This has been a good week for gun-toting tourists! Yesterday that Tennessee woman who brought her fully-loaded .22 to the 9/11 Memorial got off easy with a "no-jail, misdemeanor deal" and today the former Marine who brought his loaded weapon to the Empire State Building managed to do the same. This, despite New York's tough anti-gun laws which are supposed to carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 3 1/2 years in prison. Who needs rules? more ›

Remember Honey, the adorable Staffordshire terrier-pitt mix that Brooklyn-based Marine Eduardo Ortiz was trying to find a foster home for while he's temporarily deployed in Afghanistan? We have some good news from Ortiz: not only did he find a family last week to take Honey in, but that family has now started a Tumblr with regular updates on Honey and her new four-legged sister, Pearl. more ›

Cpl. Steve Jorgenson, the 22-year-old Marine accidentally run down on the West Side Highway early Thursday morning, had recently returned from a nine-month tour of Afghanistan and signed on for a six-month course to learn how to detect and dismantle IEDs, according to his family. Reports say that Joregenson was running across the highway so as not to miss his 1 a.m. curfew on his first trip to New York. more ›

Fleet Week got off to a grisly start early Thursday morning when a 22-year-old marine was fatally struck by a car on the West Side Highway—a mere 200 yards from his ship, the USS Iwo Jima. more ›

An NYPD officer and Marine veteran has teamed up with Senator Eric Adams in a fight to get him off desk duty and back on the streets. Officer James Brower, who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been a cop since 2004, but has been on desk duty since 2005 after he told a supervisor that he was experiencing combat flashbacks. He was declared fit for full duty in 2008 by the Medical Board of the Police Pension Fund. "I feel betrayed," Brower told the Daily News. more ›

Relatives of Marines killed in an attack in Lebanon in 1983 want federal authorities to give them a Midtown skyscraper owned by a nonprofit organization accused of being a "front for the Iranian government." According to the Post, families of the 241 soldiers killed in the bombing of military barracks want 650 Fifth Avenue to serve as their compensation for the $2.6 billion in damages awarded to them in court three years ago. Federal prosecutors have tried to revoke ownership of the 36-story tower because the Alavi Foundation, which owns the building, has been accused of sending money to Iran despite a trade ban. more ›

The Queens DA is considering filing charges against a former marine who killed an alleged car thief Saturday night in Queens. Daillard Paris was inside his home around 10 p.m. taking a quick break from shoveling his Nissan Altima out of the snow when cab driver Yaosse Agbokou, 50, allegedly tried to steal the idling vehicle. But wen the car got stuck in the snow, Paris managed to drag Agbokou out and get him into a headlock, eventually strangling him death. Last night neighbors in St. Albans defended Paris. more ›

Art by John Blackford and James Fisher, photo courtesy John Barnes. more ›