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Gloria and Ben Standing sell some coins to Doug Nyholm on Wednesday at Fairfield Inn in Layton.

Silver, gold, old toys, sports memorabilia: Association in Layton ready to buy

Last updated Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 12:11am

LAYTON — Ben and Gloria Standing, of Roy, had accumulated several miscellaneous old silver coins over the years. On Wednesday the couple was looking to trade them in.

The buyers, looking for old gold and silver coins, or toys and sports memorabilia pre-dating the 1960s, are part of the International Coin Collectors Association of Springfield, Ill.

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Davis County Sheriff Todd Richardson says, despite their orange tip, toy guns can look like the genuine article in the dark — and “the bad guys are making the real guns look like toy guns, so they can get the jump on officers.” (Photo courtesy of Bob Parrish)

Law officers: Toy guns look like real thing, create danger

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 6:04am

In the middle of the night, the suspect appeared to be an adult male — and the gun looked real.

“It was the most intense, scariest situation I’ve ever been in,” said Davis County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Benedict.

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FILE - A Nov. 5, 2008 file photo shows an Etch A Sketch portrait of President Elect Barack Obama, that was unveiled as the results of the presidential election were announced. Etch A Sketch is suddenly drawing lots of attention, thanks to a gaffe that has shaken up Mitt Romney's campaign. Ohio Art, the maker of the classic baby boomer toy, says it's sending a big box of Etch A Sketches to the presidential campaigns to say thanks for the publicity and a boost in sales. (AP Photo/The Ohio Art Company, Ellen Dallager, File)

Etch A Sketch sales skyrocket after Romney campaign comment, controversy

Sachi Fujimori The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 9:58am

All of a sudden everyone remembers it.

Twist, turn. Twist, turn. Make a line; make a picture. Unhappy with the outcome? Shake it and start over again.

Since 1960 Etch A Sketch has been one of those classic toys that most everyone plays with in elementary school, then leaves behind.

And then, a verbal gaffe by a Mitt Romney strategist named Eric Fehrnstrom made the iconic red-framed toy the talk of the Republican campaign.

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Isabel Hadley talks about the "Monkey in My Chair" program and her fourth-grade class at Cook Elementary School in Syracuse on Wednesday. Isabel has cancer and misses a lot of school, so the monkey takes her place in class. Fellow students place notes and pictures in its backpack for when it is sent home for a visit with Isabel. It reminds the students that Isabel will return and reminds Isabel that her fellow students miss her. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Monkey serves as reminder to sick Syracuse student, classmates

Loretta Park Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 7:18am

SYRACUSE — The 3-foot-tall, extra-soft, stuffed monkey sat on Isabel Hadley’s lap.

The fourth-grader had dropped by her Cook Elementary classroom Wednesday to say hello to her classmates and to see firsthand what the animal — officially named Monkey — was up to.

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Steve Jobs action figure pulled from market

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 6:45pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The company that began advertising for an incredibly lifelike Steve Jobs doll won't sell the figurines after all because of pressure from family and Apple lawyers.

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Patti Playpal was a favorite AChristmas gift for Sheila Love of Ogden and her sister.

Toys of Christmases past

Becky Cairns Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 1:31pm

Patti Playpal came into Sheila Love's life one Christmas when Love was 6 or 7 years old. The child-size doll was nearly as tall as little Sheila was at the time, and had brown hair just like the little girl did.

Patti was so realistic that once, when Love and her sister left their dolls sitting on the living-room couch, their mother caught herself talking to them -- mistaking them for her children.

"She looked like me and she was my best friend," Love recalls of her long-gone childhood doll.

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Polk Elementary student starts toy drive for children in need

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 7:13am

OGDEN -- Madisen Zambora was up past her bedtime two weeks ago when she saw a news story about needy children her own age and younger who might have to go without toys on Christmas morning.

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Feds warn against dangerous kid toys this holiday season

Jon Silman The Miami Herald

Last updated Friday, December 16, 2011 - 9:38am

MIAMI -- In a scene that looked a lot like Christmas morning, a table stacked with toys sat in a room -- never to be played with. There was a Barbie doll on a bicycle, a set of ping pong paddles and a huge inflated plastic ball.

The problem?

All the toys featured are either choking hazards, suffocation dangers or have traces of lead. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection displayed the toys on Thursday to warn the public about the dangers of some of them this holiday season.

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Science Saturday studies toys, magic

Charlie Pomerleau Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 12:08am

OGDEN -- Science Saturday classes from 9 a.m. to noon Dec. 10 will explore "The Science of Magic & Toys," presented by Mad Science of Greater Salt Lake in partnership with the Eccles Community Art Center.

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Toys 'R' Us finding new life

Thomas Lee Minneapolis Star Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 3:10pm

Once destined for oblivion in the face of withering competition from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Amazon.com, Toys 'R' Us has found some spring in its step.

The country's largest toy retailer, based in Wayne, N.J., is aggressively remodeling its stores and beefing up its online business. Toys 'R' Us teams are scouring the globe, looking to score exclusive merchandising deals. In June, the company filed plans for an initial public offering that could raise $800 million.

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Harrisville woman loses possessions in fire

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 10:30pm

HARRISVILLE — A woman lost a storage shed and all its contents in a fire Saturday afternoon.

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Toys 'R' Us goes solar in a big way

Joan Verdon The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 8:49am

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Toys "R" Us Thursday unveiled a solar power system at its distribution center in Flanders, N.J., a system that gives the company, at least for now, bragging rights to having the largest rooftop solar panel installation in North America and the second-largest in the world.

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Mattel ordered to pay MGA $310 million in Bratz case

Andrea Chang Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, August 5, 2011 - 11:36am

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge ordered toy giant Mattel Inc. to pay bitter rival MGA Entertainment Inc. more than $309 million in damages, fees and other costs in the long-running dispute over the billion-dollar Bratz doll line and rejected Mattel's bid for a new trial.

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Brigham City man taking toys to Joplin

Amy Macavinta Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 10:53pm

BRIGHAM CITY -- When Keith Yeager watched news coverage after a massive tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., on May 22, he couldn't help but think of the children.

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Is it really lights out for Easy-Bake Oven?

Chicago Tribune, Gregory Karp

Last updated Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 3:05am

Politicians, it seems, have killed the traditional Easy-Bake Oven.

Collateral damage in the war on energy waste is none other than the classic children's toy Easy-Bake Oven, introduced in 1963 and an inductee in the National Toy Hall of Fame.

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