Store owner receives counterfeit $100 bill

An owner of a Lawrence store is urging area businesses to be on the lookout for phony money.

Yellow House, 1904 Mass., received the counterfeit $100 bill Monday afternoon. Carrie Neighbors, who owns the business with her husband, Guy, said the fake bill looked real.

Carrie Neighbors said a family came into the variety store around 1 p.m. Monday and purchased a stove with the bogus bill. It wasn’t until she actually felt the money later that night that she realized it was fake. Now she wants to warn other Lawrence business owners that more of the counterfeit bills could be circulating around town.

“They’re really good,” Neighbors said. “Obviously whoever made this knows what they’re doing, and we need to be watching for them so people aren’t losing money in these really tight times.”

Neighbors said this is only the second time in her 20 years in business that she’s received a counterfeit bill.

Police

Kissing bandit arrested naked

A naked man entered a woman’s unlocked apartment early Tuesday morning and kissed her as she lay in bed before being chased away by the woman’s boyfriend, police said.

The incident happened about 4:25 a.m. at an apartment in north central Lawrence, said Sgt. Dan Ward, a police spokesman.

The 23-year-old victim was sleeping but woke when she was kissed, Ward said. The woman’s 22-year-old boyfriend, a Lawrence resident, then chased the intruder out of the apartment.

A short time later police found the alleged culprit, a 20-year-old Hutchinson man, naked on the grounds of the apartment complex. They arrested him on suspicion of aggravated burglary and sexual battery. He was booked into the Douglas County Jail this morning but has not yet been charged.

Carrie Neighbors examining the counterfeit 00 bill on Tuesday.

Sports

Clinic to aid novice Tour de France fans

A clinic on the Tour de France bicycle race will be conducted Thursday at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop, 802 Mass. The clinic is called Tour de France for Dummies.

The focus of the clinic, which starts at 8 p.m., will be to educate cyclists and noncyclists in the different competitive aspects of the Tour de France. Clinic topics will include a breakdown of the main rivals for the yellow, green, white and polka-dot jerseys, as well as a look at this year’s route and the history of the tour.

“We get a lot of people who watch the tour on OLN in July, but they can’t figure out how Lance Armstrong wins the tour if he doesn’t win every stage,” said Paul Davis, bike shop manager.