FARGO — More than 300 elementary students are celebrating surpassing their fundraising goals with silly string. Clara Barton and Hawthorne elementary students set a goal to raise $4,000 dollars for ...

Some of humanity’s greatest inventions were created by accident. Corn Flakes were originally meant to be a dough made from boiled wheat, Silly Putty was supposed to be an artificial rubber, and Silly ...

Even though the Austin Police Department has grounded all drones at the South by Southwest festival, one vandal drone can be seen zooming around a design studio. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for ...

Monday may be the day prohibition comes to the party store. That’s when the town council is expected to vote on a proposed ordinance that would ban the sale, use and possession of Silly String and ...

The mother of an American soldier is organising a drive to help save the lives of troops in Iraq – by sending them cans of Silly String to help detect booby traps. Army specialist Todd Shriver, 28, ...

The invention of Silly String was a complete accident that nearly didn't happen. In 1972, inventor Leonard A. Fish and chemist Robert P. Cox set out to create an aerosol spray that would act as an ...

Jeff Severns Guntzel, who recently quit his position as a staff writer at the Minneapolis alt-weekly City Pages, blogs from the RNC protests in Minneapolis: . . . Soon there was another advance, this ...

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Two boys are accused of battery after they allegedly sprayed two other juveniles with aerosol string, authorities said. The boys allegedly used what is commonly called Silly String, ...

“Silly string,” a colorful aerosol foam that children spray on each other, is not so silly after all, at least not in Los Angeles. The city council voted Tuesday to ban the use of the string-like ...

Washougal: Allison McGranahan's first-grade class raised the most money for the American Heart Association during Gause Elementary School's "Jump Rope for Heart" program. As their prize, students got ...

Know what the latest must-have product is in Japan? While it looks like they’ve gone mad and are shaving their wrists, they’re actually saving the planet by switching off the air-con, and cooling down ...