Halloween
Find Out Where Sex Offenders Live Before Trick or Treating
Parents who are concerned and unsure of where to find accurate information regarding the presence of sex offenders and predators in their neighborhoods can visit the Louisiana Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry on-line.
Halloween Safety Reminders
With Trick or Treating just days away, we thought we'd share a few safety tips. Maybe one of these reminders will help make sure you and your Little Elvis don't end up in the Emergency Room or an attorney's office!
Check Out Some Wonderfully Awkward Family Halloween Photos [IMAGES]
The folks at ‘Today’ offered up a gallery of spectacularly bad Halloween photos culled from the Awkward Family Photos website.
There’s nothing wrong with homemade Halloween costumes per se, but these are simply unforgivable (and unintentionally scary).
San Francisco, Boston Among Best Cities for Trick-or-Treating
Everyone thinks their neighborhood is the best for trick-or-treating. But the folks at real estate site Zillow have actually compiled a list of the best cities for scoring some ‘tricks or treats’ this Halloween.
In creating its third annual Trick-or-Treat Index, Zillow considered factors such as median home values, crime rates, population density and overall “walkability” when choosing the 20 best urban areas in which to gather candy on October 31.
So how does your city measure up?
Halloween Light Shows – Must See [VIDEOS]
I thought Lafayette dressed up for Halloween until I saw these videos!
Dog in Tank Costume Wins PetSmart Halloween Contest [VIDEO]
While pets are usually ambivalent about the Halloween costumes their owners dress them in, Tangent the chihuahua seems pretty pleased with the added firepower of his spiffy tank get up.
The tank, which took first prize at the local Petsmart’s Halloween contest, features a gun that lights up and makes shooting sounds when Tangent’s owner pulls a trigger on her side of the leash.
18 Bizarre Homemade Halloween Costumes From Etsy [PICTURES]
Halloween Fun in Lafayette – Boo Bayou at Vermilionville
Vermilionville Living History Museum & Folklife Park invites the public to celebrate Halloween at the village with Boo Bayou, a Fall Carnival for the whole family being held on Saturday, October 29 from 12 – 2 p.m.
Halloween Fun in Baton Rouge – 13th Gate
The 13th Gate was again ranked by Hauntworld.com as one of the TOP Haunted Houses in America for 2011. Out of the 13 Top Haunts, 13th Gate ranked Number 3 in the Nation for 2011.
Halloween Fun in the Kitchen – Cupcake Graveyard
This looks kind of fun to me! The recipe calls for making your own frosting, but I'm thinking cake mix in a box, frosting in a can, a tube of orange decorating icing in a tube and a bag of Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies, and you're done! Or better yet, if you don't have time for the baking and clean-up, buy the chocolate cupcakes already made and then you just have to decorate the cookies and stick them in the cupcakes!
Haunted House Visitors Scared to Death in Hilarious Hidden Camera Photos
To get you in the “spirit” of Halloween, ‘Good Morning America‘ offered a slideshow of thrill-seekers making a scream-filled trip through the Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagara Falls.


