Portland Police are using their Tasers almost twice 26 percent more against people with mental illness as they were in 2006 according to a new report. A use of force report released by the city in ...

A large police presence is outside Albany Medical Center.Albany Police had limited information about a reported standoff.

A new report issued by Amnesty International is recommending that Police Departments around the country either stop using Tasers, or limit their use to situations where guns would otherwise be used.

Fairfield police say they were forced to use a Taser on an 80-year-old dementia patient. Police were called around 4:30 p.m. Saturday to a report of a man with Alzheimer’s disease who was trying to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still image from the body-worn camera of Hartford police Officer Joseph Magnano seconds before he gravely wounded a man who ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- A suspect has been taken into custody on the Texas Southern University campus after being shocked by a Taser. Houston police say the pursuit began as a foot chase in the 3700 block ...

In Albany, also in 2015, local police adopted new rules for Taser use restricting officers from using stun guns on the elderly, pregnant women and people who are handcuffed after Donald "Dontay" Ivy, ...

SARANAC LAKE – Village police used a taser on a local man after he allegedly refused to come out from his hiding spot when they came looking for him on a probation check this past weekend. The ...

A 58-year-old shoplifter ran from police Saturday afternoon, hopping several fences before he was hit with a Taser. Police were already inside the store talking to witnesses of a car accident around 1 ...

A Circuit Court jury convicted a Waynesboro police officer of felony assault and battery for using a taser on another officer ...