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Survey Finds Toxins In 1 Out Of 3 Toys Tested (NPR)
U.S.-made children's toys don't always contain fewer toxins than their imported counterparts — despite recent high-profile cases in which foreign toys were found to contain lead. The nonprofit group Healthy Toys reports that one-third of the toys tested had significant levels of toxins.
Survey finds 1 in 3 toys have toxic chemicals (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A new survey finds that about a third of popular toys on sale this holiday season have significant levels of toxic chemicals.
30,000 toys donated to help kids have happy holiday season (Detroit Free Press)
A toy replica of a yellow school bus may be all it takes to ensure that some children across the state have a happy holiday season. That's what the Detroit Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers hoped when it donated 30,000 of the plastic toys to the Michigan Association of United Ways and the Lions Club on Tuesday at American Plastic Toys Inc. in Walled Lake.
Toys R rough on workers (Daily Telegraph)
THE giant multi-national retailer Toys R Us has been raided by federal officers over suspicions it has ripped millions of dollars off thousands of young workers.
Stewartstown display features trains, toys (York Daily Record)
STEWARTSTOWN -- This year's holiday display at the Stewartstown Historical Society features trains and toys.
More shoppers do research to find toys without toxins (Detroit News)
BERKLEY -- Rows and stacks of colorful, attractive toys call out to Evelyn Moses as she walks through the Doll Hospital and Toy Soldier Shop.
Toxic Toys (FOX 5 New York)
A new survey finds that about a third of popular toys on sale this holiday season have significant levels of toxic chemicals. Researchers for the Just Green Partnership -- a coalition of children's safety, public health and environmental groups -- tested more than 1,500 toys and found one in three contained medium or high levels of chemicals such as lead, cadmium and arsenic.
Toys 'R' Us CEO on Holiday Shopping (BusinessWeek)
Toys "R" Us' Gerald Storch on how he's managing the toy retailer as we head into one of the worst holiday seasons in decades
Samaritan Center program provides toys for children (Jefferson City News Tribune)
Karen Dunkle, right, a volunteer at the Samaritan Center, assists Connie Williams, also seen in inset below, as she looks for toys at the center’s Santa's Workshop. Williams was looking for items for her three grandchildren.
Both men who died in Toys "R" Us shootout had criminal records (The Desert Sun)
At least one of the two men who died in a shootout inside a crowded Palm Desert Toys ``R'' Us store last week is believed to have been a gang member, and both had criminal records, according to authorities.