SEATTLE — A cowboy sock monkey’s tiny toy pistol was no laughing matter for the Transportation Security Administration. A Redmond, Wash., woman says a TSA agent seized the replica weapon as ...

May, who owns a small business selling sock monkey dolls, said the agent went through the bag of sewing supplies and took issue with Monkburn’s 2-inch toy pistol. “She said ‘this is a gun ...

Sock monkeys, the red-mouthed, yarn-topped toys with a wide smile, were born during the Great Depression and handcrafted for the working class.... Adele Jedynak makes monkey sounds to a group of ...

A woman at a checkpoint at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport said she was “appalled and shocked” after a Transportation Security Administration agent confiscated a tiny toy gun belonging ...