While the Susan G. Komen Foundation remains on the defensive about defunding breast cancer prevention-related grants to Planned Parenthood, its marketing juggernaut remains unabated. For instance, what says ending breast cancer forever like a .22-caliber pink handgun? more ›

Talk about a school trip you won't forget! Yesterday a park ranger in Prospect Park had to cut short an educational tour for kids to go and apprehend a 52-year-old man who had been seen allegedly masturbating in the park. Good thing, too. When the ranger caught up with the man, 53-year-old Glen Perouza, not only did he find drugs on him—cops say they also found a fully loaded 9mm handgun on him. more ›

A Jersey City man fishing at Exchange Place managed to snag a handgun covered in duct tape and barnacles while fishing off Grundy Pier earlier this week. For some reason the 71-year-old carried the .32 caliber handgun to the nearby Hyatt Hotel, where he was told to drop the weapon, complied, and then went back to fishing. Police are currently investigating if the gun is connected to any crimes. We're sure it was just a perfectly fine, unused gun someone happened to throw in the river. more ›

A Georgia man wound up missing his flight home last week after admitting to a luggage handler that he had a .357-caliber handgun stashed in his bag. Authorities also found 15 rounds of hollow-point ammunition in a locked gun box. However, the TSA says guns are permitted in checked luggage, as long as they are "unloaded, packed in a locked hard-sided container, and declared to the airline at check-in," which it seems was everything this man did. It's unclear if he was detained or if the airport authorities were just slow to check his baggage, but, to quote the Post, the whole situation seemed "just plane dumb." more ›

A candidate for Governor of West Virginia has threatened to make Mayor Bloomberg's out-of-state gun busts illegal. State Sen. Jeffrey Kessler says Bloomberg has gotten too involved in West Virginia politics, so he wants to pass a bill that would ban the Mayor from using private investigators to catch Mountain State gun dealers who violate federal laws by selling firearms to unqualified buyers. more ›

Former Giants star Plaxico Burress swears he will return to the NFL after he is released from prison, and insists "it will be like I never left." During his first interview since being sentenced to two years in prison for shooting himself in the leg with an unlicensed handgun, the wide receiver stated: "Being in here I have time to think about how I want to be seen when I get out. I want to be better." more ›

An 8-year-old was arrested yesterday after he tried to show a classmate a loaded gun he carried into a Long Island school. A third-grade teacher overheard the student bragging about the weapon and confiscated a semiautomatic handgun from the adolescent's desk, according to cops. more ›

Stephon Marbury must be smiling to know that in one of his likely final days as a Knick, he gets the day off from being the bullseye of the New York media's lambasting. That's because the details that have spilled out surrounding Plaxico Burress's accidental shooting of himself are nothing but embarrassing and incriminating for the Giants star wide receiver. Once police can obtain a warrant from the DA's office, they are likely to arrest Burress on felony weapons charges since the only permit Burress had expired in May and that permit was from Florida thus making it invalid in New York and New Jersey. more ›

Today's Post has a list of some of the more notable New Yorkers who have permits allowing them to own a handgun. The group includes figures that could make for some incredible duels such as: Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel, Donald Trump and Ron Lauder, David Wright and Carlos Delgado and Howard Stern and Don Imus. But then the article takes an unusual turn when the Post talks to Alexis Stewart, radio personality and daughter of Martha, as to why she obtained a permit. "After 9/11, I had two very old English bulldogs...I could never leave my dogs to die of thirst in my I apartment, so I looked on it as a euthanasia situation...I would never kill my pets unless they were going to die anyway." more ›

Last weekend, a young woman was celebrating her 19th birthday when two men crashed her party and later raped her. The police arrested one of the suspects yesterday and are still looking for the second. more ›

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and veggies in South Central. On the entertainment front, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the show titled Californication and Rami Kashou of Project Runway chatted with LAist about his Palestinian heritage and, of course, designing beauty. more ›

A Brooklyn couple walking in Central Park was mugged at gunpoint last night. The police say that the couple was in a gazebo near West 74th Street on the west side when they were robbed. more ›

Jermaine Jordan is the 26-year-old ice-cream man/alleged drug dealer who is now under arrest. Neighborhood parents were concerned that he was possibly selling drugs near a playground where hundreds of area children were spending time during summer vacation. I.S. 8 in Jamaica was hosting a day care summer camp across the street from the Mr. Softee truck. more ›

It looks like the story that was originally reported as a man shooting robbers in front of his home, has changed significantly since yesterday. Lulzim Kupi, who shot two men, killing one, is now charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Kupi, 42, still suggests that he shot Gentian Kasa, 31, and Redinel Dervishaj, 32, in self defense, but not because they were robbing him. Instead Kupi claims that the two men demanded $20,000 and threatened his family if Kupi didn't come up with the cash. more ›

Rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne both found themselves ending their weekend with arrests last night. The separate incidents both took place in the city. more ›

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities. more ›

Hundreds of police officers headed to Brooklyn's criminal court for the arraignment of Dexter Bostic and Robert Ellis, suspected of shooting two Brooklyn police officers who had pulled over their stolen SUV during an early Monday morning traffic stop. Bostic and Ellis, who had been extradited from Pennsylvania on Thursday, were held without bail. Neither man spoke during the arraignment, which formally charged them each with "two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault on a police officer, hindering prosecution, three counts of criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence." Bostic was charged with violating his parole as well. more ›

Queens DA Richard Brown revealed that two men had plotted to kill a police officer. Andrew Spencer, held in Rikers on gun possession charges, asked his friend, ex-con Kiyee Kye, for help in shooting the cop, who had arrested Spencer last summer and was scheduled to testify against him. more ›

A man who allegedly pointed a loaded pistol at police was shot in the legs last night in Queens. A sergeant and two officers began following a man after he was seen acting suspiciously near the Queens Center Mall, according to the Times. The plainclothes cops gave chase in an unmarked car when the the suspect began to run. The chase continued on foot until the suspect ran into a parking garage on Junction Blvd at 59th Avenue. more ›

Yesterday, the police arrested four people while trying to locate the "fourth man" allegedly at the scene of a fatal police shooting. Marijuana and a loaded gun unconnected to the shooting were seized as well. more ›

Considering Bloomberg's recent "war" on handguns and handgun dealers we really enjoyed this photo when it popped up on Contribute. Though there are so many things that could go in those elipses... more ›

Tensions are on edge in Harlem, after police fatally shot an 18 year old yesterday morning. While the police say Mingo Kenneth Mason was armed and ran when they approached him, residents in the housing project police chased Mason say that the police "regularly harrass" tenants and "needlessly hand out trespassing tickets" as Newsday reports. What is known is that a resident called the police to complain about a man showing a gun to three others at the East River Houses. From Newsday:

Two police officers assigned to the East Houses area responded to the scene moments later, police said. When they approached, the group began to disperse, with Mason pushing his way past the officers, knocking one of them to the ground, police said. more ›

Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg continued to strengthen his strict stance against guns and announced new legislation:

The legislation includes: the Gun Offender Registration Act for individuals convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; a one handgun every-three-month purchase limit; an Inventory bill, which would require city gun dealers to physically examine their inventories twice a year; and a ban on gun coloration kits used to disguise real guns in 'toy-like' colors.

Not only did the police arrest DJ Star and charge him with aggravated harrassment and endangering the welfare of a minor, they managed to get him to Police Headquarters by asking him to surrender his 9mm handgun. And when he arrived - he was taken to the First Precinct to be arrested. Wow - that's a switcheroo, though it seemed sort of pre-ordained, given how much attention has been put on the former Power 105FM DJ after he threatened to molest the 4 year old child of another rival DJ. DJ Star told reporters, "You're looking at the new Lenny Bruce." He was released on $2,000 bail, and his lawyer Ben Brafman continued to claim it was simply a matter of radio station rivalries gone amok. more ›

Hoorah! The union representing doormen, porters, and other apartment building workers came to a and building owners' management have struck a tentative deal late last night, keeping the workers on the job today. (When we checked to see what happened at midnight, they announced there was an agreement, but there would be a press conference around 2 or 3AM!) Workers will get raises of 8.5% over four years (but they won't kick in until the second half of the first year), and their health and pensions will remain unchanged (though there is a cap on medical costs during the last 2 years). Also, this contract would be for four, instead of three years, which makes both sides happy (though the union had wanted a five year contract): Union president Mike Fishman said, "We've achieved what we wanted to achieve. We've made compromises, but we think it's a good agreement for all of us," which the Realty Advisory Board's James Berg said, "I think this agreement will serve both the employers and the employees and provide us with four years of stability." more ›

New York lost another of it's Finest early this morning. Daniel Enchautegui, 28, a three-year veteran, was shot in the chest outside of his Bronx home while attempting to prevent a robbery in progress. more ›

Police have shot and killed a man at a London tube station. According to reports, a South Asian man was being chased by police officers. One witness told BBC News, "One of [the police officers] was carrying a black handgun - it looked like an automatic - they pushed him to the floor, bundled on top of him and unloaded five shots into him." The shooting occured at the Stockwell station in South London. The media speculates that the man had a connection to yesterday's would-be bombers. As underground travel is still disrupted in London, there are many theories about yesterday's bombings (copycats? the B team?) but investigations are still ongoing. This is wild news as NYC tries to get to work with more police in our subways. more ›