I'm looking for some very cheap furniture. I found a table for 39 bucks at IKEA, but I need a headboard. I don't really want a whole new bed because they cost about 150 bucks. I'm looking to spend about 50 bucks max on a headboard. Do you know where

A: I would suggest trying Craigslist, The furniture section is searchable by topic and by price. If you buy from a person rather than a company, the seller is usually looking to clear out space and may be flexible on the price. Currently there are 193 listings

JUNCTION CITY — Auctioneers sold $2.58 million worth of Country Coach motor homes in less than an hour Thursday, the highlight of a marathon liquidation sale conducted inside the factory warehouse.

Country Coach, a high-end RV manufacturer founded 37 years ago in Junction City, has gone out of business. Its assets are being sold to satisfy creditors under order of a bankruptcy judge. Virtually everything inside the sprawling plant has been put up for auction Thursday and today, from office equipment and furniture to tools and parts for motor homes and other vehicles.

Thursday’s auction drew a standing-room-only crowd. About 1,000 people registered as bidders, and 300 more from across the United States signed up to bid online, said Mark Reynolds of Hilco Industrial of Chicago, which conducted the auction in partnership with Commercial Industrial Auctioneers in Portland.

LEXINGTON, N.C. - A large vacant warehouse that was once a furniture factory burned to the ground Monday morning as every single Lexington firefighter worked to prevent the blaze from spreading to nearby structures.

As the first call to the fire department went out around 5 a.m., the glow from the flames lit up the morning sky and could be seen more than five miles away.

For hours, the building at 151 Elk St. -- constructed mostly with wood on the inside -- burned quickly, until there was virtually nothing left. Shortly before noon, the fire spread to the third floor of an adjoining complex that is home to several companies, including Liberty Wholesalers and Tradewinds Furniture.

All of the city's 47 firefighters were called to the warehouse to help battle the fire and prevent it from spreading. A ladder truck from the Thomasville Fire Department also came to assist, as did firefighters from five volunteer departments in Davidson...

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