Sure, you want your house to look as scary as possible. But certain haunting images are better left in the past.

The Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot looks like something that would hide under your bed as a child. “Gritty may be a hideous monster,” says the city’s official resolution, “but he is our hideous monster.”

That’s slower than the second quarter’s blockbuster 4.2 percent but puts the economy on pace for the fastest annual growth in 13 years.

It’s a prime example of “gentefication,” economic revival led by people with roots in the community. The cultural mix is a culinary celebration: African, Albanian, Caribbean, Italian, Latino and more.

LGBTQ students are more likely to be bullied, which can lead to missed classes and a higher risk of suicide. For them, a teacher who knows how to “queer” the classroom can make a big difference.

Ling Ma’s debut, Severance, won for fiction. Crown earned Derrick Barnes and Gordon James the young readers’ prize. And Rebecca Solnit’s essays, Call Them by Their True Names, won nonfiction laurels.

For the second time in just over two months, famed opera star David Daniels has been accused of drugging and then sexually assaulting a young singer.

Meth is back “with a vengeance,” police say. Now made mostly by superlabs in Mexico, it is stronger, cheaper and more prevalent, cutting across demographic barriers and sparking serious crime.

A brain structure that helps us walk in a straight line also appears to play a central role in emotional control and decision-making. The findings about the cerebellum challenge years of dogma.

Members of a far-right group were charged for violently attacking counterprotesters, journalists and one police officer at political rallies across the state.

Women across India have recently been going public about sexual assault and harassment. Many say they draw strength from the struggle of one woman: Bhanwari Devi.

“America First” has been a Trump mantra for years. The suggestion that the U.S. has been fleeced by foreigners has been his appeal to all those who find talk of “globalism” unsettling or threatening.

Democrats plan to launch oversight investigations of the Trump administration — a congressional duty that House Republicans resisted.

The 54-year-old got more than a dozen years after confessing to poisoning baby food with an antifreeze ingredient, putting the jars on store shelves and then trying to extort money from supermarkets.

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it’s not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.

In the midst of campaigning against each other for a seat in Vermont’s House of Representatives, Democrat Lucy Rogers and Republican Zac Mayo ended a recent debate with a striking collaboration.

The rebels also abducted a dozen children, Congo’s military said. The attack comes after two medical workers were killed Saturday while manning a port of entry to try to control the spread of Ebola.

A new study shows that slow rates of diagnosis and delayed access to treatment are the norm around the world.

Los Angeles held off Milwaukee 5-1 in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. The Dodgers will go to the World Series for the second year in a row, this time facing the Boston Red Sox.

In August, immigration officials hauled off 150 workers from a northeast Texas plant — one of ICE’s largest operations in a decade. Now the employer is pushing back.

“What we found is children had been so traumatized, they couldn’t even recognize numbers or letters,” says a U.S. official. “We had to work through that before we could start educating them again.”

Saudia Arabia has long seen its role as keeping the turbulent Gulf region steady and calm. But under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom has become far more aggressive.