A bomb scare at a Lexington post office ends with a bang. A suspicious package was found outside the post office on High Street. A police ‘robot’ was called in to shoot the bag with water at a high-pressure, demobilizing the item. More: continued here

Boston Globe NY State Buys Worthless Ferry On eBayHard OCP, TXPut it back on eBay…current bid is $14800. Better get your bids in, officials say they are taking the highest bid, regardless how much the high bid is. ALBANY A ferry boat for New York Harbor, purchased by taxpayers for $500000, …

PARIS — EBay has temporarily renamed the yellow stars it uses to evaluate sellers on its French site after a complaint that the symbol had anti-Semitic connotations. More: continued here

An Ebay auction of the “last” bag of Woolworths pic’n’mix has attracted bids of more than £300. More: continued here

Ferndale residents worked hard to revive their post office In this rural hamlet tucked into the rolling hills of southeast Lake County, a postage-stamp-sized post office has served as the heart of the community. More: continued here

NBC13.com Dozen civil rights figures to be on postage stampsThe Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen civil rights pioneers take their places of honor on US postage stamps Saturday. The six 42-cent stamps are being dedicated in New York and are going on sale nationwide. The stamps honor the achievements …

EBay Founder Tweets About an Unusual LawsuitNew York Times, United StatesThat is what has happened to Pierre Omidyar, the eBay founder, philanthropist and start-up investor. For more than a decade he has mostly preferred to stay below the public radar, but for the last two years he has been happily Twittering …

All it took were six words on his Web site to bring the buzz back to golf. More: continued here

A dozen civil rights pioneers take their places of honor on U.S. postage stamps Saturday. The six 42-cent stamps are being dedicated in New York and are going on sale nationwide. The stamps honor the achievements of Ella Baker, Daisy Gatson Bates, J.R. Clifford, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles …

Man Fined In Post Office AltercationMesquite Local News, NVBy Morris Workman 02-20-2009 On Thursday, Mesquite Municipal Judge Ron Dodd heard the case of the altercation that occurred in the Mesquite Post Office parking lot on Feb. 10, barely a week prior to the preliminary hearing. … More: continued here