Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beth Karpas stands for a portrait at her home in Los Altos, Cali, on Friday, July 14, 2023. (Michaela Vatcheva / For The Times) ...

Irelis Baldirio hangs laundered used dolls to dry at the non-profit foundation Hospital de los Peluches, or Hospital of Stuffed Animals, where recycled toys are restored to be donated to vulnerable ...

Viral Keshwala, with Yale New Haven Hospital Toy Closet’s Diane Petra and Viral’s father Lakhanshi Keshwala. Before she died in 2022 at the age of 67, Bhanu Keshwala made a simple request of her son.

PHOENIX — Inside the busy Phoenix Children’s hospital, there’s a conference room full of toys. It’s the North Pole, according to the hospital’s foundation, which they refer to as Toyland. That room is ...

Two Ohio siblings have donated nearly 50,000 toys over the past six years to one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the country through their annual holiday toy drive. This holiday season, Tyler ...

11:28 a.m. Sept. 8, 2023: An earlier version of this article misspelled Beth Karpas’ last name as Karper. Some arrive with the love nearly squeezed out of them. Some have had run-ins with family pets.