Halloween

Halloween In New Orleans Get Scary
By William Tucker Hart
November 1, 2011 - 1:04pm
Two dead and 13 hurt in a New Orleans Halloween shooting

Two people and 13 others were injured during a shooting early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The shootings were in four separate occasions throughout the city, including one on Bourbon Street where many were celebrating Halloween.

"We have made on arrest at this point," police spokesman officer Garry Flot told the Associated Press. He also noted none of the incidents were related.

Winter Comes Early for the Northeast
By Leanne DeRosa
October 31, 2011 - 12:37pm
States ranging from Maryland to Maine were hit with a snowstorm Saturday; a rare weather forecast for Halloween weekend

People across New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other northeastern areas don’t often expect large snowstorms in October, but this Halloween weekend’s unusual storm left some areas with up to 30 inches of snow, the Washington Post reports. The heavy snow weighed down tree branches that hadn’t shed their leaves yet, causing large limbs to fall.

Haunted Newhouse
By NewsHouse Staff
October 28, 2011 - 11:18am
The NewsHouse delivers a Halloween treat with this original horror movie set after hours in some of campus' darkest corridors.

Happy Halloween from The NewsHouse

Halloween is upon us, and what better way to spend a lazy afternoon than curled up on the couch with warm apple cider and popcorn to watch some of the greatest Halloween movies and TV shows of all time.

So, we compiled a list of our favorites –- the good, bad and downright corny –- and used them as inspiration to create our own Halloween film.

Syracuse teen shot on Halloween remains in critical condition
By Maddie Dockery
November 2, 2010 - 3:22pm
A Syracuse teenager who was shot while trick-or-treating is still in critical condition.

Savon Ellick-Sanders, 15, remains in critical condition at Upstate University Hospital, after he was shot while trick-or-treating with a group of friends on Halloween, reports the Post-Standard.

Not so morbid
By Durrie Bouscaren
October 28, 2010 - 3:20pm
CNN has a top 10 list of places to donate your body after you die.

Just in time for Halloween, a list of things to do with your body postmortem, according to CNN. Besides the usual organ and tissue donations, CNN recommends donating your body to medical students learning how to dissect, becoming part of the traveling Body Worlds exhibit, or participating in "the body farm," which studies bodies as they decay. You can even become a crash test cadaver. 

Three floors of Halloween madness
By Christine Mehta
November 1, 2009 - 3:52pm
Hundreds of costumed SU students flock to off-campus parties to celebrate Halloween weekend.

Dressed as Britney Spears with a platinum blond wig and glow-light breasts, Syracuse University senior Dave Mountain greeted costumed partygoers at his three-floor Halloween party Saturday night.

Britney Spears was just the beginning. 

Hundreds of Syracuse University students flocked to off-campus parties on Saturday to be a part of what has become a widely celebrated college tradition: Halloween weekend.

Halloween according to Joe Blum
By Joe Blum
October 31, 2009 - 12:21pm
Commentary: A holiday packed with fear, candy-binging and near-nakedness doesn't appeal to everyone.

I can only remember trick-or-treating once as a kid.

My family is fairly religious, so we didn't really do the whole dress-up-as-goblins-and-ask-for-candy thing. 

I do remember, however, many harvest parties, dressing up as Indians or Bible characters or vegetables. 

I was broccoli. 

As I have never really been a big celebrator of Halloween, I've often wondered what people enjoy so much about it.

Treat yourself this Halloween
By Nathan Mattise
October 30, 2009 - 6:47am
You're too old to be trick-or-treating so consider these for the scariest day of the year.

Why is this night different from all other nights? Halloween is an excuse to dress up and over indulge, which is what many college students do on normal weekends.

Try celebrating the holiday this year by treating yourself to these Halloween to-do’s for something different:

Can Syracuse football trick the Bearcats on Saturday?
By Kyle C. Leach
October 29, 2009 - 11:59pm
Fifth-ranked Cincinnati comes to the Carrier Dome for a noon Big East game. The top offense in the country gets the fast surface against a porous Orange defensive backfield.

The day of ghouls, witches and ghosts is upon the SU football team.

ZOMBIES!
By Nick Ray McCann
October 29, 2009 - 10:47pm
Meet a few of the living dead who recently roamed downtown Syracuse.

Hordes of the living dead descended upon Armory Square on Oct. 17, looking like they just pulled themselves from their graves.

Limping, dragging their limbs and eating ‘flesh’, zombies made their way from bar to bar in downtown Syracuse’s first ever “Zombie Walk” sponsored by local radio station 95X.