The catapult will set you back $19.99 and the trebuchet costs ten bucks more; if you get one or both, send us photos of the mayhem, we like to live vicariously through our readers.

Eric Cunningham pens a humorous column on a local nonprofit's annual 'Pumpkin Smash.' ...

It's not a good weekend to be a pumpkin. Starting Friday, the bright orange squashes will be loaded, launched and landing in dozens of pieces during the 27th annual World Championship Punkin Chun.

Welcome to a pumpkin-slinging contest. More than 100 high school students from northern New Jersey designed a catapult, each with the goal of launching a pumpkin the farthest into Lake Picatinny.

CLARENCE, N.Y. — The 14th annual Pumpkin Catapult Contest took place on Sunday at the Great Pumpkin Farm's Fall Festival. With nothing but wood and the necessary hardware, 12 Western New York ...