Like many others, my adolescence was demarcated by a series of important milestones that indicated the excitement of growing older: playground crushes, after-school trips downtown with friends, ...

There's a push in New York to ease the state's pepper spray laws to allow people to buy it in more stores and online. State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, a Democrat from Staten Island, introduced a ...

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