LOS ANGELES — Jack Cover, who invented the Taser stun gun now used by thousands of police agencies as a better way to subdue suspects, has died. He was 88. Cover, who had Alzheimer’s disease, died of ...

Police said a fight at the Yellow Rose Nightclub ended with a Taser gun being used on a man. West Carrollton police responded to the club around 2 a.m. Friday for a fight. They said several people ...

A Plantation, Fla., police officer will be sent for additional training after accidentally deploying her Taser on a 10-year-old boy right after telling the child and his brother that the weapon wasn’t ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Deputies with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office are reporting minimal Taser usage in jails — arguing they’ve helped curb violent incidents. But watchdogs aren’t convinced amid ...

Gun-control advocates are concerned that by re-categorizing an entire group of weapons, it gives manufacturers such as Axon a blank check to create new types of weapons that would be exempt from the ...

CHATSWORTH, Ga. -- An 87-year-old grandmother using a knife to cut dandelions in the woods near her rural Georgia home last week was taken down by a police Taser and arrested, according a police ...

Video showing a black man standing up against a wall in the Richmond County (Ga.) Jail with his hands behind his back before deputies used a Taser on him directly contradicts a police report stating ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A retired police sergeant in a New York suburb has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for repeatedly firing a Taser gun at a man suffering a ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - A House bill was proposed in Jackson that would outlaw the use of tasers, and local law enforcement is totally against the idea. “Anytime you take a tool out of an officer’s ...

A German police officer demonstrates a Taser 10. The gun shoots darts at wires, whose electrical impulses can be used to "immobilize" attackers. German police officers are set to be allowed to carry ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A German police officer demonstrates a Taser 10. The gun shoots darts at wires, whose electrical impulses can be used to ...