Just in time to deflect attention from real issues such as the Gulf oil spill comes a pressing new crisis: Silly Bandz. Schools across the country have banned the popular rubber bracelets, with ...

Have your kids gotten in on the Silly Bandz craze? The $5 packs of rubber bands in the shapes of animals, letters and other fun items are worn on wrists like bracelets — but educators say this fad has ...

When I walked into Fayetteville’s The Village Toy Shop last week in a casual search for Silly Bandz, there wasn’t a cheap, colorful plastic bracelet in sight. But I immediately joined a line of ...

Robert Croak founded Brainchild Products in 2003. In 2006, the Toledo, Ohio-based company started a national fashion phenomenon with the introduction of colorful, shaped rubber-band bracelets called ...

Silly Bandz are a popular fad for children today. But a preschooler and his parents found out the hard way that they come with a potential health concern. The parents had to take their son to the ...

A glass-walled truck motored its way into a strobing L.A. warehouse in April, careful to avoid the throngs of people who'd gathered for what they presumed to be a typical record release party. Behind ...