AUGUSTA, Maine -- While in a small southern Maine grocery store with his mother last June 12 to buy sandwiches, Shane St. Pierre picked up a miniature baseball bat and flicked the switch to see what ...

TACOMA -- Joe Meinecke calls it his $50,000 lighter. Shaped like a miniature gun, it caused that amount of damage to a Tacoma family's home when a 4-year-old played with it and set a couch on fire.

A townhome across from Joppatowne’s Magnolia Middle School caught fire after a “novelty-style keychain lighter” exploded early Monday evening, the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s office said in a news ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- The cartoonish plastic frog with bulging eyes could be a children's toy -- but for the torch-like flame that bursts from the novelty lighter's head. "They look like something ...

Lighters, am I right? They’re small, easy to lose, and almost always essential to smoking a bowl. It is eternally frustrating to saunter onto a hiking trail or to a park sesh only to realize that the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Legislation banning lighters that resemble cartoon characters, toys or other items that appeal to children is headed to the House for a vote. A House committee Friday ...

PITTSVILLE, Wis. (AP) - The Pittsville fire chief is renewing his push for state restrictions on novelty lighters, six years after a group of second-graders asked him to help get the law passed.Fire ...

A grenade scare Friday morning at the city's police station turned out to be a novelty item, a lighter made to look like a grenade. Oct. 08--WILLIAMSBURG -- A grenade scare Friday morning at the ...