Pumpkins are now one of the most recognizable symbols of Halloween, but they weren’t used as jack-o’-lanterns until the mid-19th century. How did pumpkins go from being an ordinary squash to a ...

Guess what? The end of October is officially here, which means it's time to decorate pumpkins! While Jack-o'-lanterns are now used as festive fall decor, they were traditionally carved as a way to ...

Oct. 21—The origin of the practice of carving scary faces in pumpkins and lighting them from within got its start in Ireland in the early 1600s, when the legend of a shadowy figure began to arise ...

Bryan Yeager has had a scary dream or two, but that's OK. They have provided plenty of fodder for the jack-o'-lanterns he crafts. Yeager, a Summerlin resident and a financial adviser by day, takes ...