BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — When Tim Peters started banging on a neighbor’s door and shouting about religion just before sunrise with a beer bottle in his hand, someone called the county sheriff. Neither the ...

The use of “spit masks” has come under fire last week after a viral video surfaced showing Sacramento Police placing the mesh bag over the head of a 12-year-old boy who allegedly spit on an officer ...

There will no doubt come a time when your child spits more than you'd like (especially when their target is a sibling and not, say, the bathroom sink). But parents of young children may not realize ...

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"Don't Spit! It is indecent. It is dangerous. It is against the law. It Spreads Disease." In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, public admonishments like this one from the Anti-Tuberculosis ...

Shortly before Daniel Prude lost consciousness while police in Rochester, New York, held him down, one of the officers had pulled a white hood from his pocket and slipped it over Prude’s head. The ...