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ITHACA, NY--Somewhere, the late great Charles Schulz is rolling over in his grave. Schulz, the creator of the much-loved Peanuts comic strip (and a devout Christian), probably never envisioned a day when his characters would be appropriated for a “satirical story” about teenaged homosexuals. But that’s exactly what happens in the new play, “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," which the Ithaca Journal describes as “a satirical story that ... features characters from the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip gang in their volatile teenage years” It all begins with CB, Charlie Brown, who contemplates the death of his loyal dog,...

A teenager who was filmed swinging the family cat around by its tail was caught out when his mum shopped him to the police. Mum-of-four Karen Ridley was horrified when she discovered the sickening footage on her son Matthew's mobile phone. She threw her cruel son out of the family home, reported him to the police and then rang the Army, where he hopes to work, and told them what he had done to the helpless animal. The appalling minute-long clip, filmed by the teenager's friend, shows 13-year-old Belle, a black and white house cat, screeching in pain as the...

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