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Two-thirds of parents say their children will trick-or-treat this Halloween, but fewer minorities will let their kids go door to door, with some citing safety worries, a poll shows. Complete Story...
A dark mannequin hung from a noose as part of a homeowner's Halloween display drew complaints from members of the local black community, prompting the homeowner to remove it.
A woman says a neighbor attacked her inflatable Halloween lawn display of three ghosts and a giant pumpkin, then apparently smashed his head through her window in a fit of rage.
A ninth black teenager convicted in the Halloween night beating of three white women was sentenced to probation, community service and racial sensitivity counseling.
Four of nine black teenagers convicted in the racially charged beating of three white women on Halloween were sentenced to probation Friday.
Johns Hopkins University has put a fraternity on social probation because of a "Halloween in the Hood" party that angered members of the Black Student Union and sparked debate about race relations.
A jail went into lockdown and recounted its prisoners on Halloween night after a former inmate was spotted trick-or-treating in his old orange prisoner's jumpsuit.
The lawyer who divulged President Bush's drunken-driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested Tuesday after he was spotted on a highway overpass wearing an Osama bin Laden Halloween costume and holding a toy gun.
Johns Hopkins University has suspended the Sigma Chi fraternity because of a "Halloween in the Hood" party that drew protests by black students.
The Headless Horseman and Ichabod Crane returned to Sleepy Hollow for Halloween, and this time they won't disappear afterward into the mists of legend.
The crowd was a lot smaller, but so were the problems, at an annual Halloween party that ended without violence or the use of pepper spray as it had in recent years.
It really shouldn't be that hard to scare up a few new video games for Halloween. Most titles on store shelves already seem to involve some level of gory first-person bloodletting anyway.
Horror-film fans with a taste for `70s-style slasher antics can indulge themselves next week when the original "Halloween" movie returns to theaters for the first time in 27 years.
Tonight when a small child dressed up like Count Chocula comes to your door and asks for sweets, you might not think your participating in a grand tradition older then anyone can remember; that this is some unique American wrinkle upon an ancient holiday. Not so.
Prompted by school shootings across the country, a growing number of elementary schools have been trying to paint a friendlier face on America's day for celebrating mischief.
A series of race-baiting incidents have left some wondering about the display of Halloween ghouls in nooses.
Step away from that pumpkin! While we're more than happy to get into the swing of Halloween, we refuse to do a roundup of the trite and not-so-true haunted hotels around the world.
There are many different beliefs on how to treat All Hallows Eve. Some treat it as if is a day for evil, some treat is as a time to play tricks and gobble up candy; while there are some who treat it like a sacred holiday.
In Japan, Halloween seems to get bigger and more visible each year. Maybe it's due to all those Akihabara cos-play freaks, happy for a new excuse to dress up.
Celtic rituals may have initiated the observance of Halloween thousands of years ago with images of witches ghosts, devils and hobgoblins.
Halloween is actually an ancient year-end spiritual ritual, but these days you might not recognize it in its Spider-Man mask, says Gettysburg College sociology professor Charles Emmons.
In the New York Times article titled, "This Halloween, Man in Noose Wins a Reprieve" a woman (Jennifer Cervero) in Stratford, Connecticut was asked to take down a Halloween decoration that had a corpse on a noose.
This is the time of year, with little ghosts and goblins running around, that thoughts turn to all things scary; mostly fun, make-believe stuff.
We start off with an intense flick. "Haute Tension," a 2003 French horror film, was released in the U.S. as High Tension in 2005. It was directed by Alexandre Aja, who directed the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, another intense flick
This week -- as every week -- all the Republican candidates talked about was who was toughest in the war on terror. While the country's most populous state literally burned. The Democrats, as usual, said nothing, because they didn't want to offend fire.
To some, however, the Halloween motif was overpowered by the image of a man hanging from a tree branch. The body carried a much different meaning, one that is wrapped in images of black men and women being lynched.
The fact is, what you wear Halloween night says a lot about you. Before you decide to dress up as a sexy nurse or your favorite cartoon character, watch this video to understand what your costume says to everyone else.
Halloween is drawing nearer and nearer, and as a consequence we are now faced with the typical annual inundation on the TV networks of old horror movies.
Gary Larson's The Far Side has always been my second-favourite comic strip of all time, but I had never heard of this lost gem until now. At the beginning of that strange decade called the nineties, The Far Side made the jump to television in the form of a Halloween special.
Horror movies aren't all bad. Love the films or hate 'em, at least they put their huge success to good use. Each Halloween they hold a blood drive in association with the American Red Cross.
In a dozen incidents during the weeks before Halloween this year, black and white Americans around the country faced a kind of Rorschach test of the national psyche: Is that a funny Halloween ghoul in a noose hanging from your neighbor's tree? Or is that a racist symbol of lync …
With Halloween less than a week away, a lot of you have probably been doing some costume shopping. It's not just ghosts and goblins giving a scare. Some parents say, it's also the racy new costumes for girls.
Call me a Halloween fiend. After long admiring one block in a neighboring town where 20 houses stage an all-out horror fest, I've got this creeping need to replicate it in my frontyard.
Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos.
Meet one type of specialist whom you may never have hired or outsourced—ghost hunters. Whether you've got a ghost in the machine or in the house, these paranormal investigators can bring a technology tool chest with everything from thermometers to blimp cams.
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