DENVER (AP) — A man taking a break from painting burned down his house this weekend after trying to snuff a cigarette in a bowl of paint thinner. Stevie Spencer had put the bowl on his coffee table before taking a smoke break about 10 p.m. Saturday. "I forgot paint thinner was in the bowl," Spencer said. "I thought it was water." The fire from the paint thinner ignited some papers, Spencer said. He evacuated his wife from the house, then tried to extinguish the flames with a hose. He suffered minor injuries before abandoning the house. Spencer estimated the...