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Ah, Halloween: the one time of year when it’s completely appropriate to scare the fecal matter out of loved ones and friends. If your goal is to make sure children can’t sleep at night, a disturbing urban legend is just the ammunition you need.

Especially around Halloween, most of us enjoy a good old-fashioned “it happened to a friend of a friend” urban legend that gives us a bit of a fright. Some of these tales may have even really happened. Well, kind of.

Joey Logano withstood a chaotic finish to win his third straight race, capturing NASCAR’s CampingWorld.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Sunday afternoon.

Joey Logano spun Matt Kenseth with less than 10 laps left and hung on to win his second straight NASCAR Chase race by capturing the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway on Sunday.

It might look like a standard corpse-hanging-from-a-tree prank, but sometimes something terrible really did happen.

The roots of our spookiest holiday's traditions—from pumpkins to trick-or-treating—run deep, their origins reaching back thousands of years to pre-Christian pagan festivals and superstitions.

Joey Logano led 227 laps and won the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina on Sunday.

Kevin Harvick dominated the field and avoided elimination from NASCAR’s Chase by winning the AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway in Delaware on Sunday afternoon.

Matt Kenseth passed an out-of-fuel Kevin Harvick late and held on to win the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday.

John Boehner will resign from his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives, as well as give up his congressional seat, at the end of October.

We Americans pride ourselves in being world leaders. Well, we have some work to do in one dubious category.

Details on Pope Francis's first visit to America.