halloween

Four people — including a 13-year-old boy — were killed, and three others injured on a violent Halloween in Baltimore, police said, bringing to a close the second-most violent month of 2018, which saw more than a killing a day.

Judges from The American Legion, Carroll Post 31, and the GFWC Junior Woman’s Club of Westminster announced 19 prize-winners from Tuesday's Halloween parade costume contest.

A man was shot to death in Southwest Baltimore on Wednesday, and a separate shooting in Hollins Market caused James McHenry Elementary/Middle School students to be kept in the building after dismissal on Halloween as a safety precaution, officials said.

Every year Keith Oliver and his family add one more decoration to their smoking Halloween display.

Ravens safety Eric Weddle was hoping to dress up as Santa on Wednesday. Here's what his teammates remember about their own Halloweens.

By Jonas Shaffer

Oct 31, 2018

How old is too old to trick or treat? The debate has rankled some communities across the country, but  several Maryland towns have had a trick or treat age limit on the books for decades. 

By Lillian Reed

Oct 31, 2018

Westminster came alive with costumes during the annual American Legion Post 31 Halloween parade through downtown.

To me every Oct. 31, I journey back to when the holiday was less complicated, less commercial and ultimately one of the few with children at its core.

No need to bundle up under Halloween costumes this year — temperatures in the 60s are likely during trick-or-treating around Baltimore. Dry weather is also in the forecast.

By Scott Dance

Oct 29, 2018

“The Christmas Creep” is a term that is used in the retail industry to describe how holiday merchandise continues to be introduced earlier and earlier each year. This year, Times Editor Wayne Carter has noticed, it's completely overtaken his favorite holiday, Halloween, in many stores by mid-Oct.

Pat Hahn, a library associate, said every year the library changes the theme of the haunted house.

More than 2,000 children from five schools and 10 daycares in West Baltimore were expected at the annual Sandtown Halloween Festival, which allows students in a often crime-ridden neighborhood to have a safe Halloween experience.

By Talia Richman

Oct 26, 2018

Browns Bridge Light Show presents a festival of lights for Halloween and Christmas.

This week, I came up with two great, easy, spooky dinner foods and a little dessert because not everyone has little ones that go out trick-or-treating.

Children of all ages are invited to the 30th annual Halloween Costume Contest and Trick-or-Treat at the Festival at Bel Air in Harford County on Saturday, Oct. 27, beginning at 11 a.m. 

This year I thought I’d plan ahead at some fun ways to use up excessive Halloween candy.

Baltimore Municipal Golf Corporation, also known as Baltimore's Classic Five, will host the Halloween Glow Ball Scramble on Oct. 27 at Pine Ridge Golf Course.

According to Safe Kids Worldwide, on average, children are more than twice more likely to be hit and killed by a vehicle on Halloween than on any other day of the year. Studies show that, developmentally, children cannot judge speed and distance of approaching vehicles until age 10.

It’s the Halloween season and for a celebration of the marriage of legends, history, imagination, and storytelling, there is no better holiday — especially in Carroll County.

The Westminster location of Goodwill will host a Halloween event Saturday, Sept. 22, for those in search of costumes and decorations.

The Town of Sykesville and Downtown Sykesville Connection have agreed to change the date for Halloween on Main Street from Oct. 31 to the Saturday beforehand. 

The grocery industry is in trouble — so some retailers are putting Halloween candy out early.

By Christina Tkacik

Aug 17, 2018

Anthony Zurcher of the BBC recently quipped, “I hate when politicians start talking about the war on Christmas before the war on Halloween is even over.”

Americans must take greater steps to protect themselves from the Internet.

“This is not a reflection of what this community is about. This is an inclusive community."

By Colin Campbell

Nov 7, 2017

Halloween should be fun, not 'politically correct'

Those who wore racially insensitive Halloween costumes should be punished.

Report on racially charged Halloween costumes misses the point

The Lansdowne Middle School PTA gave out bags to trick-or-treaters at a school event containing samples of homeopathic children's cough syrup, prompting a warning to parents to take the packets out of the reach of their children.

By Libby Solomon

Nov 2, 2017

Baltimore private schools, parents, students — a group of which I am a part: We have an endemic toxic in our midst.   Don’t litigate, parse and warp the facts.   Like Barry Levinson’s character, be blunt and perhaps we will stop the madness.  

Baltimore police said large groups of juveniles committed several robberies on Halloween, taking cellphones and candy from victims.

By Jessica Anderson

Nov 1, 2017

Trick-or-treating, a new baby, and a Miguel bombshell — there's plenty going on in this episode of "This Is Us."

For the trick-or-treaters who happened upon the McDaniel College Campus Safety Office at 152 Pennsylvania Avenue, an outdoor table was stocked with tiny animal skeletons, a dolphin skull, 3-D printed bones, boxes full of flesh eating, dermestid beetles.

Helped by a warm, breezy and sunny Saturday, the 29th Annual Festival at Bel Air Halloween Costume Contest and Trick-or-Treat event Saturday at the shopping center in south Bel Air “was a great success,” according to its organizers.

On Thursday, Nov. 2, Premier Dental Care, out of Manchester, and local vendors will host a Halloween Candy Buy Back and Family Fun Night event, beginning at 6 p.m.

During Halloween in Fells Point's bar district last year, a 22-year-old woman was shot in the foot and three people were stabbed after a street fight.

By Talia Richman

Oct 30, 2017

A dozen children from six new moms dress up for an annual Halloween group costume

There's something strange in the neighborhood in Season 2, Episode 2 of "Stranger Things."

Several elite Baltimore schools are responding to photos posted on social media over the weekend of students dressed Halloween costumes many have called racially offensive.

By Sarah Gantz

Oct 30, 2017

Halloween in early 19th century America was a night for pranks, tricks, illusions, and anarchy. Jack o' lanterns dangled from sticks, and teens jumped out from behind walls to terrorize smaller kids. Like the pumpkin patches kids love today, it was good fun — until it wasn't.  

Less than a week before children and adults all over the country will be donning costumes meant to transform them into someone (or something) else, the debate over what constitutes an offensive Halloween costume, and how much people should care, rages on.

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 26, 2017

It's Halloween time in Fort Grey, and the mayor is throwing a party.

In a city as colorful and proudly off-kilter as ours, Halloween makes for one fun weekend in Baltimore.

By Wesley Case

Oct 25, 2017

A spooky witch, creepy webs, fire pits and skulls. Rodgers Forge residents do Halloween big.

By Margarita Cambest

Oct 25, 2017

Halloween Weekend in Harford County starts Friday and runs through Halloween Night on Tuesday.

Locals in the Catonsville and Arbutus areas are keeping Halloween traditions alive

By Libby Solomon

Oct 23, 2017

Westminster's Halloween parade will be held Oct. 28

The 10 best arts and entertainment events in Baltimore the week of Oct. 22-28, 2017

By Chris Kaltenbach

Oct 22, 2017

Superhero costumes increase in popularity for Halloween costumes

The college’s annual haunted house, which has been a student-run production for more than five years and was scheduled to open tonight, has been canceled due to fire code violations, the school says.

By Brittany Britto

Oct 19, 2017