NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on Halloween security a year after a deadly truck attack in New York City (all times local):
7:30 p.m.
Throngs of costumed revelers kicked off New York City's big Halloween parade amid tight security after last year's holiday was marred by a deadly truck ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Beyonce is in a 1990's mood as she salutes singer Toni Braxton for Halloween.
Beyonce appears on Instagram in a pixie wig, leather jacket, white tank top and jeans to re-create Braxton's 1993 album, which she labeled Phoni Braxton. In the last of the three images, ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Costumed revelers celebrated Halloween in a jittery New York on Wednesday with the city's police department out in force as precaution a year after the holiday was marred by a deadly truck attack.
Thousands of uniformed and plainclothes officers were on hand for the city's big ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California corrections officials say they arrested 110 sex offender parolees during an annual Halloween sweep designed to keep the offenders from contacting children or engaging in other Halloween activities.
That's about 9 percent of the 1,252 parolees contacted statewide Wednesday.
Officials said Thursday that eight parolees ...
MIDDLETON, Idaho (AP) - Idaho school district officials are apologizing after several teachers and staffers at an elementary school donned offensive Halloween costumes, one group in caricatured outfits depicting Mexican people and another group dressed as a border wall emblazoned with "Make America Great Again."
The Middleton School District Administration ...
BALTIMORE (AP) - Police say a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot in Baltimore on Halloween night.
News outlets cite a Baltimore police release that identifies the boy as Montrell Mouzon. Police say a citizen flagged down an officer, who found Mouzon lying in an intersection with gunshot wounds.
He was ...
ALOHA, Ore. (AP) - Authorities say the parents of trick-or-treaters in Aloha got sick after eating methamphetamine-laced Halloween candy.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office says deputies responded to a home in Aloha Thursday when they got a call of adults feeling ill after eating candy.
Authorities say the parents and ...
SHARONVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A UPS employee in Ohio has been fired for wearing blackface as part of her Halloween costume.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports UPS media relations manager Kim Krebs cited the company's strict policies against harassment and discrimination for the dismissal. Krebs says in a statement the ...
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) - A father says his 12-year-old son bit into a straight pin that was inside of the child's Halloween candy in North Carolina.
The father tells news outlets that the boy bit into a mini Snickers and noticed that something was stuck to the roof of his ...
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on a Southern California shuttle bus ride that went way off course (all times local):
7:10 p.m.
Long Beach police say a shuttle bus driver who took passengers on a long, scary ride wasn't kidnapping them: he was just lost.
Passengers began jumping ...
It's fun to dress up on Halloween and pretend to be someone else, the more unlikely the costume the better. The prize for dressing up as the unlikeliest of all goes this year to Kamala Harris, the junior senator from California. With an eye on 2020, and having discovered that ...
KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) - Residents of a Kailua-Kona apartment complex want justice for a 6-year-old boy killed on Halloween.
Julian Nedlic has lived at Lailani Apartments for 12 years. He told West Hawaii Today this was the first time anything like this happened on the property.
He says his children ...
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) - Tom Hagen and his wife expected to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in 2019. Today, one of Norway's wealthiest men just wants to know that Anne-Elizabeth Falkevik Hagen, the childhood sweetheart he married at age 19, is alive.
Her disappearance and suspected abduction from the couple's ...
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News announced its professional divorce agreement with Megyn Kelly late Friday, ending an association with the former Fox News Channel star whose attempt to become a network morning television star as part of the "Today" show floundered.
Terms were not disclosed. Kelly was in the ...
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A University of Central Florida student who was wearing ammunition around his torso as part of a Halloween costume was detained and questioned by campus police officers.
But they determined Tuesday that he wasn't a threat.
A news release says the student was wearing a chest ...
Trick-or-treaters beware: Halloween can be deadly for pedestrians and children face the greatest danger.
Research published Tuesday found a 43 percent higher risk of pedestrian deaths on Halloween night than on other nights near that date.
The study was based on four decades of U.S. traffic data, including 608 pedestrian ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - The weather might be tricky on Wednesday, so some Kentucky communities are moving Halloween festivities to make sure little ghosts and goblins still get treats.
Lexington Mayor Jim Gray said in a statement that the city will change its treat-or-treating hours to Tuesday from 6 p.m. ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is urging motorists to slow down and use caution as children take to the streets for Halloween trick-or-treating.
White says five people died in Illinois automobile accidents the past two Halloweens. He reminded motorists Tuesday that pint-sized ghosts, witches and ...
NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on Halloween security a year after a deadly truck attack in New York City (all times local):
7:30 p.m.
Throngs of costumed revelers kicked off New York City's big Halloween parade amid tight security after last year's holiday was marred by a deadly truck ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Costumed revelers celebrated Halloween in a jittery New York on Wednesday with the city's police department out in force as precaution a year after the holiday was marred by a deadly truck attack.
Thousands of uniformed and plainclothes officers were on hand for the city's big ...