If you had kids in the 1990s you may remember the Tickle Me Elmo craze. Take a look at this report from our archives. Neil Gorsuch says Supreme Court just made broad new legal rule Trump calls for 10% ...

(NEXSTAR) — Each Christmas shopping season has its own “it” toy or toys that send parents scrambling to acquire. And Christmas 2025 is no different. And while the hottest toys of Christmas 2025 may ...

The hottest toys at Christmas have come with various price tags over the decades. A Cabbage Patch doll would cost about the same as a Hatchimal if they both hit the market today at their respective ...

Dear Answer Man: Whenever I go to the Valleyhigh Drive Post Office in Rochester the parking lot is full. Sometimes I have to park blocks away. But when I enter the building there are often just a few ...

It’s wasn’t the days of Tickle Me Elmo or Cabbage Patch dolls or the Black Fridays with a barricade of shopping carts corralling shoppers to the Walmart entrance with a heavy police presence, but the ...

Ready to score some of the deepest deals of the year? Black Friday shopping has changed. Now, people can start getting the great deals early online and in local stores. It's not the same 4 a.m. wakeup ...

Black Friday used to be pure awfulness — fist fighting for Tickle Me Elmo in a WalMart anyone? But thanks to Record Store Day, Black Friday now devotes a tiny-but-vital slice of commerce to amazing ...

How do you feel about Elmo? It might depend on how old you were one autumn 40 years ago, when the diminutive, fuzzy red monster first appeared as a regular character on the educational children’s ...

A festive comedy with a unique twist on the classic "A Christmas Carol" story is coming to the Paramount Center for the Arts this December. "A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol" is returning to the ...

Viral holiday products are certainly nothing new — and even predate social media. Gen Xers may remember the run on Cabbage Patch Kids in the early 1980s or even the mad rush to grab a Tickle Me Elmo ...

The National Toy Hall of Fame has announced its 2025 inductees—Battleship, Slime, and Trivial Pursuit—recognizing their lasting influence on generations of play. The three classic toys were chosen ...

Two games and the bane of parents’ existence have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame for 2025. Battleship, Trivial Pursuit and slime made the cut for induction this year, beating such ...