WASHINGTON (AP) — A few miles off in any direction, and the debate about the knife involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest by Baltimore police may have been completely different. The state of Maryland has ...

A challenge to New York City's enforcement of the laws banning gravity knives has been revived by the Second Circuit, which found that two individuals and a business that were prosecuted have standing ...

A New York appeals court heard oral arguments on January 14 in a challenge to a controversial knife law that has landed tens of thousands of suspects in jail over the past ten years. New York’s ...

A half-century old statute meant to criminalize large knives has unjustly prosecuted more than 60,000 New Yorkers over the past decade for being in possession of a simple work knife, 86 percent of ...

LONDON — Actor Idris Elba on Monday urged the British government to ban machetes and serrated “zombie” knives to help stop young people falling victim to knife crime. The London-born star of “The Wire ...