PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A 6-acre tract in Philadelphia, owned by a church group derided as a cult, is available in an eBay auction, starting at $4.5 million.
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CERES, Calif., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Marc Mondavi, a California winery operator, has a new vocation, water-witching, and is called upon to find ground water for local wineries, using copper rods.
SEATTLE, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- The head of a Seattle submarine rental company said the wreckage of lost planes such as Navy Flight 19 and Amelia Earhart's can be found -- for the right price.
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Two Florida cities are battling for the title of conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon's 16th century landing spot ahead of the event's 500th anniversary.
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Florida said they arrested a man accused of stealing $600 from a nail salon after he allegedly left his cellphone behind at the scene.
MARATHON, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a man who called the sheriff's office to complain about his neighbors was arrested for possession of 3.8 ounces of marijuana.
SPRING HILL, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida say a woman suspected in several residential burglaries did the backstroke in a canal in an unsuccessful escape attempt.
JERSEY CITY, N.J., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police in New Jersey said they arrested a woman accused of charging at her boyfriend with a hammer when he refused to pay for laundry.
GLADSTONE, Mich., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Police in Michigan said they arrested a man who crashed his car through the wall of a bar and ended up in the establishment's bathroom.
PARIS, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A crepe manufacturer in France spilled the beans on the defense minister's classified visit to Afghanistan, saying he would be taking its products with him.
LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Freedom of Information requests by The Sun revealed Britain's Parliament spent more than $130,000 in taxpayer money on ceremonial garments for officials.
IBI, Spain, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A group of characters known as "els enfarinats," or "the floured," seized control of a Spanish town as part of a more than 200-year-old tradition.
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Word-minders at Lake Superior State University say "fiscal cliff" should disappear as the term used for the U.S. budget crisis.
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AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A baby-naming website says it predicts next year popular U.S. infant names will include: Hashtag, Tweet, Android and Pearl, Florence, Nellie and Eleanor.
ROME, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- An Italian business association says its survey indicates more than eight in 10 Italians will stay home on New Year's Eve for financial or other reasons.
ATLANTA, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- Thieves halted efforts to get some 40 homeless dogs new homes for the holidays in the Atlanta-area, pet rescue officials said.
NILES, Mich., Dec. 30 (UPI) -- A Michigan woman jailed over the Christmas holiday for swearing as she left a court clerk's office has been released on bond, officials said.
A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad
