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Reagan blood auction halted

Last updated Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 4:43pm

VENTURA, Calif. -- A vial that purportedly contains Ronald Reagan's blood has been donated to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation after expressions of outrage over its pending sale by a British auction house.

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Reagan's blood being auctioned off online

Steve Chawkins Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 3:29pm

VENTURA, Calif. -- A British online auction house is offering a glass vial that it says held blood samples taken from President Ronald Reagan after his attempted assassination in 1981.

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Town to auction first flush of giant toilet on eBay

Beccy Tanner Wichita Eagle

Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 3:48pm

LUCAS, Kansas -- The wacky folks in Lucas, Kansas, have always been known for their keen sense of humor.

The town of 407 residents is home to the "Garden of Eden," which features the peculiar work of S.P. Dinsmoor. He was a retired schoolteacher and Civil War veteran who sculpted 113 tons of concrete into various religious and political figures in his backyard.

In recent years, it has become known as the grassroots art capital of Kansas, in large part because it is home to the Grassroots Art Center dedicated to 20th-century Kansas grassroots folk art.

But now, Lucas can add one more notch in its quirky belt: The town has turned to bathroom humor and created a monument making Lucas home of the largest, most blingy toilet in Kansas.

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An existing run at Wolf Mountain ski resort in Eden is pictured in this file photo from 2010. The resort filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010 and will be up for auction on June 1. Jeremy Maughan, director of finance and marketing for Wolf Creek, hopes the resort will be sold as a whole, rather than piecemeal.

Wolf Creek resort up for auction

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 11:15pm

EDEN -- Wolf Creek Resort will be sold to the highest bidder June 1 to pay creditors as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan filed in 2010.

The auction will take place at 1 p.m. at the resort at 3926 N. Wolf Creek Drive in Eden.

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This Thursday, April 19, 2012, shows the obverse side of a rare 1792 experimental penny on display in Schaumburg, Ill., where is was auctioned off for (Canadian) $1 million on Thursday. Officials with Heritage Auctions say Kevin Lipton of Beverly Hills, Calif., bought the penny on behalf of a group of unnamed investors. It was never actually put into circulation and only 14 examples of the coin are known to exist. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, George LeClaire)

Rare 1792 penny sells for $1.15 million

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Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 1:34pm

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- When is a penny worth $1.15 million? When it is a rare experimental penny minted in 1792.

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FILE - In this March 26, 2012, file photo, Bill Goodwin, a Missouri collectibles dealer, holds up a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card in Sunset Hills, Mo. A New Jersey man, whose name has not been released, was the winning bidder for the rare baseball card _ at $1.2 million _ in an online auction that ended Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Rare baseball card sells for $1.2M at auction

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Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 9:41am

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A New Jersey man has paid $1.2 million for an extremely rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card.

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FILE - This Jan. 1, 2011 file photo shows Buford resident Don Sammons standing in front of the population sign in Buford, Wyo. The town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Michael Smith)

Wyoming town sold for $900,000

Bob Moen The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 5:20pm

BUFORD, Wyo. — Buford is a small place for sure, but so is the world.

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Farmington to sell used vehicles

Correspondent Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 3:56pm

FARMINGTON -- City leaders have approved a move to sell six used city vehicles through an auction surplus company.

The council voted unanimously at a recent meeting to allow the vehicles to be sold online through Public Surplus. The old vehicles include a 1990 Dodge 4 x 4, a 1994 Mazda pickup, a 2001 Dodge Durango, a 1988 Jeep, a 1991 Chevrolet 3500 four-door and a 1998 GMC single axle dump truck.

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Utah activist released from prison isolation unit

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 2:34pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A prominent environmental activist has been released from an isolation unit at a federal prison and placed back into a minimum-security camp after choosing an ill-advised word in an email about one of his legal-defense donors, his lawyers said Thursday.

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Buford resident Don Sammons stands in front of the population sign in a Jan. 1, 2011 photo. Sammons is the town's sole resident and will sell the town by auction. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Michael Smith)

Wyoming town -- population 1 -- heads to auction

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Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 10:30am

BUFORD, Wyo. -- What's advertised as the smallest town in the United States is scheduled to go up for auction next month.

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This Feb. 13, 2012 handout photo provided by Heritage Auction , shows the CGC-Certified 6.5 copy of Detective Comics #27 from the Billy Wright Collection at Heritage Auctions in Dallas,Texas. On Wednesday, the collection is expected to bring more than $2 million when Heritage Auctions offers the comics at auction in New York City. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)

Childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M at auction

Jamie Stengle The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 6:00pm

DALLAS -- The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published sold at auction Wednesday for about $3.5 million.

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Jan. 12, 2012 -- A 1977 photograph of James Earl Ray, center, that will be auctioned Jan. 28, 2012. The photo is from the archive of Jack Kershaw, an attorney who represented Ray. Kershaw is standing at right. (SHNS photo courtesy Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals) Black-and-white photo.

Auction of James Earl Ray items blasted for poor timing

Mike Blackerby The Knoxville News Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 4:08pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The mere mention of James Earl Ray, the man convicted of assassinating civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., still stirs a whirlwind of emotions in Sheryl Rollins, president of the Knoxville chapter of the NAACP.

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This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows the front and back of one of the first pennies struck at the United States Mint in Philadelphia. This 1793 “Chain Cent” sold for a record $1,380,000 in a public auction conducted by Heritage Auctions at a coin collector’s convention in Orlando, Fla. on Wednesday evening, Jan. 4, 2012. The linking rings on the back of the coin were intended to represent the original 13 colonies, but critics claimed the chain was symbolic of slavery and the design was quickly changed with a wreath replacing the chain. (AP Photo/Heritage Auctions)

Rare penny sells for $1 million at coin show

Ludmilla Lelis The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 10:31am

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Talk about a lucky penny. It was actually worth $1 million.

That was the final bid by an unknown buyer for the one-cent copper coin minted in 1793, the first year the United States produced its own coins. Its sale was one of the biggest deals at the coin show and annual convention of the Florida United Numismatics at the Orange County Convention Center.

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Jan Miller and her husband Larry Miller look over pallets of returned goods before bidding during an auction at Overstock.com's warehouse, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011,†in Salt Lake City. Over 600 people registered to bid on pallets of returned items during the company's first auction of this kind. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)

Retailer Overstock.com unloads goods at auction

Paul Foy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 3:54pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Overstock.com, the online retailer known for selling distressed merchandise, was feeling a little distressed itself. With household merchandise stacking up in a warehouse, it opened the doors Thursday for an auction of goods assembled hodgepodge that had to be bought together on pallets.

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This bleeding horse that was rejected by Mike's Auction before the start of horses auction in Mira Loma, California, November 13, 2011. This horse was later bought by Butch Williams on a side deal directly from the owner. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Horses, once prized, are paying for the dire economy

Phil Willon Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 12:18pm

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Black as night and 18 hands high, Clemente trotted up and down the pen as the auctioneer at Mike's Livestock rattled off bids machine-gun style.

The barnyard scents of alfalfa, leather and sweat wafted through the cavernous auction hall just outside Riverside, Calif., where Clemente and dozens of other horses paraded before bleachers overflowing with bargain-seekers, sellers and gawkers on a cold weekend night.

There were whispers of a "killer buyer" lurking outside, buying up swaybacks and broken-down mares to be shipped off for slaughter. A trio of amateur Mexican-style rodeo riders eyed horses suitable for hogtying and tail twisting.

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