Last spring, a Brooklyn high school teacher was arrested and charged after she made "Columbine-like" threats to bring a gun to the school and "settle some scores." Fort Hamilton High School art teacher Sabrina Milo admitted she made the statements, but claimed she was just venting. All charges were dropped against her, but eight months later, the city has continued to look for ways to fire her—and now, Milo has decided to resign. more ›

Ever since Fort Hamilton High School art teacher Sabrina Milo made "Columbine-like" threats to bring a machine gun to her Brooklyn school and "settle some scores," her week has completely gone to shit. After she was arrested, everyone and their mother lawyer has given their opinion on whether her threats were just venting, or something to take seriously. But finally, Milo herself has spoken about the incident: "It didn't even occur to me that the foolish statement I made would be perceived as a terrorist threat," she told ABC. more ›

Ever since Fort Hamilton High School teacher Sabrina Milo was arrested for allegedly making "Columbine-like" threats, her students have rallied behind her, claiming that she was a kind and caring teacher who must have been joking. And on Friday, many of her students will stage a walk out in protest of her arrest. “There are so many teachers in this school who say things like this and they don’t get arrested,” senior Omar Elsayed told Brooklyn Paper. “It’s understandable, teaching is stressful. But if it wasn’t for Ms. Milo, I wouldn’t be graduating high school, so I owe her a lot." And some other teachers are beginning to question her arrest. more ›

Teacher Sabrina Milo, who was arrested after threatening to bring a machine gun to her Brooklyn high school and "settle some scores," was released from Rikers on $100,000 bail yesterday and returned to her home on Staten Island. A few neighbors seem worried to have her around; one man who lives across the street said, "I think she should be locked up." However, Milo's lawyer insists it was all a big misunderstanding: "No reasonable person who knows Ms. Milo would have believed that she meant her alleged comments as anything but an exaggerated personal venting," he told the Staten Island Advance. Maybe, but shouldn't a teacher know better than to joke about that kind of stuff in school? more ›

Sabrina Milo, the Brooklyn teacher arrested for allegedly making "Columbine-like" threats at Fort Hamilton High School, is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail, and faces up to five years in prison if convicted of making terrorist threats. However, lawyer Andrew Stoll says she is no threat to anyone. "She needs to be medicated," he told the court yesterday. more ›

A Brooklyn art teacher, who had been sent to the rubber room last May for hitting a student on the hand with a ruler, was arrested yesterday for allegedly threatening to come to school with a machine gun under a trench coat, saying "it would be Columbine all over again." Sabrina Milo was arrested at Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge yesterday on charges of making terrorist threats, like saying she needed to "settle some scores" and "do what needs doing" with the help of a shotgun. However, she told one teacher not to worry because she liked them. How thoughtful! more ›

The 18-year-old accused of plotting to kill high school classmates and faculty at Connetquot High School is sad that he's being given a bad rap. Christopher Franko spoke to Newsday (subscripted required) from a Suffolk County jail, "I'm a very loving person. But nobody wants to view me as that. Everybody wants to view me as the mad bomber." more ›

Two Long Island teenagers were busted last week for planning to bomb their school and shoot students and faculty. Christopher Franko, 17, and Dana Saltzman, 16, were arrested after Franko's social worker alerted cops that he may have been plotting an attack on Connetquot High School, which Franko had also planned but failed to attack on April 20, 2007—the eighth anniversary of the Columbine shootings. They were apparently waiting for Franko to turn 18 so they could buy guns, and then open fire near the language arts classrooms, because "the largest concentration of students are in [that] area," Dep. Insp. Michael Shanahan told Newsday (subscription required). more ›

Yesterday, classes at Bridgewater Raritan High School were cancelled due to a bomb threat—and a 16-year-old junior had been charged with "attempted murder, possession of explosives, possession of a destructive device and attempted widespread damage or injury." The Star-Ledger reports, "The teen was arrested after another student told a school police resource officer the suspect had told him of his plan 'to commit a Columbine at the high school on December 14.'" While no explosives were found at the school, "when police searched the teen’s home, they discovered homemade explosive devices, shotgun shells, bullets, black powder, as well as items that could act as explosive device components and bomb-making instructions." more ›

A 15-year-old teen in Monroe, NY (in Orange County, about 60 miles away) was arrested for "allegedly plotting to carry out a Columbine-style attack at Monroe Woodbury High School" on the anniversary of Columbine next year. MyFoxNY reports the teen said he was bullied and had "a lot of hatred" for his classmates. Also: "Officers searched the teen's home Monday night and found four 16-ounce bottles of gasoline, items that could be used as fuses, a torch, a machete, a black trench coat, three propane tanks, two computers and several other electronic devices, authorities said." The teen was committed to a psychiatric facility. more ›

On Tuesday evening, Suffolk County police were called to a home in North Babylon because an explosion occurred in the basement. A 17-year-old was injured and, after hours on the scene, police later said that an "improvised explosive device" had been set off. Now, as cops continue to investigate the incident, it's reported that the North Babylon High School student had photographs of the Columbine massacre and killers on his bedroom door. more ›