living goddess in Nepal, looks on as farewell rituals are performed before taking her to kumari house in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. Selected between the ages of 2 and 4, living goddesses are worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists. Devotees touch the girls' feet with their foreheads, the highest sign of respect among Hindus in Nepal. During religious festivals the girls are wheeled around on a chariot pulled by devotees. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)
    Nepal appoints 3-year-old as new living goddess Tue Oct 7, 9:59 AM ET

    KATMANDU, Nepal - Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.

  • Chinese winner Yakefujang Maimitili walks on a high wire during the World High Wire Championships in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. Twenty seven high-wire walkers from 14 countries challenged on the tightrope, a wire rope of 30 millimeters in diameter stretching 1,000 meters across the Han River in Seoul. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
    Chinese wins tightrope contest across Seoul river Sat Oct 4, 9:33 AM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - A professional tightrope walker from China zipped along a wire strung across the Han River in just under 11 minutes to win Seoul's second international high-wire championship, which concluded Saturday.

  • This photo released by Lamar University shows Jim Westgate, a trained paleontologist and a research associate with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at the University of Texas Memorial Museum, posing in Beaumont,Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, with a fossil tooth of a mammoth that he found in Caplen, Texas, in the debris from Hurricane Ike. Westgate believes the fossil discovered in the Ike-damaged debris is from a Columbian mammoth. (AP Photo/Lamar University, Brian Sattler)
    Big fossil found in Ike-ravaged home's front yard Sat Oct 4, 12:27 AM ET

    CAPLEN, Texas - A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris.

  • 9 from Roswell, NM, claim $200M Powerball jackpot Fri Oct 3, 11:56 PM ET

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Roswell, N.M., is usually more associated with little green men than with greenbacks.