A 52-year-old Jersey City man has been accused of stabbing his 23-year-old girlfriend and baby mama in the face with a key while driving. Juan T. Irizarry has been charged with aggravated assault and two weapons offenses, for allegedly stabbing the girlfriend while their kids were in the car yesterday afternoon. more ›

David Davis, 20, of New Haven has been arrested for slashing another man in the back with a pair of scissors. Unfortunately, this happened to be while Davis himself was mid-haircut, and he didn't have time to get it finished before he was arrested and charged with first-degree assault. more ›

Besides the fact that they are obviously having a shittier time of it than you are, you may want to be nice to panhandlers for reasons beyond altruism. Like if you don't want lose an eye. Because an encounter can go from asking for change to that a lot quicker than you would think. more ›

Two teenagers were rushed to the hospital with severe slash wounds after a brawl near South Beach in Staten Island on Monday. Police have yet to make any arrests, but believe the melee could have been a hate crime, which seem to be on the rise in the borough. more ›

A Queens man who admitted to stabbing his wife upwards of 250 times wants to make sure people don't get the wrong impression of him: he's no Hannibal Lecter. Mohammad Solaiman, 52, was sentenced to 15-years-to-life yesterday for the murder of his wife Shahida Sultanna, who he stabbed more than 250 times in their home in Jamaica, Queens in December 2007. more ›

A man stabbed in Brooklyn yesterday ran over a block with the blade still in his back, but unfortunately collapsed and bled to death. Witnesses told the Daily News that the victim, 23-year-old Maurice Burrus, was walking down the street in East New York with his girlfriend when a group of young men ambushed him. Close to her apartment, his girlfriend allegedly ran home to get a knife. But upon returning, another man wrestled the knife from her grip and stabbed Burrus in the back. more ›

Police suspect the Queens man who slashed his pregnant wife may have jumped into the East River from the Whitestone Bridge. His wife (and victim) Patrona Kates, who suffered wounds to her throat and head, told the Daily News, "If [the police] find him, I hope they kill him." Fitzgerald Jolly—enraged by the announcement she was going to have a baby and her refusal to get an abortion—also stabbed Kates's twin sister, who tried to protect her. more ›

Couples therapist Joyce Poster-Lederman has been barred from her Upper West Side apartment since September 29th, when she allegedly slashed her 79-year-old husband with two kitchen knives. But yesterday her lawyers convinced Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Anthony Ferrara to let her pack her knives and go home—despite the judge's initial reluctance. Defense lawyer Aaron Wallenstein insisted to Judge Ferrara that husband Selwyn Lederman, also a psychologist, wants her back. But the judge got the courtroom in stiches with his commentary. more ›

Details are scant on a stabbing at a Brooklyn senior center Sunday, but it merits mention as a cautionary tale for those who would confront line-cutters. According to the Post, 55-year-old Leroy Skette Sr. was displeased when 37-year-old Byron Bells cut the line at a fundraiser buffet at the Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council. But when Skette called him out, the cutter got stabby, throwing a cranberry-vodka drink in his elder's face, then allegedly slashing him with a knife. Skette needed 84 stitches on his face and neck! He tells the tabloid, "I thought he hit me. But I felt my hand, and there was blood." Other than that, the only other salient detail he remembers is "using the word 'manners.'" It's unclear whether Bells is still at large, so today might be a good day to just let civilization decline a little further. more ›

The morning after George Atterbury, general manager of Grayz restaurant on West 54th Street, was interviewed by Eater about his experiences greeting swells at Grayz, he was slashed in the face and stabbed in the abdomen by three men on the East Side. A dining blog curse, or just a random act of violence? Police are now suggesting another possible explanation: mob ties. more ›