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She’s just a kid trying to help make peoples’ lives a little easier. A little less painful. And now she’s under attack for it – and her family is facing death threats. You’ve probably heard of Megan. Her non-profit is called Blue Line Bears. She, with the help of her family, takes the uniforms of fallen police officers and turns them into teddy bears for the surviving family members.

A “highly intoxicated” Florida woman was arrested for allegedly stabbing a minivan with a pitchfork — after she was spotted trying to sell teddy bears behind a supermarket. Lisa Slone, 56, was hauled off to the Lake County Jail Tuesday afternoon following the incident at a Publix store in Minneola. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report obtained by The Post, a manager at the supermarket on North Hancock Road told troopers who arrived after 2 p.m. that Slone was trying to hawk stuffed animals earlier in the day. The manager also said that Slone, who was observed walking around...

Who knew how brave they could be when not consoling each other in hug groups on campus? It seems that when university campus ‘snowflakes’ terrified of Donald Trump are not taking advantage of grief counsellors, hugging teddybears, taking to crayons or play doh, they’re calling for ‘shooting’ the president. Who knew how brave they could be when not consoling each other in hug groups on campus?

The next time there’s an event that calls for teddy bears and flowers, it would be nice instead to look for and elect leaders capable of seeing and dealing with these threats If like me, you’re sick and tired of teddy bears and flowers junking up public spaces because of yet another “man-caused disaster,” then you might be interested in the following: According to the Saturday edition of the Times of London, there are currently some “23,000 jihadist extremists” living in Britain and all are considered by The Times’ “intelligence sources” to pose a risk of violence. Some more than...

Teddy bears, tears, candles, cartoons, murals, mosaics, flowers, flags, projections, hashtags, balloons, wreaths, lights, vigils, scarves, and more. These are the best solutions the Western world seems to come up with every few months when we are slammed by another Islamist terrorist attack. We are our own sickness.

Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is set to tour the border Friday, officials say. House Speaker David Gowan will lead the tour, which will also include Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who dropped her run for the White House.

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LONDON, - Thirty-five percent of adults in Britain admitted they sleep with a teddy bear to help de-stress and sleep at night, a survey said. The hotel chain Travelodge surveyed 6,000 Britons to learn more about Britain's fascination with the teddy bear after its staff tried to reunite more than 75,000 forgotten bears left behind in its 452 hotels in England -- and found many were not owned by children. Twenty-five percent of male respondents reported they take their teddy bear with them when going away on business. Many said the bear reminds them of home and a cuddle helps...

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Apr. 11, 2006 23:57 | Updated Apr. 12, 2006 2:51 Pessah teddy bears plagued by taxman By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER An American 12-year-old who helped collect 7,000 teddy bears for sick children in Israel for Pessah had no idea that the stuffed animals would be temporarily barred from entering the Promised Land. Shira Goldstein's family spent the first half of this week begging the Customs Authority to let her teddy bears go. But the authorities only agreed to release them after NIS 8,900 in import taxes and duties were paid on Tuesday. "My heart could break. Everybody has stepped to...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2005 – A Missouri-based nonprofit organization uses the power of teddy bears to comfort young military family members with one or both parents deployed in the war against global terrorism. Little Patriots Embraced Inc. was incorporated in 2004 "to show support from the American people to the immediate family members of military personnel," according to the organization's Web site. The group solicits donations from individuals and corporate sponsors to buy and assemble gift packages, including teddy bears, that are distributed to service families at military bases, said Michelle Williams, president of Little Patriots Embraced for about a...

By Staff Sgt. Nick Minecci 214th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment CAMP TAJI , Iraq — Army Chief Warrant Officer Randy Kirgiss takes delight watching a line of parachutes open below his helicopter as he flies over Iraq . He is not watching Special Forces Soldiers descend to engage the terrorists, but his personal army of good-will ambassadors, stuffed animals, enlisted into service with the mission of bringing smiles to the faces of Iraqi children. The troops on the front lines of his smile offensive are what he calls “Parabears” or “Teddy Troopers.” “Operation Teddy Drop” was the brainstorm of Kirgiss,...

Big teddies 'lure children to gambling'By Brendan Carlin, Political Correspondent (Filed: 26/01/2005) Labour wants to reduce the size of Teddy bears given as prizes in seaside arcades to discourage children from a lifetime of gambling. The Tories have condemned the move as the nanny state gone mad and say cuddly toys do not turn children into gambling addicts. Under the same Gambling Bill, which will pave the way for eight Las Vegas-style super casinos with machines offering unlimited money prizes for adults, ministers want to introduce tougher regulations on the humble seaside arcade machines. The plans, criticised in the Commons...

A project to provide children in Iraq with teddy bears has been criticised by peace campaigners, as the toys are made from military uniforms. Volunteers at the US RAF Lakenheath base in Suffolk have been producing the soft toys from old and torn uniforms which were found in an attic. But campaigners Suffolk 4 Peace have said the scheme is insensitive and could traumatise the Iraqi children. A US Air Force spokesman said they were only trying to do the right thing. Lieutenant Jason McCree told BBC Radio Suffolk it was an act of charity. Inappropriate material "We feel that...

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2003 -- It's not easy being a kid whose mom or dad is deployed overseas to a combat zone. It can be confusing and lonely, and sometimes, downright scary. That's why a California-based nonprofit group wants to put into every affected military child's hands that quintessentially American yet internationally understood symbol of comfort and friendship: the teddy bear. Operation TeddyCare, the labor of love of a disabled Vietnam veteran and his wife, already has donated 2,500 teddy bears to military children of deployed service members. Each bear, presented through military family service centers, comes with a personalized...

The mother of a soldier serving in the Gulf is playing a unique role in the "heart and minds" campaign to win the trust of local people - by sending her son an army of teddy bears. Each bear sent by Dawn Taylor has a label reading "Please find me a child" and is meant to be handed out to a young Iraqi in the towns around war-stricken Basra. Mrs Taylor, 42, of Bearpark, Durham, is putting the bears in shoe boxes - along with a postcard of Durham City - and sending them to her 22-year-old son Mark. Mark,...

New State Laws to Take Effect Smokers in six states will pay more for their habit as of Monday, nudity with "artistic value" will no longer be off-limits to minors in Utah, and teddy bears will have official status as the state toy of Mississippi. Hundreds of new laws take effect with the July 1 start of fiscal years in many states. The laws reflect legislators' concerns with the burdensome threats of terrorism and budget deficits, spiked with a few less-weighty matters. Florida lawmakers, for example, found time to stipulate that cooking-school students under the legal drinking age can taste...