100-PROOF TURKEY
NEW YORK (AP) - You'll need to be 21 to take a bite out of this Thanksgiving turkey. New York City tavern owner Paul Hurley says today he's unveiling the nation's first 100-proof turkey. A spokesman for the owner of O'Casey's Tavern in Midtown Manhattan says the bird is infused with fruit-flavored and 100-proof Georgi vodka. The gravy is also laced with liquor. The tavern is offering a free taxi ride home to anyone who orders the boozy bird.

ROAD FRIES
BRIDGMAN, Mich. (AP) - Want fries with that? Drivers had to play catch-up after a truckload of frozen french fries spilled on I-94 in southwest Michigan. The trailer on the big-rig broke loose when the driver tried to a avoid a minivan stopped on the shoulder. The westbound lanes were closed while crews cleaned up the wreckage and the fries.

PENCIL-FREE TESTS
BALTIMORE (AP) - The number-two pencil could be going the way of the rotary phone and the cassette tape player. Eleven schools in suburban Baltimore are starting a pilot program to test students with hand-held electronic devices. The gizmos look a little like a TV remote control with a small screen. They replace traditional pencil and paper tests. Mandi Dietrich of Baltimore County schools says the iRespond technology will save time and allow teachers to focus on their teaching. If the technology is adopted system wide, school officials say it will eventually save money on paper tests and scan sheets.

SMUGGLING KISS
MERCER, Pa. (AP) - Sealed with a kiss. A western Pennsylvania woman is going to trial on charges she passed dope to a prison inmate while kissing him. Guards at a state prison became suspicious when inmate Otis McKinzie appeared to swallow something after a prolonged smooch. Authorities say McKinzie wouldn't tell guards what he swallowed. So, they monitored his bathroom visits and found a balloon filled with marijuana three days later. Michele Jordan now faces conspiracy to smuggle contraband and other charges. Both have been ordered to stand trial.

NO JACKPOT
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - From nearly $42 million to just two bucks. That's what the Alabama Supreme Court says a woman is due from an electronic bingo machine jackpot. The court ruled the machine had obviously malfunctioned when it showed Sherry Knowles had won $41.8 million in May of 2006. The court said the correct amount was no more than two dollars. But Knowles' luck wasn't entirely bad at the Victoryland casino. She won more than $2,500 on the same machine that night.

COACH MOM
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) - The guys on the basketball team at Muskogee High have a name for their coach -- "Coach Mom." Angie Hillmon had been the girls coach. Now, she's a varsity assistant to the Roughers' head coach, Terry Scott. He needed her to fill in as scorekeeper one night last February. When the Oklahoma school had a full-time coaching opening, Scott hired her. Sophomore guard Eugene Timmons say he likes the new edition to the coaching staff. He tells a local paper (Phoenix) Hillmon sounds a lot like his mom.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)