NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Increased school violence in the United States prompted many schools to ban toy weapons from Halloween costumes for this year’s festivities.
LONDON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Scots are banning all things American from their annual Halloween celebration at Scone Palace in Perthshire.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- San Francisco officials say the city will not host any official Halloween celebrations during October.
ATHENS, Ohio, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Eighty-two people, many of them college students, were arrested in a Halloween street party in Athens, Ohio, police said.
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The pioneering 1978 horror movie "Halloween" is being re-released in high definition at a limited number of U.S. theatres this month.
SOUTH ELGIN, Ill., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- About 60 parents and children gathered at the South Elgin, Ill., home of a principal who canceled the elementary school's annual Halloween celebration.
LONDON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Halloween has become Britain's biggest autumn festival, replacing Bonfire Night which this year will mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- If it seems more and more ghosts and goblins appear on streets each Halloween, a study finds American homes will spend $1 billion on Halloween decorations.
MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Halloween has taken a double whammy in Moscow from both school administrators and church officials banning it outright, the BBC reports.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) --