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CONSUMER REPORTS: Toy balls caution
WSBT-TVThey're colorful and alluring, but Consumer Reports says there's a potential safety hazard with popular small toy balls and beads that expand dramatically in water. There's been one recall, but many more of these super-absorbent polymer balls are...Tags: Sepsis, Consumers, Malaysia
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Judge orders attorney fees paid in toy ape case
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A judge has ordered the Michigan Department of Human Services to pay nearly $50,000 in attorney fees in a case brought after someone placed a 5-foot toy ape atop the cubicle of a black employee. The Lansing State Journal...
Tags: Judges, Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bristol woman's baby toy invention drawing national attention
WSBT-TVBRISTOL – One big idea, and a local woman is now getting national attention for a new toy. It uses colors and sounds to help babies reach their potential earlier. The idea was developed by Marcia Haut of Bristol, who has years of experience as a... -
Stores borrow from fast-food industry's playbook
NEW YORK (AP) — This holiday season, Burger King won't be the only place where you can have it your way. It used to be enough for stores to promise discounts of up to 70 percent off to lure shoppers during the busy holiday shopping season. But the...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Sony Corp., Kmart, Black Friday (shopping), Hobbies
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Fake $100 bills found in South Bend
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – Games are a hot item this holiday season. Store manager Donald Willman at Imagine That! toy store in South Bend can point out the number one card game and a new type of chess involving lasers. “It’s high tech chess,&...Tags: Walmart, Lifestyle and Leisure, Abraham Lincoln, Game Playing, Chess Playing
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Breastfeeding baby doll: creepy or groundbreaking?
NEW YORK (AP) — We've got dolls that wet, crawl and talk. We've got dolls with perfect hourglass figures. We've got dolls with swagger. And we've got plenty that come with itty bitty baby bottles. But it's a breastfeeding doll whose suckling sounds...
Tags: Child Development, Toys, Services and Shopping, Janet Jackson, Consumers
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Fort Wayne detective claims fellow cops pressured her to watch pornography
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A female detective who complained that male officers invited her to watch pornographic videos and kept a sex toy as an office mascot was exposed to sexual material because she works in the department's sex crimes unit, Fort...
Tags: Pornography, Litigation, Trials, Laws, Justice System
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Family mourns Utah boy killed by mini toy cannon
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Family members and former classmates say they're still in shock after 14-year-old Utah boy died while playing with a miniature toy cannon. Lucille Hertel tells the Deseret News (http://bit.ly/zUeMEC ) her grandson,... -
Are your kid's toys sanitary?
Little kids love putting things in their mouths but are the toys they play with clean? And could they make them sick? Our Fact Finder team wanted to find out. We sent WSBT's Kristin Bien to the lab to test them and get some answers.
Many parents bought...Tags: Toys, Services and Shopping, Companies and Corporations, Salmonella Infection, Economy, Business and Finance
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Gettysburg gift store pulls Booth bobblehead dolls
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors' center bookstore. The dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were removed...Tags: Toys, Services and Shopping, Abraham Lincoln, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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Burglars take Ohio family's Christmas gifts, toys
PAINESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A family in northeast Ohio says burglars have stolen their Christmas. Whoever broke into the home of John Velardo and his family in Painesville Friday afternoon took two televisions, an Xbox game system, a laptop —...Tags: Christmas, Theft, Religious Festivals, Holidays, Xbox
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Late plea for Toys for Tots
BUCHANAN — With Christmas coming fast and his annual Toys for Tots program short on toys, Gene Wesner once again is looking for assistance from Santa’s helpers. “I don’t want to be begging but every little bit helps,’&...Tags: Walmart, Charity, Christmas, Human Interest, Religious Festivals
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