Snoopy (fictional animal)

They say kids don't read the paper anymore. I know one who does. Mine. Don't conclude that I force her to sit down with the newspaper because my livelihood depends on people doing just that. I can't even get her to eat a cooked carrot. My 7-year-old...

Another collection of dispatches from Somebody Nobody Asked™, America's pre-eminent unsolicited advice columnist. Dear Gov. Pat Quinn: Don't panic about your lousy standing in the Tribune poll published Friday. True, just 26 percent of Illinois...

Aberdeen Christian School students will present “Snoopy!! The Musical” Friday and Saturday nights in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church. The play starts at 7:30 each night. “Snoopy!! The Musical” is Aberdeen Christian School drama director Jennifer...

MetLife's most recent TV commercial opens with Charlie Brown strolling alongside Lucy, Linus and other Peanuts characters into a sun-soaked grassy field, a slightly hazy, idyllic scene that could pass for financial stability, the afterlife or California....

Patricia A. Disney Philanthropist, ex-wife of Walt Disney's nephew Roy Patricia A. Disney, 77, who grew up as a neighbor of Roy E. Disney in Toluca Lake and was married to him for more than 50 years, died Friday of Alzheimer's disease, her family...

COSTA MESA — It will be a Charlie Brown Christmas after all. Though Jim Jordan's foreclosed home at 2269 Santa Ana Ave. now belongs to Wells Fargo, the plywood psychiatry booth, character cutouts, Santa Claus stage in the backyard and other...

The Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra presents its popular holiday concert Saturday, Dec. 3. This year, it's "Holiday Melodies and Peanuts" — the Charles Schulz kind. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at Bel Air High School, 100 Heighe St. in Bel Air....

COSTA MESA — With the help tow trucks and community volunteers, Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang began the move Friday from the Eastside to their new holiday digs at City Hall. In the spirit of the special occasion, city...

COSTA MESA — For some 44 years, the Jordan family has crafted an elaborate Charlie Brown-themed Christmas display outside of their Costa Mesa home. The doctor was in, with a Lucy cutout offering counseling. Charlie Brown and Sally clutched a...

COSTA MESA — Snoopy's new digs may be bigger than that one-story doghouse. As Costa Mesa couple Jim and Linda Jordan battle Wells Fargo in court over the deed to their home on Santa Ana Avenue, city officials have assured them that if the battle is...

As Linda Jordan put the final touches on the characters in the "Snoopy House" Christmas display's dollhouse outside City Hall on Tuesday night, she broke down. "I just couldn't stop crying," she said. "It's not relief. I'm happy. I'm sad at the same...

On behalf of the city, I'd like to personally extend an invitation to the community to attend the opening-night celebration of the "Snoopy House" holiday display at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at its new home at Costa Mesa City Hall. Because of a foreclosure...