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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The parents of a Palo Alto Unified School District student who faces long-term eye damage from an injury sustained during a potato-gun experiment at JLS Middle School have filed a lawsuit seeking ...

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 ...

A Woodlands teenager earned a trip to jail after he was found with a homemade "potato" gun. The makeshift guns, which are traditionally made with plastic piping and are also called combustion ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Federal authorities have accused a man from Baltimore of selling guns to an undercover federal agent out of his Utz Potato Chips stall at Lexington Market. Between September 2007 and last month, ...

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 ...