Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. “We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen,” said Melissa McIntire, 23. “There’s a lot of relief involved.” The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is [...]

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Think global warming will raise the oceans enough to submerge Cape Hatteras? Want to bet on it?
An online gambling service has started taking bets on global warming, including whether it can submerge some of the East Coast’s top vacation spots.
The odds that Virginia’s Cape Henry will be under water by 2015 — 200-to-1 at BetUs.com. [...]

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The underside of a car is a familiar sight to auto mechanic Dean Blevins. Seeing one on top of him at 2:30 in the morning, while he was in bed — that was new. A Jeep crashed through a wall of Blevins’ apartment early Tuesday and pinned him in his bed. It took firefighters an [...]

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For many suburbanites, life without garage door openers is unimaginable. But neighbors of the Marine base here have been reduced to just that after a strong radio signal coming from the facility began neutralizing remote-control openers.
Residents have had to spend hundreds of dollars on new systems.
“I feel there should be some kind of compensation,” said [...]

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