Halloween

Jamie Lee Curtis is back for a new ‘Halloween’ and you can see her surprising look in the film right now.

At Halloween, the key for kids' movies might be that they're not too spooky. Just enough cute fright is festive, and it won't keep the kids up in the wee hours with nightmares. Did Texas kids follow the trend? They might have gone a little creepy with their choice for the best spooky movie.

Kids can start planning their strategies now, and make a scary face pancake at IHOP Tuesday, using fruit, candy, and cookies. This will be fun. And FREE. Let the sugar loading begin!

Twelve bucks for a jumbo-sized bag of Halloween candy? Scary. The next thing we know we've spent fifty bucks or more planning for trick-or-treaters, and let's be honest, because we want to hold back a stash for ourselves. It happens. Save yourself some stress, and shop these stores for the lowest Halloween candy prices.

If you are planning on taking your kids trick or treating this year, local law enforcement encourages you to preview the Texas Sex Offender Registration website

Texas schools now have to notify parents within five days if a classmate has head lice, and the hope is the new rules will help stop the spread. And then Halloween happens! There's a huge spike in head lice cases this time of year, and wigs and masks may be to blame. Eeww.

Oh, our poor pups! It's the worst season of their lives. There's nothing dogs dislike more than dressing up like a pumpkin, or a hot dog, or a cat for goodness sakes. But they're gonna do it this Halloween, in the name of fun. Check out the ten most popular Halloween costume ideas for pets, and tell us what you would add to the list.

If you saw the movie It and you want to keep that freaked out feeling going awhile longer, take this short road trip to Southeast Texas and you'll get more spooked. If haunted houses are fun, a huge, then a haunted hotel is even better! A two hour drive from Lufkin gets you to one of the most haunted hotels in all of the US.

This is the sweet spot in a pumpkin's life. Thousands of pumpkins that have grown up in a patch are off the vine now, and the clock is ticking before the dreaded shrivel and rot happens. So how long do we have? And there is at least one thing we can do to get pumpkins to last longer.

Yesterday while most folks were recovering from a Monday night of candy, and fun, Aaron Watson was penning an apology to fans for his wife's Halloween costume. After receiving negative comments on a photo of his wife, Kim, who was dressed as Disney’s version of Pocahontas, Watson deleted the picture and looked to clear the air with anyone that was offended...

So, where are the haunted locations in Deep East Texas?  I've heard 2nd and 3rd hand ghost stories about places and buildings on the SFA campus.  The above picture supposedly shows an area in Diboll that has a history of haunting.

Good luck today with your office cubicle decorating contest.  You are rockin' those cob webs. I have failed my children with my lack of Halloween decorations, so my 6-year old decided to take matters into her own hands and make something festive on her own.  And then the sprinkler system hit it.