One of America's Most Wanted Toys these days is the Yo Yo Water Ball: Kids want them for the playground; consumer safety advocates want them banned. Made in China and Taiwan and marketed under dozens ...

Yo-yo water balls, the stretchy, rubbery toys that are sold near checkout lines for as little as $1, pose a potential strangulation hazard to children but will not be recalled, according to a federal ...

Yo-yo balls have a more dangerous safety record than other products that have been recalled, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said in a letter Tuesday, questioning the failure of a federal consumer ...

It’s happened again. Two weeks ago, Brayden Daher, a 5-year-old boy from Bellevue, Wash., was nearly strangled when he got a Yo-Yo Water Ball wrapped around his neck. Subscribe to read this story ...

Lisa Lipin wants water-filled yo-yo balls off the market and has been hounding the Consumer Product Safety Commission to ban them since her 5-year-old son, Andrew, got the elastic string the balls are ...

After a nearly two-year battle, Skokie mother Lisa Lipin is one signature away from victory — against a toy. The Illinois Legislature passed a bill May 5 that would ban the sale of water yo-yo balls ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Fort Lauderdale woman says a popular toy that might be in many children's Christmas stockings this year could have killed her 6-year-old son. Dana Adler did some Internet ...

One of America's most wanted toys these days is the Yo Yo Water Ball. Kids want them for the playground; consumer safety advocates want them banned. Made in China and Taiwan and marketed under dozens ...

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