The Butts County Sheriff’s Office has argued in legal briefs that it was merely trying to protect “unwary trick-or-treating children from coming face-to-face with sex offenders” when it began a policy ...

The city has scheduled trick-or-treating on Oct. 30, known as Beggars' Night, for 80 years. In 2024, severe weather forced Des Moines and other centra ...

If you decide to trick-or-treat on Halloween night, be sure to wear reflective safety items and carry a flashlight because the sun will set at 6:18 p.m. in Staunton. Safe Kids Worldwide also suggests ...

Halloween should be a time of spooky-but-safe thrills for kids, culminating in trick-or-treat night when little witches, ghosts and monsters go door-to-door in pursuit of candy. Unfortunately ...

Trick-or-treating has a long and winding history, beginning as a tradition during a Celtic holiday in medieval Europe. The modern version of the Halloween tradition began to take shape after it ...

Costumed trick-or-treating takes its inspiration from the Celtic holiday Samhain—“summer’s end” in Irish—more than 2,000 years ago. Samhain marked New Year’s Day and fell around ...