After a Tennessee resident was arrested on felony gun possession charges after checking her 0.38-caliber gun in at the National 9/11 Memorial, NY State politicians are now wondering if our gun laws are maybe a little too much. Medical student Meredith Graves did have a permit to carry the gun in Tennessee, but she didn't have a permit to carry it in New York (because that's what all tourists need in New York—their own guns), so she was in jail for days, including Christmas. And her plight has touched even Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. more ›

Since he got released from prison for literally and metaphorically shooting himself in the foot, new Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress has been quite forthcoming in interviews about his time in prison, and his bruised feelings toward what happened to him. But in an October issue of Men’s Journal, Plax unleashes his angriest tirade against the haters, former friends, and Mayors who let him down and/or pissed him off: "[in jail] they treated me like a f------ axe murderer. 23-hour lockdown, noncontact visiting, and only a Bible to read. Nobody deserves to live like that, man." more ›

Antonio Cromartie, the virile Jets cornerback, has agreed to a four-year deal to return to Gang Green. According to the Post, the Jets will pay him $32 million (that doesn't seem like a hometown discount!), which probably makes up for them trying to get free agent Nnamdi Asomugha (who went to the Eagles) to replace him. more ›

The Jets' grand plans to sign Pro Bowl cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, and create the best one-two cornerback combo in the league, came to a surprising and abrupt conclusion yesterday when Asomugha signed with the Philadelphia Eagles. As if it wasn't bad enough that their divisional rivals just locked up the Super Bowl, the Giants now have to face the prospect of fighting with the Jets over free agent wide receiver Plaxico Burress. more ›

While the Jets are focusing all their energy on signing Pro Bowl cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha, the Giants have been engaged in a flurry of activity today. The team cut longtime linesmen Shaun O'Hara and Rich Seubert (as well as Tiki Barber, who was on the team's reserve/retired list), while running back Brandon Jacobs has agreed to a contract restructuring (for less money), ensuring the team will be able to re-sign fellow running back Ahmad Bradshaw. more ›

A little after 9:00 am this morning, Plaxico Burress, the former star receiver for the New York Giants, was released from prison. Burress had been serving 21 months for criminal possession of a weapon: Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg when his not-registered-in-NY gun discharged in his pants while he was at a Midtown nightclub. He can now spend time with his wife, son and his daughter, who was born while Burress was incarcerated. It's widely believed that Burress still has some playing years left in him, so naturally, speculation about where Burress will play has already begun. more ›

Former Giants star receiver Plaxico Burress has been lifting weights and getting existential in prison ever since he mistakenly shot himself in the thigh at a nightclub in Nov. 2008. But finally, he can see the light at the end of the tunnel: Burress is due to be released from prison three months early, in June. And just in time for the NFL lockout! more ›

An NYPD cop is currently in stable condition in the hospital after accidentally shooting himself in the leg on Saturday. He reportedly shot himself while inside the 67th Precinct house in East Flatbush; the Post reports that he was re-holstering his gun after placing a suspect in a holding cell and the gun discharged. Unfortunately, the only thing we can think of is wide receiver Plaxico Burress and his accidental shooting of himself in the leg at a nightclub. That's one way of being able to compare yourself to a pro football player. Or this officer. more ›

A NYPD detective pulled a Plaxico Burress today, mistakenly shooting herself in the thigh while riding in a van on Riker's Island. According to police spokesmen, the detective and her partner had just delivered a prisoner and were leaving Rikers when the accident occurred. Police say the injury was not serious, and the officer was expected to be released from the hospital today. A spokesmen added, “It’s a police personnel matter.” As embarrassing as the incident might be, it's still not as bad as a cop shooting themselves in the thigh while giving a gun safety lesson. more ›

Onetime Sopranos and Bronx Tale actor and current prison inmate Lillo Brancato Jr. may be locked up, but that doesn't mean the Post's panopticon isn't watching. Today the tabloid brings us a prison update on the latest misadventure of once drug-addled actor (who is behind bars due to his involvement in the death of an off-duty cop). And what is he up to? Oh, you know, just whaling "on a fellow inmate at an upstate prison because the con wouldn't cut short a phone call to his wife." more ›

It's good to know that our plans to relax and watch the Super Bowl tomorrow evening aren't really any different than Plaxico Burress's plans at his upstate prison. According to a Public Information Officer for the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Burress has full TV privileges and will be able to watch the game with other inmates. Par-taaay! He also thinks he's in better shape than when he arrived in prison. Can we join him? Because this whole paying for rent and food racket isn't all it's cracked up to be. [Via TMZ] more ›

The Giants face off against the Indianapolis Colts today, but the only thing former star wide reciever Plaxico Burress will be facing is nine more months in prison. A gaunt Burress gave a long, in-depth interview with Daily News from behind bars, in which he recounts the hardships and dissapointment of prison life. "I didn't do anything to anybody. I did it to myself. I committed a crime. I broke the law. That's why I'm here. I can't do anything about it...If I'm so intent on going back to that moment, then I'm not making any progress. I'm not moving forward," he said. more ›

Last we heard from former Giants wide receiver and anti-leg activist Plaxico Burress, he vowed he would make a comeback in the NFL once he got out of jail. But today he learned that that day wouldn't be arriving anytime in the immediate future. Burress was denied work release for the second time since his two-year prison stint began. Burress had requested a "temporary release" so he could begin playing this season. The state Department of Correctional Services said it was denied because, "the serious and negative impact illegal guns have on the community coupled with dangerous nature of the weapon discharging in a public place renders him unsuitable for work release participation." 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 ›

In a jailhouse interview, former Giants star Plaxico Burress vowed to "play again," and said he still works out about four days a week even though prison is "not like LA Fitness or Bally's." He added: "I do push-ups, sit-ups...I made do." more ›

The Department of Correctional Services has turned down former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress' request to take part in a work release program that would have allowed him to spend some nights at home, according to 1010WINS. Burress — who was sentenced to two-years in prison after shooting himself in the leg in a Manhattan nightclub — asked for the furlough just two months into his sentence. more ›

Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau will stand against former Giant Plaxico Burress' request to take part in a work release program that would allow him to spend several nights a week at home, the Daily News reports. more ›

Just two months into his two-year prison sentence, former Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is eyeing a work furlough that could let him spend anywhere from one to seven nights per week at home, the Post reports. Burress has requested to take part in a work release program that might let him spend time out of jail with his wife and children and negotiate with representatives from new teams in person, "rather than via prison phone calls or visits." more ›

A Manhattan teenager with no criminal record is suing the city for $1 million because cops arrested and taunted him as "Plaxico Burress" after he got shot in a robbery. Christian Dudley doesn't even own a gun, but that didn't matter to the officers who collared him after the Harlem mugging earlier this year. He was arrested in a Washington Heights hospital where he was waiting to get the bullet removed from the back of his knee—instead of surgery, he got dragged to the precinct on a charge of criminal possession of a weapon. And that's where the fun really started. more ›

Two weeks into Plaxico Burress's stay at an upstate prison and word is that Plax is (1) always looking around him, (2) scared of his fellow prisoners, (3) hangs around another fellow high-profile inmate and (4) can't make microwave popcorn, according to the Post reporter who visited him and spoke to others at Oneida Correctional Facility. more ›

Plaxico Burress, former Giants star and accidental self-shooter, is now an Ulster Correctional inmate. His mugshot was released and the Daily News analyzes the now clean-shaven "somber" Burress: "The ex-Giants star was also without his standard bling - two diamond earrings... sporting a white T-shirt beneath a green prison-issued top and appears to stand a little taller than his NFL listed height of 6-foot-5. Burress is staring straight ahead, his face betraying little emotion, in the photo." more ›

If Plaxico Burress fans want an up-to-date jersey of the Super Bowl hero wide receiver, they're going to have to ditch those #17 duds in favor of his new number, 09-R-3260. The former Giant star left court and headed to Ulster Correctional Facility where he was given a shave and a haircut and strip searched out of the jeans he was wearing. Burress neglected to arrive at prison in the notorious sweatpants that sent him there. more ›

Tonight, on ESPN's 7 p.m. E60 program, former Giants star Plaxico Burress talks publicly about his decision to take a plea deal after accidentally shooting himself in the leg with an unregistered gun at a Manhattan nightclub last November. The deal will send him to prison for two years. Burress says that the security at Midtown's Latin Quarter nightclub knew he was carrying a gun but waved in him in anyway, "It wasn't like I was trying to hide it." He also says, "Like I said, I got myself into a situation and, you know, I gotta deal with the consequences for it." more ›

Plaxico Burress is getting ready to for his two-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to gun charges by hiring a consultant to help him maximize his time while under medium-security supervision. His lawyer Benjamin Brafman yesterday told the Post, "We are consulting with an expert in the field who will address and advise us, Mr. Burress and his family, on what to expect while incarcerated, and how to use his period of confinement as productively as possible." Michael Vick recently said he was in "the best shape of my life" after being released from two years behind bars and signing with the Eagles. A Corrections spokeswoman said, "Due to his notoriety, there is a potential that he would be placed in protective custody. And those guys are held in single cells, with the exception of a shower, a visit, a medical visit. You're only out of your cell for eight hours a day." Corrections officials will likely be reminding their guards (and chaplains) to avoid any "Foxy Brown-style" celebrity treatment for Plax. Yesterday on his radio show, Mayor Bloomberg said he was satisfied to hear that the football star will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. more ›

Former Giants star Plaxico Burress has pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in 2nd degree and will server 2 years in prison, in what WCBS 2 says is a deal with the Manhattan DA's office. It sounds like a deal, since he was facing 3 1/2 to 15 years on the three charges he was indicted on—"two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment." more ›

With former Giants star Plaxico Burress indicted on gun charges, his lawyer Benjamin Brafman said, "Although disappointed, we are not surprised, as the facts of this case have not been in dispute since the date of the incident. When you have the mayor and the district attorney both publicly demanding a maximum prison sentence, it was perhaps too much to hope for the grand jury to conduct a sympathetic review of the unique facts of this sad case." more ›