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Children were handed packets of cocaine instead of sweets on a Halloween trick-or-treating trip, Greater Manchester Police say.

Safety experts have long warned that Halloween is the most dangerous night of the year for child pedestrians. But new data suggest teens face at least as much Halloween danger as little costumed superheroes and princesses do.

The scariest thing about Halloween isn't the spooky costumes or gruesome monster makeup — it's the damage that sticky caramels, chewy taffy and hard candies do to kids' teeth, dentists say.

Sure, those trick-or-treaters are cute... at first. But as the night goes on, the Halloween visitors get older, and taller, and a bit more menacing. At what age should kids be cut off from trick-or-treating?

It's the ultimate trick-or-treating treasure, that one house on the block that offers the coolest candy and surprises galore.

During the week before Halloween each year, Lt. Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department in Georgia knocks on the doors of every registered sex offender in his jurisdiction.