EAST PEORIA, Illinois — Midwest Technical Institute celebrated Halloween 2018 by making their own “Pumpkin Chucker.” Some of the trade school’s employees made a homemade pumpkin launcher ...

Case Western Reserve University students and alumni launched pumpkins and other types of food through the air using a medieval catapult. The device was built for the 125th anniversary of the ...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Jacob Stevens, 16, knows how close he came to a life-changing or possibly life-ending moment last month. Stevens was using a homemade pumpkin launcher at his church's fall ...

Aryanna Pham and her teammates watched as homemade devices on both sides of them sent small pumpkins soaring 200 to 300 feet away, to oohs and aahs from the crowd at the 11th annual Pumpkin Launch ...

Bright orange shrapnel covered the ground — the byproduct of propelling a pumpkin into the air using a giant, homemade catapult. Silver Lake man constructs 17-foot-tall pumpkin-slinging catapult ...

Ten year-old Heather Owen and her teammate Ethan Gruner wore motorcycle helmets as they prepared to launch a pumpkin from a homemade catapult.As their fathers stood on opposite sides of the lever ...

Mr. Totman started about 13 years ago with a homemade trebuchet (a version of a catapult that uses a counterweight to add force). He’s currently on his second one, made from materials lying ...

If you put a pumpkin in a homemade catapult, how far will it fly? That's the question some high school students will answer Saturday at a pumpkin chunkin' contest in Lexington.

Philadelphia students test out pumpkin launchers at Fox Chase Farm 05:05 "If you look at this holiday season, there's about 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins that actually end up in landfills," Fox ...