PLEASANTON — A suspect is being sought in a series of recent residential burglaries, including one where a couple was hit with a gun and another where a teen was pepper-sprayed, police said Friday.

When photographer Xavier Diekman was first pepper sprayed at a protest, the police officer was less than a metre away. "He dosed me from very, very close," Mr Diekman told the ABC. "There was the ...

NEW HAVEN — There's a reason oleoresin capsaicin (OC) spray is used against aggressive grizzly bears. Commonly called pepper spray, the stuff, according to many accounts by those on the receiving end, ...