Animals communicate with people, who also coexist with elves and gryphons, psychic abilities are taken for granted as talents, like singing, and magic is recognized as particular manipulations of earthly and human energy--welcome to the worlds of Mercede...

Several hundred fans inside Building No. 47 rose for a standing ovation when a fast-break layup gave the home team a second-half lead. The University of the District of Columbia was giving perennial Division II powerhouse Virginia Union all it could handle.Members of the student...