11-year-old Boy Scout Owen Halpin found a lighter on the school grounds Wednesday. Like most boys, any fire-related item is of immediate interest, so he pocketed it. But another student spotted Halpin with the lighter and narced him out, so the superintendent of the Jamesburg, N.J. middle school took swift action, suspending Owen (for one day) for weapons possession. "We take our security here very seriously," superintendent Gail Verona tells CBS2. And so does Halpin's father Patrick—he called the police and told them that many of the teachers are probably packing the same kind of weapon. Burn. more ›

Since the man who allegedly stabbed two men to death on the No. 2 train last week reportedly wielded a kitchen knife, it appears that the NYPD may be stepping up enforcement on anything with a sharp edge. Nate Appleman, the chef at Keith McNally's trendy new Bowery pizza resturant Pulino's, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the East Village and charged with weapons possession. Cops approached Appleman because they spotted a chain running from his belt into a pocket. What they found inside may not shock you. more ›

Gov. Paterson has pardoned a solider whose earlier conviction on gun possession charges barred had barred him from fulfilling his lifelong goal of joining the New York Police Department, the Times reports. In only his second pardon since taking office, Paterson granted clemency to Osvaldo Hernandez — a former paratrooper with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division — who was arrested in 2002 when police found a semiautomatic pistol beneath his car seat. more ›

Check out this cute K-9 dog who helped cops find a man who was brandishing a gun on a city bus! According to the Daily News, Blaze, a 7-year-old "gun-loving" German shepherd, took a gun that was left under a car at 225th and White Plains Road in the Bronx. While carrying the gun in his mouth, the pup matched "the scent on the weapon to the scent on the pavement" and "tracked the suspect more than a block and a half. With his handler, Officer Benny Colecchia, at his side, Blaze zeroed in on a backyard on E. 227th St., where identical twins were playing dominos." The fun with dominos ended, because Rahsheim Francis, 17, was charged with weapon possession. And the gun turned out to be a BB gun. more ›

Former Giants star Plaxico Burress has pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon in 2nd degree and will server 2 years in prison, in what WCBS 2 says is a deal with the Manhattan DA's office. It sounds like a deal, since he was facing 3 1/2 to 15 years on the three charges he was indicted on—"two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment." more ›

A man who apparently fired at police after a traffic stop in Queens was charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Darnell Routier, a passenger in a livery cab with another person stopped by the NYPD's anti-gang unit at Foch Boulevard and 169th Street in Jamaica on Saturday night, had fled the car and initiated fire. Police returned fire, hitting him in the leg and arm. more ›