The pins still stand at the ends of the 16 polished lanes. The balls — in black, red, blue, green and orange, or opalescent combinations of those colors — remain on the racks.

It was then that inspiration struck and I set about making baby food containers into a set of Star Wars bowling pins. What you need: 10 puffs containers, washed out with lids.

LAKE SUCCESS - Entrepreneur Tom Shannon is betting $10 million that Long Islanders will like his new version of what was once a conventional 56-lane bowling alley.

There are some pins in serious danger this weekend. Over the next two days, the best high school bowlers will be filing into alleys for their shots at state titles.

Bowling alleys across the country are ditching traditional pinsetters — the machines that sweep away and reset pins — in favor of contraptions that employ string.

The big arm sweeps them. They set them down. And that's the way we all grew up with bowling. Well, there's a new technology where there's cords that come out of the top of some bowling pins.

MILWAUKEE—A tougher breed of bowling pin is popping up at alleys in the U.S. and abroad. Serious bowlers have cause to fear them. New technology makes these bowling pins harder to knock down ...