A rural Northern California police department wanted a versatile tool to take down suspects while limiting injuries to officers and the people they detained. It chose nunchucks. Police officers in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sgt. Casey Day was skeptical. The chief of his rural Northern California police department wanted him to find out if an ancient martial arts weapon made famous in 1970s Bruce Lee ...

A federal judge knocked down a New York state law banning nunchucks that dated to the 1970s, when martial arts star Bruce Lee popularized them in his movies by whipping around the twin sticks linked ...