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The jolly old elf has been spotted in Florida's Disney World and California's Disneyland. A spokesperson said Disney wanted Santa to represent the diversity of the parks' surrounding communities.

The ship headed to New York from Taiwan encountered a storm near the Azores on Jan. 15. Among the goods that went overboard were two cookbooks. Their release has been delayed for several months.

Drivers of the older models cars woke up on Jan. 1 to find that instead of changing for the new year, their clocks skipped back to the year 2002. A fix for the issue is in the works.

A few months after World War II, Sgt. John Gonsalves wrote home from his posting in Germany. He assured his mother that he was fine. Last month the letter turned up in a Pittsburgh post office.

The comic, in which the Hulk appears in his original grey, not his signature green, sold for almost half a million dollars at auction. It's the most expensive copy of the first Hulk story ever sold.

The threat posed to coastal areas by tsunami flooding gained new attention after the Indian Ocean catastrophe that killed 200,000. Now scientists say a huge tsunami hit the Pacific Northwest in 1700 -- and it may happen again.

The U.S. Postal Service has given the go-ahead to a year-long trial run for customized stamps. The first company to provide them is the same one that ran a two-month pilot program last fall... Stamps.com in Los Angeles. Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC offers details.

Writer Samuel G. Freedman's new book is Who She Was: My Search for My Mother's Life. Freedman's mother died many years ago, when he was just 18, and as he approached his mother's age when she died, he decided to find out all about her life. The result is a narrative fueled by facts.

A retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the life of Salvador Dali, going beyond the surrealist work for which he is most famous. Curators wanted to explore Dali's later efforts, which left many critics unimpressed. Joel Rose of member station WHYY in Philadelphia took an early tour of the exhibit.

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh is in the process of making over its world-renowned dinosaur exhibit, which includes 15 soaring skeletons. he specimens won't just be cleaned -- their poses will be adjusted to more accurately reflect current scientific research.