Last fall, there was uproar when a 15-year-old Croatian model walked the runway during Fashion Week, prompting the Council of Fashion Designers of America to ask its members to essentially card models to confirm that they are at least 16 years old. CFDA president Diane von Furstenberg even said, "Top modeling agencies—including DNA, Elite, Ford, IMG, Marilyn, New York Models, Next, One, Supreme, Trump, Wilhelmina, Women and Women Direct - have again pledged that they will not send out models under the age of 16 for shows." But now it turns out that Ford never promised it, so that's why they have two models under 16 participating in Fashion Week. more ›

A 15-year-old girl jumped into the Hudson River near the USS Intrepid in Hell's Kitchen on Sunday and was quickly rescued by an unidentified man who leaped in after her—proof, once again, that Good Samaritans do exist in this city. more ›

The Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City is facing some serious fines this week after a 14-year-old boy was caught playing the slots, right under the not-so-watchful eye of the casino's security guards. more ›

If your arm was nearly chopped in off in a fatal car crash over the summer, then painstakingly reattached through several surgeries, the first thing you'd do when you got out of the hospital is rob your local Little League office with your homeless BFF, right? Totally! more ›

Anderson Cooper is at the center of a tragedy this week, after Gawker reported that one of the guests scheduled for an upcoming episode of his show fell into a coma following a skateboarding accident—that one of Cooper's producers told him to film. more ›

A 17-year-old Rockland County student was mauled by a female grizzly bear (no, not that kind) while in the deep backwoods of Alaska yesterday, leaving him in the ICU along with another teenager who was attacked. more ›

A teenage girl was arrested for engaging in the time-honored tradition of attempting to ditch out on her cab fare and secretly stashing a bottle of booze in her purse. And this was no crosstown ride—think more like across state lines. more ›

A "mildly autistic" Staten Island teen says that he was body slammed by an assistant dean at his school, leaving his left leg broken in several places. Brian Shane said he got into a fight with two other boys during gym class earlier this week at South Richmond High School when assistant dean James McKeon intervened. His parents said that the dean "grabbed Brian around the chest and wrapped his leg around Brian’s leg. They both flew backward in what my son said was like an Ultimate Wrestling move." We suppose this is one way to guarantee a spot on the dean's list. more ›

Florida native Peter Wolfman was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breathalyzer test after pulling a U-turn and pinning 17-year-old Emily Sexton against a wall on City Island yesterday. Sexton and a few friends were standing at a bus stop on City Island Avenue when Wolfman turned around and headed for them. 15-year-old Blake Cottam, who was standing with the group, told ABC 7, "He went to go make a U-turn, didn't complete the turn and went straight at us, he went faster and faster. I thought he was going to joking with us, three kids, speed up and then slow down. I moved back just in case and then he didn't stop and I know it would be bad from there." more ›

Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy in connection with an attack against a 15-year-old Mexican boy. The attack reportedly happened on Wednesday night near North Burgher Avenue and Doe Place. Officials say the victim was approached by a group of black men, and 17-year-old Yashua Plair pulled out a knife as the victim attempted to walk away. The group stole his iPod while yelling anti-Mexican slurs. more ›

The 16-year-old boy fatally shot while sitting on his father's stoop in the Bronx on Saturday night had been told the stay inside by his father, who was reportedly at North Central Bronx Hospital with an unspecified health problem. But Tashawn Bromfield of Meriden, CT went to 7-Eleven with a friend, and sat on the stoop drinking a Slurpee. Police still believe he wasn't the intended target of the drive by shooting, and that the shooting was part of a gang initiation. One witness told WCBS it was an "unfortunate incident. The young man was just in the wrong place at the wrong time." more ›

A teenage boy from Connecticut visiting his dad in the Bronx was killed early this morning in a drive-by shooting, and police believe it was a case of mistaken identity. Tashawn Bromfield was sitting on his dad's stoop in Eastchester Heights around 12:40 a.m. with a friend and drinking a Slurpee when shots rang from a four-door sedan driving by. Bromfield was hit in the chest. His father's girlfriend told the Daily News, "He was on the ground bleeding everywhere. I was in bed when I heard the shots and then I hear his friend screaming 'Tashawn's been shot!' We ran, out but it was too late." more ›

A 14-year-old boy was shot twice in the chest with a rifle yesterday while visiting his grandmother in Harlem. Tyreek Manguel suffered at least one broken rib when he was shot on 147th Street and 7th Avenue yesterday afternoon, and police say the violence stemmed from an earlier dispute that involved a mugging of the victim's mother and brother. One neighbor said, "It's been going on for the last two or three weeks." Manguel is at Harlem Hospital, where he is in serious but stable condition. more ›

We know it's "America's Playground" and all, but parents might want to make sure their kids aren't out too late near Coney Island. A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg on West 33rd Street near Neptune Avenue at 1:34 a.m. today. He said he heard gunfire and realized he had been shot in the leg, though it's unclear if he was the intended target. He was released after being treated at Lutheran Hospital. Last week, a two-year-old girl was shot in the leg outside her Coney Island housing complex when she got caught in the crossfire of a revenge dispute. more ›

Yesterday saw multiple shootings in Brooklyn, ending in three deaths and other injuries. 15-year-old Tyquan Jamison was one of the victims, shot at 3:30 a.m. on Monday on Glenmore Avenue with a bullet cops say was intended for his friend. Jamison was a junior varsity basketball player, and his coach told the Daily News, "I always tell the kids, you have to be a student-athlete. Being out at 3:30 in the morning, you're not being an athlete." more ›

A city Correction Officer's 15-year-old son may be facing charges after shooting his friend in the abdomen. The teenager had allegedly been playing video games with his friends in his home in Flatlands when he was able to crack the safe containing his mom's 9-mm. pistol. While showing off the gun to his friends, he pulled the trigger and his his 20-year-old friend in the stomach. It's unclear if the shooting was an accident. more ›

A disabled teenager wielding a 6-inch knife was shot in the abdomen by police officers last night. Stanley Cherenfant, 19, who has trouble with his right arm because of a childhood stroke, got into a fight with his cousin over a craps game in East Flatbush late last night. Once Cherenfant left to get a weapon, his cousin called 911, claiming Cherenfant was threatening him with a gun. Cops say they identified themselves to Cherenfant and attempted to stop him with pepper spray, but he continued walking towards them and refused to drop the knife. Once he was about six feet from the cops, an officer shot him in the lower abdomen. more ›

A 13-year-old girl was sexually assaulted yesterday while walking home from school in Queens last Wednesday. She was grabbed by a man near 122nd Avenue in Saint Albans and taken into a yard, where he sexually assaulted her. The suspect was described as a black man, 40-45 years old, 6'3", and 220 lbs with black dreadlocks. Recently, just one neighborhood over, a 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a school locker room. The four boys charged for the assault were her classmates. more ›

Possibly practicing for having to "Shoot to Wound," a police officer shot a Harlem teen in the arm yesterday after the teen reportedly opened fire on the cop. Shawn Lambert, 17, was apparently visibly armed at 1:30 a.m. yesterday, and began shooting at the cop, who in return fired off five rounds. Lambert ran away after being shot in the arm, but cops followed the blood trail back to his apartment. The teen is currently recovering in Harlem Hospital. more ›

Teenager Shytik Bowman was charged with third-degree possession of a weapon after cops found a sawed-off .22 caliber single-action rifle and a silencer in his backpack yesterday. Cops approached the 16-year-old in the bathroom of Legacy High School yesterday morning, suspecting there may have been a drug deal taking place. One source told the Daily News, "[The agents] saw a couple of students acting shady near a bathroom. They confiscated his book bag, but the kid ran away." more ›

Engine Co. 255 firefighter Kendrick Bass has been arrested after allegedly attempting to sign a 14-year-old girl out of school to have sex with her. Bass met the young lady over a phone dating service, and showed up at her school in uniform on January 15th. There, he told the secretary that he was her uncle, but the secretary called the girl's grandmother, who said he was lying. Bass was arrested on Monday for endangering the welfare of a child, and has been suspended without pay. Which is all well and good, but can somebody please tell us what that girl was doing on a phone dating service? more ›

On Staten Island a young man was allegedly caught with homemade bombs under his winter coat, and officials want him and all the other bomb hobbyists out there to know that's not OK. "I made it," John McCloskey told cops, according to the Staten Island Advance. "I'll show it to you. I'm going to prank my friend with it." The 19-year-old allegedly claimed that video tutorials showed him how to make a bomb out of wire, nails, metal and gunpowder. At his arraignment today, McCloskey will be charged with first-degree criminal possession. “Although this defendant claims that the [device] he manufactured was intended as a prank and not to be used, this was clearly a dangerous situation with the capacity to injure many people,” said DA Daniel Donovan in a press release. “There is nothing humorous about attempting to manufacture a bomb." more ›

You got to hand it to kids — they always find interesting ways to get bent. New York City teens are apparently buying a sugary concoction of fruit punch mixed with vodka, white rum, or tequila called "Nutcracker." The sweet drinks and their frozen counterpart, "Nemo," are sold for $5 or $10 per Styrofoam cup at bodegas and barbershops, and according to the Daily News, they are quite popular among young folks. "They are poppin'. They get you sauced," said Shaquel, a 15-year-old who declined to give his last name. "Kids like them. You don't need ID to get them. It is like your first step toward drinking liquor." more ›

Forced to choose between listening to his girlfriend or following the law, a Staten Island 17-year-old decided on the latter — and now he faces up to seven years in prison because of it. An Oakwood teen, identified in the Staten Island Advance as Sean Potop, told police that he and his girlfriend were at a Mariners Harbor movie theater on Dec. 7 when they saw a woman accidentally drop her car keys on ground. Potop claims his girlfriend grabbed the keys, waited for the woman to walk away, and stole the 2005 Mitsubishi Galant. more ›

A 56-year-old woman leapt three stories to her death at the Queens Center Mall this afternoon. Her fall was broken by a 17-year-old boy who was injured, one of many teenagers milling about on the concourse level after school. The woman was in the company of two other teenagers before she jumped. She was pronounced dead at the scene; the teenager she landed on suffered serious head trauma, but is in stable condition at Elmhurst Medical Center. WPIX is saying that the teenage victim was walking on the ground level; NY1 says that he was sitting in a massage chair when the woman fell around 2:30. A witness told the Times, “First I thought it was a gunshot, and I said ‘I’m out of here.’ People started screaming. There was pandemonium and chaos. And I looked below to the lower level and people were screaming that someone had jumped from above.” Police cordoned off sections of the mall and shut down certain escalators leading to the lower level. more ›

After responding to a woman's 911 call about a domestic dispute with her son, the police fired between 13 and 20 times at the son, who claimed he had a gun. The gunfire killed 18-year-old Khiel Coppin and it turned out he was only holding a hairbrush. Coppin had been arguing with his mother in their Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, and when police arrived, came out to the window ledge, "screaming and acting irrationally," according to... more ›