A man was arrested Wednesday after he told detectives he had beaten a 19-month-old girl with a Barney doll because she would not stop crying.

Barney, the big, purple dinosaur, has been thrown out by the state Supreme Court. The state’s highest court ruled Monday that a gift of a Barney doll, given to a 4-year- old witness by a pros… ...

Barney’s demise has been especially quick, coming only a year after Hasbro introduced a “talking” Barney doll, at $35, which became the top-selling toy in 1993.