A few years ago, officials of this small town successfully outlawed Silly String and stink bombs. Now there's a new threat to public order _ the spud gun. The City Council is considering banning the ...

A second man was sentenced for his part in a fatal potato gun explosion last June in Champaign County. On Tuesday, Jason Anderson, 22, of Marysville, pleaded guilty to negligent assault. Anderson ...

After the S.C. Department of Corrections spent more than $8.5 million dollars installing golf course-like netting around higher-security prisons, criminals looking to smuggle contraband into state ...

Two people in Canada were arrested for allegedly using a potato gun to launch a bevy of drugs into a jail, a report said. The suspects, a 29-year-old woman and 18-year-old man, were caught by cops on ...

The call came in at 4:47 p.m. Friday. Hooligans - two of them - were spotted at Harding School brandishing what looked like pistols. Someone heard shots.

It has been almost six months since a man was killed in Champaign County when a potato gun exploded. On Tuesday, the victim's brother-in-law pleaded guilty to a felony charge in connection with the ...

UPDATE: The school board approved this settlement agreement in closed session on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in a 4-0 vote, with board member Ken Dauber absent. The Palo Alto school board will consider ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. - Parents claim their daughter suffered permanent eye injuries from a "homemade potato gun" that was accidentally fired, and hit her, in a chemistry class at College Park High School ...

The potato gun was loaded with an apple. But whoever left the device outside Bel Pre Elementary School in Silver Spring over the weekend apparently picked an overly plump apple or misjudged the ...

There are times when men do as they must. Jason knew such times 3,300 years ago when he and his crew launched the Argo to explore the eastern Mediterranean -- then still viewed as a realm of ...

After the S.C. Department of Corrections spent more than $8.5 million dollars installing golf course-like netting around higher-security prisons, criminals looking to smuggle contraband into state ...