DETROIT (AP) - Volunteers have long patrolled Detroit's streets around Halloween to prevent and report arson fires that once numbered in the hundreds during a three-day period called Devil's Night.
But after three decades of work that helped drastically reduce the number of fires, the effort, which later became known ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Latest on a Halloween night shooting involving a San Francisco police officer (all times local):
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Officials say a San Francisco police officer wounded in a Halloween night gun battle was in critical condition and undergoing surgery.
Sgt. Michael Andraychak says the 41-year-old officer ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Heidi Klum morphed into a Michael Jackson-style werewolf, Neil Patrick Harris masqueraded as a carnival barker and singer Cardi B transformed into Disney villain Cruella de Vil as Hollywood kept up a tradition of elaborate costumes and lavish events to celebrate Halloween.
Klum's annual bash in ...
David Walliams, a British comedian and children's book author, is under fire for dressing up for Halloween as North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
Mr. Walliams waded into the controversy when he tweeted a selfie showing him dressed in a black suit, wearing a black wig and appearing to also wearing ...
MACON, Ga. (AP) - Authorities in central Georgia are investigating several shootings that left three people dead and wounded two others on Halloween.
Bibb County sheriff's Capt. Shermaine Jones described the four shootings as separate incidents that made for a "chaotic night" Wednesday in Macon.
The Telegraph reported one victim ...
BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) - Police are investigating a report by a suburban Omaha couple that their son found a sewing needle when he bit into some Halloween candy.
Lucas Ady's (AYE'-dee's) father says his son wasn't injured Wednesday morning when the 10-year-old sampled some of his haul from the night ...
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) - The family of a young eastern Wisconsin girl who was killed on Halloween night more than four decades ago is trying to stop her killer from being let out of prison.
Lisa Ann French was 9 years old when she kissed her parents goodbye ...
GREENVILLE, Mich. (AP) - On Halloween, Brady Wesley was beaming with excitement, trick-or-treating in his Sheridan neighborhood in a costume fitted to his wheelchair.
The 11-year-old boy, who since birth has dealt with a mitochondrial disease, leaving his muscles severely weakened, is sometimes ashamed and even bullied by other students ...
BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was published 200 years ago.
The classic piece of literature tackles this question: Should man possess the power to reanimate the dead?
Locally, there's another Frankenstein tale, albeit nonfiction: What's it like to bear the Frankenstein name?
Broken Arrow resident Wes Frankenstein, ...
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - When Nelis' Dutch Village opens April 21 for its Preview Weekend, it will be the 60th year since the local park first opened its doors.
Located along U.S. 31, south of The Shops at Westshore, Dutch Village plans to hold a proper celebration this year including ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Billy Cannon, the gifted running back who won the Heisman Trophy for LSU in 1959 with a memorable Halloween night punt return touchdown against Mississippi, died Sunday. He was 80.
LSU said Cannon, the school's only Heisman winner, died at his home in St. Francisville. ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jamie Lee Curtis is returning on a mission in the film that started her career in 1978.
The trailer to "Halloween" was released Friday by Universal. It's a sequel and reboot that ignores all other versions in the franchise except the original. It picks up 40 ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) - In Comic-Con's Hall H, the massive room that holds the highest profile presentations and hosts the biggest movie and television stars, there is still a strict division between the actors on stage and those in the audience. But Jamie Lee Curtis changed that Friday, walking off-stage ...
CORINTH, Miss. (AP) - Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after white teenagers cruised through their black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and shot him in the face.
"His eyes ... were hanging out," King recalled. "His head was full of pellets."
William ...
The original "scream queen" Jamie Lee Curtis cracked a horror joke about the current state of American politics after her "Halloween" sequel debuted Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival.
During a 2 a.m. Q&A that followed the film's screening, Ms. Curtis was asked if she's ever scared in real ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Freddy Krueger is coming for "The Goldbergs."
ABC announced Friday that Robert Englund is reprising his role as the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" slasher for a Halloween episode of the ABC sitcom.
The show is keeping with its 1980s setting. The Krueger episode, titled "Nightmare ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Shopping for Halloween costumes doesn't have to be scary.
This year, shoppers can find more ways to save time and money. Discounters like Walmart and Target are expanding their costume offerings and creating designated sections where customers can find more of their Halloween needs in one ...
DETROIT (AP) - The focus of a three-day Halloween period in Detroit is changing from anti-arson efforts to celebrations aimed at families.
Mayor Mike Duggan on Wednesday announced "Halloween in the D." Three parks and some city-owned houses will take on haunted themes. A harvest festival is planned downtown and ...
CHIPPEWAY FALLS, Wis. (AP) - A family's long planted history of harvesting fall's favorite fruit.
This year marks the 160th anniversary of the Connell Family Orchard in Chippewa Falls. The orchard offers 30 varieties of apples and apple flavored treats such as pies, cookies, dumplings, turnovers, doughnuts and more. Connell's ...
With hollow eyes and sagging cheeks, the flabby white mask of Michael Myers is horror's great blank slate. Project your fears here, it says. Myers doesn't speak. His movements never rise beyond a deliberate gait (well, aside from all the stabbing and strangling). Even his name is purposefully bland.
Decades ...