Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the Department of Energy. Yours doesn’t have to go to waste. Experts told us your pumpkins can ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sherry Jenkins is a Halloween person by default. She lives in Blairstown, New Jersey, a rural town where much of the original “Friday the 13th” horror movie was filmed. That date is, of course, a huge draw for tourists, but the town and its residents are all in on ...
METEPEC, Mexico (AP) — The first time he met a pope, Mexican craftsman Hilario Hernandez could not believe his luck. He did not travel to the Vatican as a guest, but as the guardian of the fragile ceramic piece he had created as a gift for Benedict XVI. “No one really planned to take me ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A baby elephant at the Oregon Zoo had more tricks than treats to show when handlers gave it a small pumpkin to play with during an annual fall event where giant elephants smash half-ton pumpkins. Weighing just 775 pounds, eight-month-old Asian elephant Tula-Tu is about ...
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “Remain” by Sparks/Shyamalan (Random House) 2. “Gone Before Goodbye” by Witherspoon/Coben (Grand Central) 3. “Always Remember” by Charlie Mackesy (Penguin Life) 4. “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 5. “The Intruder” by Freida ...
NEW YORK (AP) — With Halloween on the horizon, Chicago Costume is stuffed. Packaged costumes, including superheros and Japanese animation characters in both kid and adult sizes, dangle near colorful wigs and bottles of fake blood. Downstairs, vintage clothes from the 1970s beg for one more ...