The trend started innocuously enough: A few kids popped up in malls, zig-zagging around shoppers quick and nimble as fleas, in pint-size tennis shoes with rollers hidden in the heels. They seemed ...

The Heelys’ wheeled sneakers shot up in popularity, peaking in 2006 before sales dived. This year is called pivotal for the company to dust itself off and get rolling again. Just a few years ago, ...

in Washington in his clunky Heelys -- sneakers with a removable skate wheel in each heel -- then lean back and glide to his locker. settle for walking on them. Heelys, less conspicuous than inline ...

Heelys Inc., the company known for its sneakers on wheels for kids and teens, might soon be rolling over to Manhattan Beach shoe retailer Skechers USA Inc. In an unsolicited offer Wednesday, Skechers ...