A Connecticut man was arrested yesterday after "selling undercover officers eight crude pipe bombs from his white Subaru, parked at a Co-Op City shopping center." Nicholas Lihnier, a 37-year-old Connecticut resident, reportedly had filled cardboard tubes with "potassium perchlorate and aluminum with attached pyrotechnic fuses." Authorities believe the makeshift bombs could have caused serious injury. more ›

It was good mildly uncomfortable while it lasted, but synthetic marijuana knock-off "K2" is facing permanent banishment. Using its "emergency powers" yesterday, the FDA banned the sale of five chemicals which are used to make K2, Spice, and other such herbal products. First bath salts, then Jane Russell, and now K2? What will 2011 take away from us next? more ›

About 80 students at PS 20 in Flushing were became ill after allegedly drinking out of the school's water fountains. A few children began complaining of stomach aches around 1:30 p.m. today, and students told NY1 that those who drank out of the water fountains began "throwing up and falling down." Now the DOE says the fountains appeared to be contaminated with air conditioning chemicals. more ›

Summertime is around the corner, and many of the city's vegetarians are gearing up for their rooftop BBQs with their soy burgers and tofu dogs, resting peacefully with the fact that no animals had to die so they could eat. But were other humans harmed in awful factory conditions that exposed them to deadly chemicals? Probably. more ›

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A man breaking into a van called the police when he noticed strange materials inside--the Post reports the van was "filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches." The van had been parked on Sunset Park, Brooklyn block for a month, and the would-be robber drove the van to a desolate location and then "called a cop he knows from his run-ins with the law." The NYPD anti-terror task force examined the car and a source says cops probably won't charge him with robbery more ›