DUXBURY — Vermont State Police arrested a 28-year-old woman Thursday night on a charge of first-degree aggravated domestic assault. Dakota Griswold was taken into custody at approximately 9:17 p.m. on ...

Investigators say that Dakota Griswold, of Duxbury used a ‘handheld stun gun’ during the assault to instill fear and pain into potential victims.

Immigration agents fired a Taser in a public area of Hartford’s federal building to immobilize an Afghan refugee as he walked out of a legal hearing associated with his decade-old asylum ...

Police may also use the handheld tasers. The PowerMax taser carried the largest shock, at 500,000 volts, and it had a high potential of interaction with all the tested heart implants, results show.

Key Takeaways Powerful tasers can interfere with heart implantsTasers with 500,000-volt and 250,000-volt charges caused implants to malfunctionThe effect occurred even in implants placed beneath ...