Taser safety studies may be biased due to researchers' ties to the electrical stun guns' manufacturer, Taser International Inc., according to cardiologists at the University of California, San Francisco.
A federal lawsuit that accused a southern Illinois sheriff's deputy of zapping three children with a stun gun at an emergency youth shelter and threatening to sodomize one of them has been settled for $750,000, according to court documents.
DURBAN, South Africa  Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to break up a protest by hundreds of stadium staff unhappy at their wages on Monday in the first major unrest of the football World Cup.