TOKYO (AP) - A fire broke out Wednesday in a building in downtown Tokyo in an area crowded with Halloween celebrants, paralyzing traffic, but no one was reported injured.
The Tokyo Fire Department said the fire started in a commercial building on a backstreet in the Shibuya district of shops ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Sex offenders under community supervision in Tennessee are required to be in their homes with the porch lights off on Halloween as part of a 10-day curfew surrounding the holiday. They also cannot decorate or give out candy.
And offenders are not allowed to take children ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A video has resurfaced of Joy Behar admitting on ABC's "The View" in 2016 that she darkened her skin while dressing as an "African woman" for Halloween in the 1970s.
In the clip, Ms. Behar boasted about how she has naturally curly hair and gave evidence by showing a photo ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Joy Behar and ABC were silent Thursday after an old photo resurfaced of "The View" co-host using makeup to darken her skin for a Halloween costume, the latest flashpoint in a series of blackface scandals making national headlines.
The 76-year-old didn't mention the clip on Thursday's ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Joy Behar waded into the day's hot-button issues on "The View" but no mention was made during Friday's live show about her own use of blackface many years ago.
The 76-year-old led discussions of Jeff Bezos, Cardi B and Frank Robinson although neither she nor her ...
LONDON (AP) — A clearly frustrated European Union has given Britain a few more months to find a way out of its Brexit quagmire. Now it's up to Britain's squabbling politicians to work out if they can meet the new Halloween deadline.
Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to brief ...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) - City police Sgt. David Dunn keeps a prophetic photo on his phone: his daughter dressed as a police officer for Halloween when she was about 5 years old.
Now, Taylor Dunn wears the same uniform he does.
"That's when I knew," he said as he showed ...
GREENVILLE, Texas (AP) - A gunman opened fire at an off-campus college party in Texas, leaving two people dead and 12 others injured before he escaped in the ensuing chaos, authorities said Sunday.
Authorities believe the shooter may have been targeting just one person at the party of about 750 ...