Police agencies’ cache of less-lethal weapons includes Tasers, tear gas canisters and beanbag shotguns. Then there are 40 mm launchers. Escondido police used 40 mm launchers a week ago when two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of California police officers face pro-Palestinian protesters outside Dodd Hall at UCLA on June 10. (Etienne Laurent / ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK -- The Police Department has begun its long and expensive road to equip every officer with a nonlethal sponge launcher, but officials say the effort is worth the time and expense.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected in regard to “sponge rounds,” and has deleted reference to “beanbag round,” which Police Chief Brian Smith said Thursday the department does not use. Also ...

Alexander Lance was standing near the intersection of North Presa and College streets downtown when he shouted at armed police officers from the sidewalk. San Antonio police were clearing the streets ...

UCLA police, who were called on to handle some of the nation’s largest campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war last spring, are asking for approval to double their stockpile of pepper balls and ...