The Trust for Civic Life — a collaborative of 15 grantmakers, mostly high-profile national funders — sees small, local groups as instruments of change — modern versions of the organizations that scholars from Alexis de Tocqueville to Robert Putnam have singled out as a distinguishing feature of American democracy.

Air Force veteran Jennifer-Ruth Green is eyeing an upset in an Indiana U.S. House district that has been Democratically controlled for nearly a century.

A man is dead after shooting a Jacksonville police officer and leading law enforcement officers on a chase Sunday night, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

New exhibits at museums in Ohio and California are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of Charles “Sparky” Schulz, the man who created the comic strip Peanuts.

If there were ever a list of fictional beach meetings that made significant cultural impacts, then this would likely be on it. On July 31, 1968 in the famous “Peanuts” comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown and Franklin met on a beach.

The Peanuts animated classics, including “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” will no longer air on broadcast television. It was first broadcast on television back in 1966, but for the first time in more than 50 years, it has been pulled. Apple TV+ announced that it has secured the exclusive right for all things “Peanuts.”As part of the new partnership, the classic Charlie Brown holiday specials won’t air on ABC or any other network this year. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” Thanksgiving and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” will stream for free for a couple days on the streaming platform. The Halloween special will from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1.

A farmer in California has broken the record for growing the states biggest pumpkinweighing in at 2,175 pounds. Leonardo Urena spent the summer tending to the massive gourd, on a 1200 square-foot- plot of land. The diligence Urena spent over the last two decades trying to grow such a pumpkin have finally paid off. Urena took the top prize at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Organizers said it set a record grown for pumpkins grown in the state.