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A 6-inch Chinese porcelain bowl that was bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale was sold at auction Wednesday for a staggering $721,800, which includes a buyer’s premium. It was expected to fetch between $300,000 and $500,000 at Sotheby’s on the Upper East Side. The hammer price, which does not include the buyer’s premium and overhead premium, was $580,000. The name of the winning bidder in the Sotheby’s Auction of Important Chinese Art auction is private.

A state worker who applied for a disability pension claiming that anxiety, chronic pain, and fatigue left her virtually unable to leave home or lift a coffee cup to her lips has been arrested after she was videotaped bowling in Elk Grove. Lisa Trevino-Angelo, 38, was arrested without fanfare and charged by the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office on Aug. 8. She will be arraigned Thursday. The former Department of Motor Vehicles personnel specialist faces a misdemeanor count of filing a false claim and one count of making false statements and submitting false information to get benefits from the California...

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Bill Clinton (news - web sites) received a hero's welcome Wednesday on the streets of Dublin, where thousands travelled from across Ireland and then stood for hours in hopes of shaking the former U.S. president's hand. More than 2,000 people -some of whom had stood all night -waited their turn outside Dublin's flagship bookstore, Eason's on O'Connell Street. They provided one of the biggest, most enthusiastic crowds experienced by Clinton during his three months promoting his autobiography, My Life. "I always seem to get the warmest welcomes in Ireland. It's a special place," Clinton said. He...