A teen who brutally stabbed a 12-year-old boy has been given the maximum juvenile sentence for the attempted murder. Wayne Henderson, 17, was found guilty last month of the attempted murder, assault and disfigurement of Luis Martinez; Henderson and his girlfriend Carina Parache stabbed Martinez multiple times together and carved an "X" into his face two years ago. “This is the most vicious crime I’m seen in my 25 years on the bench,” said Judge James Griffin. more ›

Squeamish about tongue piercings but still want to look like a badass or at least capable of delivering value-added oral sex? Non-piercing fake magnetic tongue rings are here to help, and they are apparently popular with the youths of today. As one online magnetic stud dealer explains, you simply "place the ball between your teeth and press your tongue up to it. Suck on the Tongue Ball and it will hold to your Tongue just like the real thing." So hardcore softcore. There's just one catch: it could kill you. more ›

Earlier this week, we were horrified by the video of two New Jersey men beating up a homeless man, seemingly for fun. Taylor Giresi, 20, and a 17-year-old accomplice were both arrested and charged with aggravated assault; they're also accused of stealing 50-year-old victim David Ivins bicycle as well. And now, Ivins has reportedly suffered a seizure. more ›

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 ›

Despite reports that all teenagers are technologically overzealous horndogs, like, 24/7, a new study says to slow down just a minute—apparently teenagers aren't so into sexting, after all. more ›

Nine Harlem teens were sent to the hospital after a 14-year-old girl reportedly pepper sprayed her classmates yesterday. The incident occurred yesterday around 2 p.m. at the Academy for Social Action, which is one of four schools at 509 W. 129th Street. One student told the Post that the girl had reportedly "sprayed the irritant indiscriminately into the air." more ›

A teen basketball player was killed, and two other teens were injured when a gunman opened fire in Canarsie just after 3 p.m. yesterday, blocks away from their high school. Shaquille Jones, 17, died from a shot to the head; a 16-year-old and 19-year-old were wounded and taken to Brookdale Hospital where they are listed in stable condition. “This is a tragedy. This is not the type of kid to get shot,” classmate Jason Johnson said about Jones, who he called "a good kid." more ›

A party boat carrying a bunch of teenagers had to make an emergency stop at Randall's Island last night, not because they group had run out of Boone's Farm, but because three "intoxicated teens" needed medical attention. DNAinfo reports that the FDNY received an emergency call from the boat around 7 p.m. No word on whether the teens eventually made it to their original destination, Pleasure Island. more ›

Last week, a Queens teenager was stabbed to death as a gang of other teens attempted to rob him of his iPhone. Police have now arrested 17-year-old Stephon Huffman for the botched robbery and murder of Patrick Dixon. more ›

Is the video below—in which a disgruntled driver cuts down a parking meter with a chainsaw—real or fake? The internet isn't quite sure, but the video has blown up in the meantime. The uploader writes: "caught this on my iphone during a cab ride in brooklyn: a cop was giving these two guys a ticket because their van was parked by an expired parking meter and one of them got really mad and cut off the meter with a saw!!!" Watch below: more ›

Are you still lamenting the stadium-less plight of the New York Majesty? Are you convinced that the Los Angeles Temptations are forming an unstoppable dynasty? Do you love women in underwear playing football? Then you are probably already a fan of the Lingerie Football League, the premiere American woman's tackle football league—whose barely-there uniforms include panties, bras and pads. Three years since its inception, the LFL has announced its intentions to launch a youth football division to give girls with pigtails a chance to throw around pigskins. more ›

Two teens were stabbed yesterday during a Staten Island high school knife attack, according to SILive. A third teen, 16-year-old Larry Adeyanju, was arrested and charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon. According to police, Adeyanju was hauled to the dean's office at Curtis High School after the stabbings—where he made a very unsuccessful attempt at hiding the bloody knife. It sounds like teens at the school aren't very surprised by the incident, or the increase in security thereafter: “It’s Curtis. We’ll get over it,” said freshman Raquel Rodriguez. more ›

A retired Brooklyn monsignor was arrested yesterday and accused of attempting to molest two teenage boys this past Thursday. Msgr. Thomas Brady, 78, was charged with attempting a "criminal sex act" toward two teenage boys. “It’s devastating,” said Stefanie Gutierrez, a spokeswoman for the Diocese of Brooklyn, who placed Brady on administrative leave. “He was a well-regarded pastor. He’s loved in the parish.” more ›

For your viewing pleasure, here is a group of rowdy teenagers resisting arrest in the 2/3 subway station at 125th Street. According to the witness who posted the video on YouTube, Frank Harts, the "girls jumps NYC Subway gate to avoid fare. When cops try to arrest them.... this is what happens." What "happens" is utter pandemonium, as Animal New York aptly describes it. Simply put, these young ladies are NOT HAVING IT. Don't miss the 1:40 mark, where one teenager swings her bag and smacks a cop right in the face. more ›

Police say they are searching for a gang of subway thieves who have struck at least three times since August—including twice at one of the busiest subway stations in Manhattan. Four of the five suspects are male, but the female suspect has the words "Hated" and "Loved" tattooed on her arm. Must be a fan of Charles Laughton? more ›

The reports of creepy dudes using Facebook to stalk and harass teens keep rolling in: police have accused a 53-year-old Pennsylvania man of creating multiple fake Facebook accounts in an attempt to lure a 14-year-old girl into have sex with him. And there was a split-personality/teenage fantasy twist to the suspect's machinations. more ›

Police say that a 14-year-old New Jersey girl was sexually assaulted by a man who had been Facebook stalking her—and it might not be the first time he's done it. They have arrested 29-year-old Michael Sebastian and accused him of posing as a 17-year-old in order to get close to the teen victim. “The conversations and chats in the messages got sexual very quickly and to the victim’s credit, she said ‘no,’ but didn’t want to meet him. She tried to do the right thing,” First Assistant District Attorney Al Cernadas Jr. told CBS. more ›

A 9-year-old boy was stabbed in the stomach while walking with his grandmother on Wednesday in Brooklyn, and police are now searching for two teens who they believe are responsible. Siu Fung Sze was walking home from summer camp with his grandmother in Sheepshead Bay around 6 p.m. when they were jumped: "The two attackers were standing here, they were leaning against the poles. Basically, they came out of nowhere and stabbed her grandson," said a translator for the grandmother, Yue Lan Zhou. more ›

A 16-year-old girl has been arrested and charged in the murder of a rival gang member. Police say that Sahiah (Uzi) Davis was ordered to kill 16-year-old Nathaniel Walcott in April by her new crew, the Wave Gang. "They wanted her to do this to show that she's down with them," one source told the News. more ›

A 15-year-old fell to his death from a Brooklyn school roof after trespassing, police say. WABC 7 reports that the boy, Nick Gryak, and his friends "apparently like to spend their summer climbing the scaffolding and hanging out on the roof" of Roy H. Mann Junior High School on East 68th Street in Mill Basin. And the Daily News reports, "He tumbled down the shaft about 10:20 p.m., officials and family said. Nick plummeted five floors to the basement, where he got stuck in the shaft, sources said. He died at the scene." more ›

OMG, guys, O. M. G. Not only did Barack Obama finally take down Osama bin Laden but now, thanks to an off-the-cuff promise he made to the 14-year-old daughter of a 9/11 victim, some lucky young ladies may be able to meet the haircut himself, Justin Bieber. At least that is what the pop star's Twitter is implying! more ›

President Obama's solemn visit to Ground Zero and meeting with first responders and 9/11 victims' families was marked by a little levity—and the Bieb. Friends Payton Wall and Madison Roberston, both 14 year-olds whose fathers died in the September 11, 2001 attacks, had written letters to the White House and, on Monday, Payton's letter— about "the entire day [of Sept. 11, 2001] and how I pictured it happening, and what it's like to have to live without a father"—happened to be in the batch of 10 random letters the White House staff gave Obama. The teens and Payton's mother and sister were invited to meet the President yesterday. more ›

Adam Kim and Kevin Jun, two of the five New Jersey teenagers left locked in a police van for 14 hours after a party raid, have had some issues trusting The System since the incident two weeks ago, and will be working out those issues with a lawsuit. Kim even says he has been left with a slight phobia of cars. "This situation was a complete failure of all acceptable police practices," Kim's attorney, Nancy Lucianna, told NorthJersey.com. "All they had to do was check the van and check the amount of cellphones left in headquarters." more ›

According to a CDC report, nearly 15 percent of Hispanic female teenagers in NYC tried to commit suicide in 2008, compared with 10 percent of all city high school girls. In particular, Brooklyn had a 21 percent rate of suicide attempts among teen Latinas. Officials are now trying to figure out why exactly that is...but we're wondering why they're only trying to figure this out now. more ›

It's an adolescent rite of passage: one minute you're doing rips off a beer bong and pogoing to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones at a raging house party, the next minute you're getting loaded into a police van and left for dead somewhere in Fort Lee, New Jersey. We've all been there! But you never forget your first time: a group of five teenagers say they were rounded up after cops raided their house party at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, then locked inside a van outside police headquarters for 14 hours. more ›

According to a new study by the National Center for Health Statistics, fewer teenagers and young adults are having sex than they did a decade ago. Even though teens in NYC are reportedly having more "risky sex", the majority of teens are delaying having sex later and later...but why? more ›

Gumshoes are starting to sound a bit desperate for work: first, we heard about a real-life Ace Ventura pet detective, and now the News has a story on retired NYPD cop Andy Spieler, who makes his living in the heady world of teenage surveillance. more ›