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

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.  

We’re at least an hour outside of the city, regularly second-guessing our route as we make our way down winding, pitch black roads, nothing but fields of...

We’re at least an hour outside of the city, regularly second-guessing our route as we make our way down winding, pitch black roads, nothing but fields of...

Westminster's Halloween parade will be held Oct. 28

Ellicott City is haunted. For the little kids there is Trick or Treat on Main Street on Oct. 31.

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.

For you procrastinating poltergeists, we’re ready to act as your skeleton key to unlock a multitude of macabre merriments in the Carroll County scarea this Halloween season.

St. Louis School, a Catholic parish school in Clarksville, was named a 2017 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

Here’s just a sampling of fall outings in the Baltimore area, suitable for young and old, nature lovers and fright seekers, and everything in between.

Popular haunted attraction Bennett's Curse is back after missing Halloween last year

CarnEVIL, the Halloween fright fest at Merriweather Park on Friday the 13th.

Fortunately, the Ravens also sent along a camera crew to document the frightfest.

As darkness falls across the land this Halloween weekend, Howard County will come alive with activities for both the brave and faint of heart. All across the county, familiar landmarks will reveal a side seen only by the light of the Halloween moon.

A Maryland Science Center fundraising campaign is seeking to teach visitors how to be scientists through everyday do-it-yourself activities.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) will be proudly presented by the River Hill Theatre Arts Department, co-directed by teacher Pam Land and RHHS alum Jamie Driskill, on Oct. 27, 28 and 29 at 7 p.m. and Oct. 30 at 2 p.m.

Now-and-then pictures: The James Brice House, known by many as the most haunted building in Annapolis.

In October, it's common for horror nerds to commit to watching a horror movie a day. With "Hundreds Of Dead Bodies" (which is also a podcast availabl

The Bedlam Bypass is a limited non-scary hayride held on the grounds of Bedlam in the Boro, the fire company's annual haunted house

At the Westminster Halloween Celebration, families turned out by the dozens to trick-or-treat at downtown businesses.

Joe Hudson went looking for the right building in Baltimore to create a Halloween haunted house experience. He wound up on N. Gay Street at a historic structure whose facade reads: "The Great House of Isaac Benesch."

Judging 16 candy options against each other. The Carroll County Times is hosting its inaugural Sweet 16 Halloween Candy Tournament where the tastiest treats will do battle to determine the very best. Which candy will win?

Halloween with its various forms of fun, food and trickery has always fascinated me.

The following programs will be offered through Carroll County Public Library. Registration is required only where noted. For more information, call 410-386-

Why not ghoul out with a cauldron full of spooktacular events held throughout Carroll County in the weeks leading up to Halloween?

The week ahead: CCPS meeting open to public, 'Bedlam' in Lineboro, concert

Our young people are a constant source of community pride. Tatyana McFadden entered and won medals in all six of her track and field competitions in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Tatyana won gold in the 400-, 800-, 1,500-, and 5,000-meter and silver in the 100-meter and marathon. Now that's impressive by any standard.

The following fiction and nonfiction titles are available at Baltimore County Public Library as of Oct. 9.

As we crept through the woods behind the deactivated Granite Nike Missile Base in Baltimore County, Joe and I stopped for a noise—a rifle firing in the

On the 20th anniversary of Tupac Shakur's death, a look through the Baltimore Sun archives at the 1996 story about the rapper's Baltimore beginnings

Some experts recommend having the end-of-life care conversation at Thanksgiving, when families gather together. But today, as I drove through my area, with its gravestone-covered front yards, I began to think 'perhaps Halloween.'

Whether gory and ghoulish or friendly and fun, Halloween decorating holds a special place in the hearts of some Harford County homeowners.

For Jeff Zolkiewicz and Greg Keller, two Mount Airy neighbors that team up to create a garage and front yard haunt each year, planning their walk through requires 10 months of planning, mechanical expertise, robotics work and a lot of latex.

Westminster hosts Halloween parade, haunted house and other activities

Communities, civic groups and businesses throughout Harford County are preparing a slew of Halloween events with games, haunted houses, costume contests and trick-or-treating for local families.

Halloween doesn¿t have to be frightening. Here¿s 10 of our favorite family-friendly weekend events young ghosts and goblins are bound to enjoy.

As the leaves fall onto the ground, and decorations go up, there's an extra chill in the air for Halloween approaches. For families of creeps and ghouls looking to escape their crypts and tombs, Carroll will be the haunted home to a number of spooky, creepy and fun Halloween events and celebrations.

"The Mesmeric Revelations! Of Edgar Allan Poe" transformed Pratt's West Monument Street mansion into a physical manifestation of Poe's fevered psyche, what the show calls "the mesmeric world." In this immersive performance, audiences are free to explore (most of) the Pratt House, presented as part gothic pageant, part haunted house, and part richly layered art installation.

When the proverbial curtain rises on Pumpkin Theatre's 48th season in October, the most important person to the future of the financially struggling company will be working behind the scenes.

Every fall, haunted attractions rise from the dead after a year-long rest. And each year, haunted houses, hayrides and trails find a new and creepier way to scare Marylanders.

Joe Hudson wants to terrify visitors at the haunted house he plans to open next Halloween. But for him, the venture is already little frightening.

The North Carroll High School Key Club is offering something a little different – Haunted Hallways — the evening of Oct. 17 in the hallways around the main auditorium in NCHS.

Laurel resident and second-generation Howard County firefighter Richard Blankenship is living his best nightmare and taking everyone along that he can. His newly opened Laurel's House of Horror is located in the empty, former Laurel 6 movie theater at the Laurel Shopping Center.

For now, Bennett's Curse has 22,000 dark and creepy square feet filled with bloody monsters and dark mazes. But soon the popular haunted house will be homeless, as the property it leases in Jessup is slated for development. Owners Jill and Allan Bennett aren't sure where they'll set up shop next, and Anne Arundel economic development officials are trying to keep them in the county.

The opening night party at Bennett¿s Curse Haunted Attractions in Jessup will be 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m., and the party's getting some good national exposure

Something about these chilly almost-autumn days makes us want to sip wine outdoors, watch a parade, browse a manicured garden, or, you know, get scared out of our wits. Fortunately, there are plenty of opportunities in the region for all of the above.