Curses, foiled again
Police arrested Remo Spencer for stealing laptop computers and iPods from the Wal-Mart store in Great Falls, Mont., where he worked after he aroused a store manager’s suspicions by posting an ad offering to sell the electronics items on the store’s employee bulletin board. The Billings Gazette said a review of surveillance videos confirmed the thefts.

Custom fit
South Carolina officials exhumed the body of a 6-foot-7 man to investigate whether the legs had been cut off so it would fit in a smaller coffin when he was buried in 2004. Allendale County Coroner Hayzen Black, who was present during the exhumation, told the Aiken Standard he couldn’t comment on what he saw, only that criminal charges would likely be filed. “There were problems with the body,” he added.

What really matters
Legalizing marijuana is America’s most important political issue, according to an opinion poll released by the White House, followed by ending the taxexempt status of the Church of Scientology and legalizing online poker gambling. These findings, compiled in a Citizen’s Briefing Book, are the result of an online project by President Obama’s transition office to solicit policy ideas. More than 125,000 users submitted 1.4 million votes, 76 percent of which cited legal pot as the nation’s top priority.

Although the compilers acknowledged the open polling process was far from scientific, John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, hailed the results. “Poker players around the country are speaking with one voice to protect the game they love,” he declared in a press release, “and the White House is hearing that message.”

Homeland insecurity
West Virginia authorities charged two FBI workers with using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event. Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson told the Associated Press that Gary Sutton, 40, and Charles Hommema were working at an FBI satellite control room at a Fairmont shopping mall when they aimed a camera at a changing room and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes to watch the girls.

Compiled from the nation’s press by Roland Sweet. Submit items, citing date and source, to P.O. Box 8130, Alexandria VA 22306.