Tidbits

Author J.K. Rowling is eager to tell a judge this week that one of her biggest fans is in fantasyland if he believes a "Harry Potter" encyclopedia he plans to publish does not violate her copyrights.

Britney Spears' motoring bad luck continue. The pop star was involved in a minor traffic accident late Saturday, but no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged, authorities said.

Employees of the "Dr. Phil" television show posted bail for a central Florida teenager jailed for taking part in a videotaped beating of another teen, a spokeswoman for the show's host confirmed Saturday.

"Arnie and Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry" (Houghton Mifflin Co., 368 pages, $26), by Ian O'Connor: Legendary golf rivals Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus couldn't have been more different, both as people and in their approaches to the game that made them rich and famous.