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Multiple people were shot at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday morning, the city's fire department told CBS News. There's a heavy police presence at the station in the Sunset Park neighborhood, at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue, CBS New York reports. The NYPD is reporting a smoke condition at the station. An NYPD official tells CBS News a smoke bomb device was found. A photo from the scene showed people tending to bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the station. The D, N, and R subway trains are holding in stations in both directions in...

A suicidal college student who carried highly toxic sodium cyanide into a subway tunnel caused a brief terrorism scare early Friday, police said. Track workers spotted the 20-year-old man - wearing a hard hat, safety vest and boots - at about 5:30 a.m. wandering deep inside the tunnel under the East River.

A former Queens man yesterday confessed that he was trained by al Qaeda -- and that he had plotted to blow up the city's subway system around the anniversary of 9/11 last year. Najibullah Zazi, 25, told a Brooklyn federal court judge how he had driven to New York City from Denver, where he lived, on Sept. 10, 2009, with a detonator in his bag and bomb-making plans on his laptop to launch a "martyrdom" massacre at the behest of al Qaeda operatives. "It meant that I would sacrifice myself to bring attention to what the US military was doing...

Assem Hammoud, 31, the architect of a plan to bomb New York tunnels, was trained and directed by Al Qaida to strike by the end of this year, U.S. and Lebanese officials said. "Security forces were able to track e-mails and conversations on an extremist Islamic website used to recruit terrorists," the Lebanese Internal Security Forces said in a statement. Hammoud, nicknamed the "Andalusian prince" in an apparent reference to Islamic emirs who once ruled Spain, was trained in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein Hilwe near Sidon, the ISF statement said. Ein Hilwe has long been a hotbed of...

New York police said they had nabbed 13 flashers and gropers in a recent sting operation on the city subway system that used undercover policewomen as bait. "We hope there'll be deterrent value for potential perpetrators who recognise their victim may be a police officer," said Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne. The two-day sting mission, dubbed "Operation Exposure," was actually carried out in May in response to increased complaints from women commuters of men behaving lewdly on the subway network. The sting involved a number of female police officers who posed as businesswomen and rode the trains during rush hour. The...

On Fox and Friends former New York police commissioner Howard Safir revealed that "two Palestinian kids" were apprehended with backpack bombs destined for the New York subway detonation in 1997.

The New York Civil Liberties Union will file suit against the city Thursday to keep police from searching the bags of passengers entering the subway, organization lawyers said. The suit, which will be filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, will claim that the two-week old policy violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and prohibitions against unlawful searches and seizures, while doing almost nothing to shield the city from terrorism. It argues that the measure also allows the possibility for racial profiling, even though officers are ordered to randomly screen passengers. "While concerns about terrorism of course justify -- indeed,...