A 6-year-old boy nearly died of asphyxiation when he was found entangled in his family's Halloween spider web display.

Cade Hampton's mother, Dawn, described finding her son trapped in the family's fake nylon-made spider web unable to breathe.

With barely three weeks to go before the nation celebrates Halloween, an Oregon man claimed the record for the largest pumpkin in the annual pumpkin weigh-off with a gigantic gourd that came it at 1,524 pounds.

With his giant pumpkin, Thad Starr, of Pleasant Hill, Ore., is set to receive get $6 a pound, for a total of $9,144.

A California man was sentenced to a five-month jail term Friday for killing an ostrich on Halloween day in 2006.

Aside from imprisonment, 19-year-old Timothy McKevitt was also ordered to cough up $5,000 to compensate the owners of Gaylord the ostrich.

Stacy Snyder's long-cherished dream to become a teacher was shattered just a day before she was to graduate from Pennsylvania's Millersville University. The university denied Snyder a teaching degree on the eve of graduation, apparently because her MySpace photo rendered her unfit for the job.

Snyder, 27, was severely shaken last year when she learned that authorities at Millersville University had decided not to award her a teaching degree because a picture of herself posted on her MySpace profile promoted underage drinking. She was instead granted a degree in English.