Warner Bros. is cracking down on local Harry Potter fan festivals around the country, saying it’s necessary to halt unauthorized commercial activity. Fans, however, liken the move to Dementors sucking the joy out of homegrown fun, while festival directors say they’ll transfigure the events into generic celebrations of magic.
A Montana mortuary business must pay a woman $50,000 after her husband was cremated against his wishes.
The Mormon church’s massive genealogical database will begin accepting submissions of names of people from same-sex relationships sometime next year.
A state appeals court has reinstated — at least for now — California’s law allowing terminally ill people to end their lives.
A 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official said Saturday.
Californians will face a choice this November of whether to divide the nation’s most populous state into three, an effort that would radically shake up not only the West Coast, but the entire nation.
California officials bucked a recent court ruling Friday and offered reassurance to concerned coffee drinkers that their fix won’t give them cancer.
Yosemite National Park’s largest sequoia grove is ready to open to the public after crews completed a restoration project to protect the nearly 500 ancient trees, officials said Thursday.
Lava pouring out of a Hawaii volcano burned down Mary Dressler’s home and her town 28 years ago. Now, watching creeping lobes of molten rock slowly wipe out entire neighborhoods over the past month, she has been transported back to those losses.
