"It's a living thing," Karen Cooper tells PEOPLE. "It is nature's playground for all to enjoy" Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles ...

"I'm just having fun with something very serious," said bride who wed a tree. A 100-year-old ficus tree that stands as a focal point of a local park in Fort Myers, Florida, has a bride. Karen Cooper, ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Newlywed Karen Cooper is not going to be widowed any time soon. The landmark ficus tree she married in an attention-getting Saturday ceremony will be spared by the city of Fort ...