yahoonews is giving me the wrong local news

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on a laptop i own my firefox 3.6 homepage is set to yahoonews;
it is giving me the local news for sunnyvale CA even though i am on the eastern coast;
i restarted the computer, no open ports on my router when i scan with nmap, no port forwarding or vpn set up, other computers in the house are not having the same issue;
 
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Did you change your default city on yahoo? Mine was like that when I first got my macbook pro, and I changed it on the city dropdown.
 
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there is a link right above the local news that says "change location"
hovering over it says: news dot yahoo dot com/#changelocation
when i click it just reloads the same page;
weird
what else would i look for to change default city?
 
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Not really sure.

You should be able to click the arrow next to the location and it will pop up where you can put in your zip code and select a box to set it as your default location. If it's not loading, maybe it's an issue with your browser? I'm on my work PC (windows), but I checked and it worked fine for me.
 
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i was able to find a another link to point me to local news and it detects my correct location, but after messing with this page for a while, home page is still sunnyvale CA local news;
weirdness;
peace out space pope
 

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