Buying toys just isn't fun anymore. Six months ago, store shelves were loaded with cheap toys and metal trinkets. Grabbing an inexpensive present was simple. Now, as retailers enter what are supposed to be the busiest sales days of the year, shoppers warily eye Elmo, Barbie and Thomas the Tank Engine. Metal trinkets are hard to find. At customer service counters, glossy ad displays have been replaced by wanted posters featuring some of the estimated 25 million children's products deemed dangerous. ...more

December 9, 2007

Buying toys just isn't fun anymore. Six months ago, store shelves were loaded with cheap toys and metal trinkets. Grabbing an inexpensive present was simple. ...more

December 8, 2007

HOW SAFE ARE OUR TOYS? Despite improvements, toys and trinkets tainted with unsafe levels of lead can still be found on store shelves, another investigation by The Tampa Tribune reveals. ...more

December 7, 2007

Tests on more than 1,200 children's products, most of them still on store shelves, found that 35 percent contain lead - many with levels far above the federal recall standard used for lead paint. ...more

December 6, 2007

You know how it feels, and it's no fun: the dreaded flu. Your body alternates between fever and chills, aches all over and you feel like you're single-handedly supporting the facial tissue industry. ...more

November 27, 2007

Filing bankruptcy was a way to get out from under a crushing bank loan and turn around his slumping natural food store, Nature's Harvest Market. ...more

November 27, 2007

The popular but dangerous toy Aqua Dots toy was recalled, but the fliers advertising it apparently were not. ...more

November 26, 2007

With the infamous Black Friday shopping day just around the corner, consumer advocates and federal agencies on Tuesday issued a slew of consumer toy safety warnings. ...more

November 21, 2007

Federal regulators sought Tuesday to restore parents' confidence in toy safety, urging vigilance during the busy holiday shopping season with little mention of lead hazards that have prompted a record number of toy recalls. ...more

November 20, 2007

Parents and grandparents, ask yourself this question the next time you're standing in the toy aisle holding the latest Chinese import on your child's wish list: Do I feel lucky? ...more

November 9, 2007