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Woman seeks new route after 2 intersection wrecks

AP - 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.

  • The sun sets over the sea in Dubrovnik, the famous Adriatic town, in Croatia November 3, 2007. (Nikola Solic/Reuters)
    Scientists develop solar cells with a twist Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 3:42 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be used to tint windows on buildings or cars.

  • A can of Coca-Cola is pictured in San Diego June 23, 2008. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
    Spermicide Coke, stale chips research wins Ig Nobels Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 7:01 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A researcher who figured out that Coke explodes sperm and scientists who discovered that people will happily eat stale chips if they crunch loudly enough won alternative "Ig Nobel" prizes Thursday.

  • A large male crocodile watches a crowd gathered for feeding time at Darwin's Crocodile Farm located 100 kilometres south of Darwin in this file photo from May 10, 2005. (David Gray/Reuters)
    Boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 3:10 PM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

  • Wild boar stand in the grounds of the Alladale Wilderness Lodge and Reserve Sutherland, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, in this file photo from May 19, 2008. (Russell Cheyne/Reuters)
    Numbers of wild boars surge Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 3:11 PM ET

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Wild boars are breeding at a huge rate in Germany and wreaking greater havoc than in any other European country by destroying crops, killing pets and even attacking people, according to a new study.

  • Bangkok governor candidate Chuvit Kamolvisit speaks during a news conference in central Bangkok October 2, 2008. Chuvit, an underdog in Sunday's election for governor of Bangkok, punched and kicked a television journalist on Thursday, saying he was provoked by tough questions during a live interview. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
    Political candidate punches TV host Reuters - Thu Oct 2, 11:55 AM ET

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - An underdog in Sunday's election for governor of Bangkok punched and kicked a television journalist Thursday, saying he was provoked by tough questions during a live interview.

  • Taiwan suggests SARS a China warfare plot Reuters - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

    TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan legislators wearing surgical masks and displaying banners with a skull and crossbones took over parliament's floor on Tuesday after the island's security chief accused China of starting the global SARS epidemic six years ago as part of a biological warfare campaign.

  • Malaysia critics say giant Anwar cut-out an idol Reuters - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago

    KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A huge cut-out of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim in a suburb just outside Kuala Lumpur has drawn fire as idolatrous and a waste of public funds, the Star newspaper reported on Tuesday.

  • Skydivers make unprecedented jump over Everest Reuters - Sun Oct 5, 1:27 AM ET

    KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organisers and participants said, culminating years of preparation.

  • Australian boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 2:12 PM ET

    CANBERRA (Reuters) - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

  • Judges' wigs get the chop Reuters - Fri Oct 3, 2:09 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - A centuries-old tradition of wearing a white horse-hair wig in court ended for many judges on Wednesday when a simpler new dress code came into force.

  • 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 AP - 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.

  • Playboy looks for bare market on Wall Street Reuters - Thu Oct 2, 3:23 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Playboy magazine is offering a new way to lose your shirt on Wall Street.

  • 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 AP - 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.

  • 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 AP - 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.

  • Chicken droppings cheap fertilizer for U.S. wheat Reuters - Thu Oct 2, 11:59 AM ET

    KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - For Kansas farmer Jeff Fowler, planting and fertilizing a new wheat crop this fall is a fowl job. Literally.

  • 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 AP - 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.

  • Bangkok governor hopeful punches TV host Reuters - Thu Oct 2, 8:30 AM ET

    BANGKOK (Reuters) - An underdog in Sunday's election for governor of Bangkok punched and kicked a television journalist Thursday, saying he was provoked by tough questions during a live interview.

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

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

  • Choir full of moans a surprise hit in Germany Reuters - Wed Oct 1, 3:08 PM ET

    BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A German choir that has strung together a list of everyday gripes about everything from lousy weather and bad services to poor leaders and unfaithful husbands has become a musical hit in a country that loves to complain.

  • Naked lunch promo dropped to placate town board AP - Fri Oct 3, 4:51 PM ET

    GREENVILLE, Maine - There's no such thing as a free lunch anymore for Black Frog Restaurant patrons nervy enough to run down a dock and plunge naked into Moosehead Lake.

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  • 9-year-old cat named Tama wears a stationmaster's cap of Wakayama Electric Railway at the Kishi station, in Wakayama prefecture of Japan. As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis, Tama has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)
    Tama is the purr-fect antidote to financial gloom: study AFP - Sun Oct 5, 3:03 AM ET

    TOKYO (AFP) - As the economic might of Japan faces up to the global banking crisis a single cat has boosted the finances of a small Japanese city by millions of dollars, according to a study.

  • Many workers do not respect their bosses Reuters - Mon Oct 6, 3:45 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Almost half of U.S. workers do not respect their boss and only half believe they are competent, according to an online survey released on Friday.

  • 'Bra Bandit' strikes again in southwest Florida AP - 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.