Even a fuzzy Sesame Street Elmo doll can contain lead. That’s what a small group of concerned North Shore citizens found out recently during a lead and chemical testing event at the Marblehead ...

NEW YORK — The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Mattel, announced another recall of lead-tainted toys from China late Tuesday, its third such announcement in about a ...

Mattel recalled 9 million Chinese-made toys Tuesday, including Polly Pocket play sets and Batman action figures, because of dangers to children from lead paint or tiny magnets that could be swallowed.

Big Lots Stores Inc. and Dollar General Corporation have ceased selling Elmo’s Take-Along Card Games, a card game and backpack set, in Maryland stores after a Maryland Attorney General’s office ...