The news of an 11-year-old Houston boy who was gunned down while fleeing a neighbor’s residence in a game of “ding dong ditch” hit home for former Harris County Chief Prosecutor Murray Newman. Newman, ...

A young person approaches a home, rings the doorbell (maybe knocks too) and runs. It's a centuries-old prank that at its best is a harmless annoyance for victims. You may know it by its playful names: ...

A judge in Virginia sent the so-called ding-dong-ditch shooting case to a grand jury Wednesday after new evidence was presented in court. Tyler Chase Butler is charged with second-degree murder for ...

A recent front-page story in the Orlando Sentinel looked at teenagers in Florida held at gunpoint and even shot dead after staging ring-and-run pranks — where they ring a doorbell at night and then ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The old-school ‘ding-dong-ditch’ prank has gotten an upgrade after a social media trend encouraging participants to knock, kick, or bang on doors has gone viral. Lexington ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ding-dong-ditch, the ring-and-run doorbell prank, is no joke and can escalate quickly with deadly consequences as it has in some ...

A South Florida firefighter is accused of chasing down four teens who ding-dong-ditched at his family’s Lighthouse Point home and hitting them with a bat, police said. Alex Michael Lutz, 31, a ...