"Give us candy, give us cake, give us something sweet to take. Give us cookies, fruit and gum, hurry up and give us some. You had better do it quick or we'll surely play a trick." That quote is from ...

Anoka, Minnesota, began its Halloween celebrations in 1920 to curb destructive pranks by local youths. The town's civic festivities, including a parade, became a model for other cities to deter ...

Many early pranks involved “buggies.” Teenaged boys would sneakily take a buggy apart, piece by piece, only to reassemble it in unusual places, like churches, schools, or “rooftops.” Another popular ...

Tomorrow night is the night and this is a warning to all property owners of Redlands to take in their porch chairs and swings, put the hose under lock and key, and in fact to make sure that everything ...

As the Charlotte Hornets find their footing this NBA season, sitting at a 2-2 record, they’ve infused some humor into their practice routine, especially on Halloween. The team has been experimenting ...

ANOKA, MN – Anoka’s Halloween tradition began less as a celebration than an intervention. It was 1919, and the one-time logging town set along the Rum River about 20 miles north of Minneapolis was ...