For those who love Halloween, it's not too early to decide on a costume or at least a costume idea. Horror movie characters like Scream's Ghostface and Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy are easy go-to choices for those who wait until the last minute.

As Halloween approaches, the search for the perfect costume again moves beyond traditional ghosts and goblins into a pop culture realm dominated this year by everything from Beetlejuice to Buc-ee’s branded T-shirts, blankets and accessories that celebrate in the spirit of that sprawling roadside empire. Scary stuff.

Spirit Halloween is hitting back at Saturday Night Live, who aired a sketch poking fun at the costume store. The Season 50 premiere of the NBC late-night sketch show featured a sketch that made light of the retail store that sells Halloween costumes throughout October.

A Seoul court on Monday sentenced a former district chief of police to three years behind bars without labor over the city's tragic crowd crush of Halloween weekend 2022.

A South Korean court on Monday sentenced the former police chief of a district of Seoul to three years in prison for a botched response to a deadly Halloween crowd crush in the capital's Itaewon nightlife district in 2022.

The former head of a local police station in Seoul has been sentenced to three years in jail over a deadly 2022 Halloween crowd crush, making him the highest-ranking law enforcement official to be held criminally liable over the disaster.