If you're going to carry an 18-inch machete, obviously you want to hid it in your pants! But police officers in NJ weren't amused by it, and arrested a 27-year-old North Bergen man after a pat-down search on Saturday. more ›

Yesterday morning just before 4:30 a.m., a fire broke out in a brownstone on Putnam Aveue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Nine civilians, plus four firefighters (including one whose face was burned), were injured and fire officials say the fire was "suspicious." more ›

Initial tests performed on the suspicious white powder that was discovered in a Lower Manhattan office building indicate that the substance is not hazardous. The Times reports that a total of nine employees of a regional Social Security Office located at 26 Federal Plaza—a building that houses offices for the FBI, the EPA, and other agencies—were given showers and had their clothes bagged after coming into contact with the powder. The substance was found in an envelope, which only one of the individuals handled, according to the paper. more ›

Hazmat teams descended on two United Nations missions and a consulate in midtown Manhattan last evening, after they received envelopes containing an unknown white powder. Decontamination tents were set up outside the French Mission at 245 East 47th, the Austrian Mission at 600 Third Avenue, and Uzbekistan Consulate at 801 Second AVenue. more ›

But it was a false alarm! According to Reuters, a crew on a United flight from Los Angeles to JFK Airport (with Cairo as the final destination) was suspicious of two Middle Eastern men because "one of the men got up to use the plane's restroom just before take-off, ignoring orders from the flight crew to remain in his seat." more ›

The prolonged questioning of Bollywood star Shah Rukh (or Shahrukh) Khan at Newark Airport on Friday has ignited a debate over whether authorities overreacted. Even an Indian cabinet minister questioned the long time the Muslim star was held—P Chidambaram said the U.S. had "overdone it," pointing out, Had it been for ten minutes or even twenty minutes (of detention for questioning), one can understand it. But one fails to understand how could they hold him for two long hours?... It takes maximum of ten minutes, say twenty minutes, even if you have to frisk a person after stripping him." more ›

Fire officials believe that an early Saturday morning fire that gutted a Staten Island home, killing two brothers, was suspicious: The Staten Island Advance reports, according to police and fire officials on the scene, "An accelerant appeared to have been used on the wood building's front porch." The blaze grew to five alarms and damaged other homes on Jewett Avenue. The Advance has a slideshow of the devastation. more ›

A man breaking into a van called the police when he noticed strange materials inside--the Post reports the van was "filled with gas cans and Styrofoam cups containing a mysterious white substance with protruding wires and switches." The van had been parked on Sunset Park, Brooklyn block for a month, and the would-be robber drove the van to a desolate location and then "called a cop he knows from his run-ins with the law." The NYPD anti-terror task force examined the car and a source says cops probably won't charge him with robbery more ›

Me: Hausman Street always goes all-out with their Christmas decorations, I just got done taking pictures of them. Pretty days like today are going to become few and far between soon and I wanted to enjoy them while I can. more ›