Halloween

Starline Costume Shop has stood off Bandera Rd inside Loop 410 since the 1970s and is a hot spot for last minute costumes and local celebrities.

Halloween should be a fun time for trick -or- treaters, but it can be scary for those with food allergies. The Food Allergy Research and Education has an option to help families trick-or-treat safely.

Don't be surprised if you see fewer chocolate treats in your trick-or-treating loot. Customers are souring on costly chocolate, resulting from a few disappointing cocoa crop years.

Here are some tips on how to make it through the night, mixed in with a look back over the years at how TPR and NPR have explored and celebrated the creepiness.

Trick-or-treat temperatures in San Antonio on Thursday night may be in the lower 80s or upper 70s, according to the National Weather Service.

A lot of us are about to have the experience of opening our front doors to find witches, goblins, ghosts, and Moo Deng standing on our porches. Why? Because it's almost Halloween. In this encore episode, we talk about what kinds of entertainment scared us when we were kids, and whether they still scare us now.

There is no evidence of any deaths or injuries from contaminated Halloween candy. Why are people still afraid of it?

For the remainder of the week, highs will generally stay at or just below 60 until a warming trend begins on Thursday. Highs on Saturday and Sunday will hover around 80.

All candies contain sugar. But some types of candy are less harmful to your teeth's enamel than others.

When are kids too old to go trick-or-treating? In some U.S. towns, it's illegal for teenagers to indulge in the sweetest part of Halloween – one even threatened jail time.