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Second Toy Found In Candy Appears To Depict Osama Bin Laden POSTED: 10:43 am EDT August 30, 2004 MIAMI -- In Miami, a wholesaler has announced that his company will recall 14,000 bags of candy. The bags contain a toy that looks like a plane flying into a building and, we found, a second toy that looks like Osama Bin Laden suspended between the two buildings. Eyewitness News broke this story, but, for the first time, we had the chance to speak with a representative from the corporation that distributed the candy. "Importers did not realize what they were buying....

Florida email this print this Posted on Fri, Aug. 27, 2004 Miami company pulling candy bags with toy depicting 9-11 attack ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MIAMI - A wholesaler is recalling about 14,000 bags of candy because some of them contain a Chinese-made toy that shows a plane flying into the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Luis Padron, national sales manager for Lisy Corp., said Friday the company distributes authentic Mexican candy in bags and puts a small toy in each bag. The toys were purchased in bulk from a Miami-based import company and Padron said his company had...

<p>SANTA ANA, California (AP) -- More than 100 brands of candy sold in California, most of them from Mexico, have tested positive for dangerous levels of lead in the past decade and little has been done about it, a newspaper reported.</p>

They are loved, hated, vilified, celebrated, parodied, decapitated, smooshed, frozen, fricasseed, microwaved and subjected to bizarre experimentation. Can an American icon get a little respect? To some, they are the essence of Easter, born in a place called Bethlehem no less, and celebrated in art, craft, song and ode. To others, they are the Rodney Dangerfields of food, suitable grist for Internet parodies, macabre recipes and mad science experiments. They are Peeps, the chick-and-bunny-shaped marshmallow treats that have become, like it or not, one of America's best-loved harbingers of the season. (True believers like to call it Peep Season, which...

<p>Professors Paul Chaikin, left, and Salvatore Torquato used M&M candies to reveal fundamental principles governing the random packing of particles.</p> <p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Princeton physicist Paul Chaikin's passion for M&M's candies was so well known that his students played a sweet practical joke on him by leaving a 55-gallon drum of the candies in his office.</p>

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. CHICAGO - Archibald Candy Corp. announced Monday that it is selling its Fannie May and Fanny Farmer businesses to an unidentified buyer and shutting down its decades-old manufacturing plant in Chicago, putting 625 employees out of work. The 84-year-old Chicago candy maker made the announcement after informing representatives of its five labor unions in a meeting. It said it is in "final negotiations" with a buyer for its candy businesses. The new owner will supply the candy to keep the Fannie May and Fanny Farmer brands going, Archibald spokesman Ron Bottrell...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area kids are saying no thanks to their Halloween candy. Schools in the Bay Area are returning their M&M's and Snickers bars to candy maker Mars. The children are taking part in a nationwide protest of the company's alleged use of child labor to make cocoa. International human rights organization Global Exchange is leading the effort.

<p>A San Mateo County judge on Friday ordered a Taiwanese candy manufacturer to pay $50 million to a Texas couple whose 21-month-old son died after choking on the company's gel candy.</p> <p>The judgment came just two months after the same manufacturer, Sheng Hsiang Jen Foods Co., was hit with a $16.7 million judgment by a Santa Clara jury following the death of an 11-year-old San Jose girl.</p>

26-Oct-2001 -- EWTN News Brief UNICEF HALLOWEEN BOX DONATIONS USED TO FUND PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISM NEW YORK, (CWNews.com/LSN.ca) - "Parents would be scandalized to know UNICEF actively promotes abortion and sexual rights to children," said Anna Halpine, president of the World Youth Alliance (WYA). "On top of that, the realization of these goals and programs are largely fueled by donations obtained from children trick-or-treating for UNICEF programs each Halloween."Halpine, a former Campaign Life Coalition leader and WYA founder, noted that UNICEF was founded in 1946, to help starving children after the destruction of World War II, in a WYA press ...

Candy faces life without her husband She plans return to work, considers a baby. John Hill / Louisiana Gannett News Posted on October 21, 2002 BATON ROUGE - The sadness showed in Candy Edwards' eyes as she struggled to capture her feelings in the final few days of her husband's freedom. "As long as this man is alive, I am going to be his wife," she said, her eyes glistening, her arm around his waist in the sunny breakfast room courtyard of their luxurious home. "I didn't want to do any interviews," she said, explaining why she declined all but...

Syringe sweets cause concern Updated 09 May 2002, 17.15Sweets shaped like heroin syringes are causing concern among parents and MPs. The "Freekee Drops" sell for 10p and people are worried that they could tempt children to start taking real drugs. The sweets come in a packet which show a dribbling cartoon character who has rolling, spaced-out eyes. The tube is full of red liquid which is shaped like a syringe and has to be squeezed to get the contents out. "Despicable" sweets Brian Donohoe, a Labour MP in Glasgow, Scotland said the "despicable" item was bought from an ice-cream van...

<p>Put down your knitting needle, granny, because Connecticut lawmakers are considering taxing your sweet tooth.</p> <p>It started with a 61-cent-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes to help plug the $650 million budget hole this year. But in the last month, lawmakers have called for raising the levies on alcohol, junk food, health club memberships, vegetable seeds, yarn, and even candy sold in nursing homes, hospitals, and schools.</p>