The sealed criminal charges against a 16-year-old Dearborn youth mark a rare test of a law governing how juveniles are prosecuted in federal court.

Police determined that a 19-year-old College of Charleston student who disappeared near his home on Halloween took his own life and are now searching for his missing body. Owen Tillman Kenney, of New Jersey, was last seen by his friends near King Street and Burns Lane around 2 a.m. on Oct. 31, according to the Charleston Police Department.

Religion, politics and student participation are all among the reasons some schools have abandoned Halloween celebrations that put candy-filled children in bulky costumes in classrooms.   Oct. 31

A second teen is now dead after the fatal shooting at a West Valley City neighborhood Halloween party, police said Wednesday.

The Charleston Police Department has charged a suspect in connection with a deadly apartment complex shooting on Halloween.

California Highway Patrol officers in the Hayward area busted two to eight times as many DUI drivers as those patrolling the rest of the Bay Area on Halloween, data shows. CHP arrested a total of 88 drivers in the Bay Area during its holiday enforcement.

Police in Riverside County have arrested a 35-year-old man from Temecula in connection with an alleged attempted murder in Murrieta on Halloween night. The Oct. 31 violence broke out at