
With the Christmas season in full swing, familiar items have appeared in our homes and communities. Beautiful trees with ornaments, colorful lights on front lawns, department store displays, wreaths on doors and stockings hung with care. There also will be glasses of milk and plates of cookies, accompanied by important letters for Santa Claus, left this evening.

Radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham soon will be back on the air after taking a short break.
A rare archive of letters and drawings by "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz did not find a buyer at a New York City auction.

The late "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz was once so infatuated with a young woman 23 years his junior he sent her dozens of romantic letters and drawings of his beloved cartoon characters. Many of the themes of that correspondence made it into his daily comic strips at the time.

The late "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz was once so infatuated with a young woman 23 years his junior he sent her dozens of romantic letters and drawings of his beloved cartoon characters. Many of the themes of that correspondence made it into his daily comic strips at the time.
The late "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz was once so infatuated with a young woman 23 years his junior he sent her dozens of romantic letters and drawings of his beloved cartoon characters. Many of the themes of that correspondence made it into his daily comic strips at the time.

For more than a century, a successful archetype in newspaper comics has been the child-focused strip. The honors list is exceedingly long and includes The Yellow Kid, The Katzenjammer Kids, Little Nemo in Slumberland, Buster Brown, Barnaby, Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes.
Katherine Jackson is apparently back home, reuniting with Michael Jackson's children after a judge temporarily took away her guardianship because of her days-long absence from them.
Michael Jackson's mother says she was hurt by a court ruling that temporarily took away her guardianship of the deceased singer's children.