San Diego County supervisors voted Tuesday to explore phasing out pepper spray in local juvenile detention facilities, citing concerns that probation officers use the chemical agent instead of trying ...

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Vice Chair Monica Montgomery Steppe is asking her colleagues to support a proposal that could phase out the use of pepper spray in local juvenile detention ...

Victims of two recent street crimes in New Haven reported being sprayed with the irritant before being robbed, police say.

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. (KFVS) - Police in Caruthersville said they had to use pepper spray to break up a large, unruly crowd late Saturday night, July 5. Officers were called around 11:38 p.m. to the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio State University Police Department cleared the officer who used pepper spray during the Ohio State-Michigan brawl last November of any wrongdoing. After Ohio State's loss to ...

The driver, who admitted to using the pepper spray, said they had been aiming for a spider with the substance, and not the customer’s order.

ST. LOUIS (KSDK) – Football players from a Missouri high school were pepper sprayed by police at the end of a game against a school in Ohio. Video captured police in Massillon, Ohio, using pepper ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents used pepper spray to push through an angry crowd that blocked their vehicles as they checked identifications in a heavily Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis on ...