A 16-year-old Brooklyn student has been charged with allegedly stabbing a classmate in the head with a pair of scissors yesterday. Chevoy Nelson, who has been described by school officials as a special education student who is emotionally disturbed, has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in yesterday's attack at Brooklyn Erasmus High School. Victim Alfredo Allen, 15, underwent extensive surgery, but remains in critical condition. more ›

Alfredo Allen, a 15-year-old student at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, was taken to Kings County Hospital today in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times in the head with a pair of scissors. The attack reportedly began because the victim had stolen the ball from his attacker during a lunchtime pickup basketball game at the Prospect Park South school. more ›

The mugshot of Connecticut resident David Davis, sporting a half-haircut because he allegedly stabbed a man with scissors during his own haircut, caught fire on the Internet yesterday. And guess what—police officers who responded to the scene and saw the partially-shorn suspect were LOLing too! more ›

A Queens mom is suing the Department of Education after her daughter repeatedly came home with her hair cut off. A "class bully" twice cut off the girl's braids, once with a pair of scissors he swiped from the teacher's desk. However, when mom Vicki Brown asked for a safety transfer for her daughter from Astoria's PS 151, she was allegedly denied. So now she's asking for $1 million. And now, that bully will never grow up to be the next winner of Shear Genius. more ›

Earlier this week, a special needs Bronx teenager was left in critical condition after he was attacked outside his school and stabbed in the neck with scissors. Yesterday, two other teens, Allassane Keita, 15, and Tyrone Graves, 16, were arrested for the stabbing of 16-year-old Negro Rivera. "They should spend the rest of their lives in jail. They tried to kill my child," said Rivera's mother, Cassandra, who had turned her son over to foster care the day before the incident. A former teacher at P12/Lewis and Clark School in East Tremont, where the stabbing took place, told us more about the problems with the school, which is designated for students with "Emotional Disturbances": more ›

Yesterday morning, a special needs Bronx teenager was left in critical condition after he was attacked outside his school and stabbed in the neck with scissors. The Daily News and NY Times interviewed some of 16-year-old Negro Rivera's classmates, who labeled him a "troublemaker," and a "bully." But a former teacher at P 12 Lewis and Clark School took umbrage to the media's handling of the story, and wrote us to add more context to the incident: more ›

A special needs Bronx teenager is in critical condition after he was stabbed in the neck today during a confrontation outside of his school. Police say that Negro Rivera, 16, was jumped while walking to PS 12 Lewis and Clark School early this morning, and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center where he underwent hours of surgery. "They stabbed him in the jugular. Why didn't anyone step in? Why didn't anyone help?" his grandmother Barbara Rivera asked. more ›

A disgruntled mail-handler at Kennedy Airport stabbed his supervisor several times utilizing both scissors and moral certitude yesterday afternoon. David Barnett, 55, a 16-year postal working veteran, had a long-standing beef with supervisor Doris Lloyd, 65, even telling one co-worker that day, "If we have problems today, I'm gonna kill her." more ›

The Muslim prison chaplain caught bringing razor blades (“the kind found in barbershops”) and scissors into the downtown jail known as The Tombs walked free yesterday when a grand jury couldn’t decide whether to indict him or dismiss all charges. But he still faces charges including felony counts of promoting prison contraband, and has another court date set for April 27. Whatever the decision, the Correction Department says it will seek to fire Zul-Qarnain Abdu-Shahid, who in the 70s took part in a supermarket robbery that resulted in the death of one shopper. more ›

Today Imam Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid, the Correction Department chaplain and ex-con caught carrying sharp objects (razor blades and a pair of scissors) into a downtown prison, is set to testify in front of a grand jury. Last week the Imam was charged with four counts of first-degree promoting prison contraband. According to his layer, the blades caught by an X-ray machine as the chaplain entered the prison are "the kind found in barbershops." more ›

A Harlem flower shop known for catering to the romantic bliss of its high-profile clientele was the scene of a stabbing yesterday when a man became enraged at facing a former love that had shriveled up. 33-year-old Jimmy Martinez spotted his former lover and her new flame outside Pollen Nation on East 125th Street. Martinez came at the pair wielding scissors and, according to the News, dragged his ex inside, locking the door of the store that provided arrangements for Jay-Z and Beyonce's wedding. Inside the shop, Martinez began beating the woman and said to the florist working, "You're gonna have to die — because you're gonna watch me kill her." Witnesses then saw Martinez bust out of Pollen Nation's back door chasing after the new stamen in her life, where the pair of men hopped over a barbed-wire fence and ran through the back door of a nearby apartment. Police eventually caught up with Martinez and arrested him on assault charges, telling the News, "We just followed the trail of blood." more ›

An assistant principal at P.S. 196 in East Williamsburg was arrested yesterday for slashing her live-in boyfriend with a pair of scissors. Danielle Capuano's boyfriend Alejandro Ruiz was also arrested in the domestic violence incident in East Elmhurst, Queens. Capuano was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Ruiz was charged with assault for hitting Capuano in the head. more ›