Odds and Ends: Elvis Is Alive Museum up for sale again on eBay

ST. LOUIS - The Elvis Is Alive Museum is once again for sale on eBay.

The museum's collection includes photographs, books, FBI files, DNA reports and other memorabilia that aim to support the theory that Elvis Presley never died.

Its owner, Andy Key of Mississippi, says military duties will keep him away from home for at least five months.

The 39-year-old Key set a minimum starting bid of $15,000 on the listing, which ends Friday. He bought the museum on eBay last year for $8,300.

Key told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he hopes someone local buys the contents of the museum and continues running it in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Bill Beeny, a Baptist minister who founded the museum in 1990 in Missouri, says he has no plans to buy it back. Presley died at his home in 1977 at age 42.

Chicago O'Hare hosts 5K race on newest runway

CHICAGO - More than 2,000 people lined up on O'Hare Airport's newest runway Sunday, but they weren't boarding a flight. They were running a 5K.

But try telling them that.

Several participants in the "5K on the Runway" race made mock jet sounds and threw out their arms to pantomime an airplane. Real jets using adjacent runways screamed just hundreds of feet overhead during the race, and bright red signs along the route warned they were in an area where aircraft were moving.

The event was designed as a community outreach effort to unveil the airport's newest runway since 1971. Proceeds will support a $750,000 sculpture called "Runners" that will be installed at O'Hare.

From Associated Press reports