Kids, Candy | featured news

Goodbye candy bars and sports drinks. Hello baked chips and diet sodas....

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.

Candy shaped like marijuana that's showing up on store shelves around the country won't get kids high, but aghast city leaders and anti-drug activists say the product and grocers carrying it represent a new low....

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

A British study suggests a curious association between eating candy as a kid and committing violent crimes in adulthood.

President Obama spent his last day on a Martha's Vineyard vacation buying ice cream treats at a general store and a cookie at ...