September 4, 1999
JOBS REPORT SENDS DOW, NASDAQ FLYING
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amStocks got a big green light yesterday and zoomed into the fast lane. After a government jobs report showed a slowing economy, easing fears of a Federal Reserve rate hike,...
THE SPORTING NEWS LOOKING TO TRADE OWNERS
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amTimes Mirror CEO Mark Willes is putting The Sporting News on the block - less than two years after pledging to inject $20 million to rejuvenate the 113-year-old weekly. Efrem...
MOVIES FOR MUNCHKINS
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amWith "Rugrats" on the boob tube, why bother taking the kids to the movies? Because there's something liberating about sitting in the dark with your little ones - far from...
MADONNA PICKS TRES FRANCAIS SCHOOL FOR LOURDES
September 4, 1999 | 4:00am"Everybody knows Madonna wants her daughter to be educated in Britain, but this way she gets the best of all worlds."MADONNA PAL LONDON - Madonna has reportedly given a top...
MILLION YOUTH LEADERS MARCHING EVERY WHICH WAY
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amOrganizers of today's Million Youth March appeared to be in disarray yesterday while police planned to avoid a repetition of last year's melee. Khalid Muhammad, who has sparred with city...
GUMBEL GETS HIS CO-HOST AT LONG LAST
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe long hunt for Bryant Gumbel's co-host on his new CBS morning telecast, "The Early Show," is over. TV reporter Jane Clayson - a young ABC correspondent who came to...
BRADLEY GIVING GORE A RUN FOR HIS MONEY IN N.H.
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Bill Bradley is closing the gap with Vice President Gore in New Hampshire: He now trails by just 7 points among Democrats and runs stronger than Gore against...
GET-TOUGH CREW VOWS TO EXPAND SUMMER SCHOOL
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amSchools Chancellor Rudy Crew vows no student will be turned away from summer school next year - a promise he needs to keep if his get-tough promotion policy is to...
HOUSE SELLS FOR 435G WITH SKELETON THROWN IN
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amPolice are probing a bizarre murder mystery on Long Island, after the mummified body of a woman was found in a metal drum that had been in the crawl space...
JUSTICE? IT MUST SOUND LIKE FICTION TO YOUNG GOTTI
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amJUNIOR Gotti had pretty much confessed in White Plains federal court that he was no angel. But, on the ground floor of the courthouse, he would recall one of the...
THE REAL REASON RUDY YIELDED ON SUCCESSION
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amMAYOR Giuliani had second thoughts about his effort to change the rules on mayoral succession after his campaign conducted a secret poll. One person who was called by the mayor's...
'JUNIOR' TAKES HIS 'MEDICINE' - 6 YEARS
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amDeclaring "I'm here to take my medicine," John A. "Junior" Gotti was sentenced yesterday to nearly 6 years behind bars. Gotti, the 35-year-old son of "Dapper Don" John Gotti, made...
JUDGE TELLS FEDS TO GIVE UP ALL WACO EVIDENCE
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A federal judge has ordered the government to turn over all evidence on the disastrous 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian complex in Waco or face a contempt-of-court...
ISRAEL & ARAFAT SIGN OFF ON LAND DEAL:AGREE ON WEST BANK & NO UNILATERAL MOVE FOR PALESTINIAN STATE
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians agreed last night on a deal to speed a further Israeli pullback from the West Bank - after two furious days of talks with...
STORM MAY INTRUDE ON LABOR DAY SUN 'N' FUN
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amIt should be fun and mostly sun for the Labor Day weekend - but it all depends on tropical storm Dennis. The National Weather Service predicts a mixture of sun...
HE'S THE FATHER IN PAYMENT ONLY: KID'S NOT HIS, BUT HE OWE$
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amA 42-year-old Brooklyn man is "outraged" he must keep paying more than $500 a month in child support even though DNA tests prove he's not the child's father. "As soon...
'DADDY' DE NIRO WAS IN SAME BOAT FOR 10 YEARS
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amRobert De Niro is lucky the Queens judge who ordered a cop to keep paying child support even though he's not the child's biological father wasn't talkin' to him. Helena...
TERRIFIED NEIGHBORS ADOPT BUNKER MENTALITY
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amResidents near the swampy Queens cove where encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes are hiding are terrified of the potential killer in their midst - and furious they weren't warned sooner. "I think everybody...
JEALOUS HUSBAND NABBED IN MIDTOWN SHOOTING
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amAn enraged employee walked into his Midtown office yesterday and shot a co-worker because he thought the man was having an affair with his wife, police said. "Help me! Help...
PREZ PUTS DEADLINE ON FALN CLEMENCY DEAL
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - President Clinton's spokesman yesterday said Clinton expects FALN members to give an answer to his clemency offer within a week - and hinted that if they don't, the...
GOP WANTS DETAILS OF DEAL ON CLINTON HOUSE
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amRepublicans yesterday demanded President Clinton and wife Hillary "come clean" on the $1.35 million favor from a controversial Democratic fund-raiser that let them buy their dream house. The White House...
CITY ON ALERT AS PESTS SPREAD DEADLY VIRUS: QUEENS ENCEPHALITIS OUTBREAK CLAIMS TWO
September 4, 1999 | 4:00am"It can be very, very dangerous, particularly for people over 60."MAYOR GIULIANI The city launched an unprecedented war against mosquitoes in northern Queens yesterday after 24 people were stricken with...
SMALL KIDS AND ELDERLY ARE MOST VULNERABLE
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe outbreak of mosquito-borne St. Louis Encephalitis that has hit Queens can be most dangerous and deadly for the elderly and small children, medical experts say. Encephalitis is an inflammation...
AREA NURSING HOMES BATTEN DOWN HATCHES
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amNursing homes in the area of the encephalitis outbreak last night shut their doors, shuttered windows and tried to calm panicky elderly residents most at risk to the deadly virus....
JETS LOOK IN MIRER & FIND NEW WEAPONS
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amIf last night's Jets-Vikings game was a Super Bowl preview, as a number of pre-season prognosticators are suggesting, the Georgia Dome will be rocking with green-clad fans to the beat...
ONSLAUGHT HAS A RICK & ROLL BEAT
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES When it was over, when the Jets' 38-17 rout of the Vikings was safely tucked away, Vinny Testaverde walked up to journeyman backup quarterback Rick Mirer and whispered...
JERSEY JUSTIN'S CAMP SCRAMBLING FOR TIX
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amOPEN NOTES Barry Gimelstob, father of Jersey's Justin Gimelstob, was scrambling around yesterday, trying to drum up tickets for today's third-round all-American showdown vs. Andre Agassi. The elder Gimelstob has...
CALM AFTER THE STORM: ORDONEZ, LOPEZ DOWNPLAY SIGNIFICANCE OF BRAWL
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe lockers of Rey Ordonez and Luis Lopez sit right next to each other in the Mets' clubhouse; both players were conspicuously absent before last night's game. Thirty-six hours after...
FAMILIAR NAMES ON THE BUBBLE AS PARCELLS PONDERS FINAL 53
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amJET NOTES With the final cutdown to 53 players facing the Jets and the rest of the NFL tomorrow, Bill Parcells went into last night's game with some difficult decisions...
DWIGHT HOPES JETS RETURN TO STONE AGE
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amLast night's fourth and final pre-season game against the Vikings at Giants Stadium represented a number of things for the Jets as they attempted to fine tune for their Sept....
IRABU'S NO LOCK FOR PLAYOFF SPOT
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amANAHEIM - Barring injury to another starter, something that would seriously dent the Yankees' hopes of repeating as World Series champions, the remainder of Hideki Irabu's season is an audition...
AGENT'S NOT DOING NDUR ANY FAVORS
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amBURLINGTON, Vt. - A blunder by agent Jay Fee has apparently cost his client, Rumun Ndur, a shot at unrestricted free agency following this season, The Post has learned. The...
NINE 2-YEAR-OLDS HOPEFUL OF WIN
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Today's Grade 1, $200,000 Hopeful Stakes at the old Spa promised to showcase budding superstar More Than Ready as the odds-on favorite in a short field. But...
GENTLEMEN: LET MICHIGAN AND ND BEGIN
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amANN ARBOR - If there's no crying in baseball, surely we can't expect there to be any gentlemen's agreements in big-time college football. There are contracts in big-time college football....
GIANTS LOSE GARY IN GORY EXHIBITION
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amRavens 28 Giants 24 BALTIMORE - When the Giants finally play for real, they will entrust their running game to LeShon Johnson and Sean Bennett when they venture to Tampa...
BYRNE'S VET BANNED
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - The New York State Racing and Wagering Board yesterday revoked the track privileges of Kentucky-based veterinarian Dr. Greg Fox and announced it will begin proceedings against trainer...
CHAOS REIGNS AS FANS FUME
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amIn a bizarre scheduling decision, the U.S. Open day session was thrown into chaos yesterday after USTA officials assigned No. 1 seeded Martina Hingis to play her third-round match at...
MIGLIORE ON TRACK FOR RECOVERY
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amJockey Richard Migliore had the cast on his right arm removed Thursday. The injured limb is now in an Ace bandage. Migliore will not get another cast placed on his...
NL UMP RIPPLEY PONDERS QUITTING
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amBelieve it or not, National League ump Steve Rippley is ready to call it quits over what he sees as baseball's lack of interest in fielding the best umpiring crews...
SPINAWAY GOES TO CIRCLE OF LIFE
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amSARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas's Surfside, the highly touted daughter of champions Seattle Slew and Flanders, was gallant in defeat as the even-money favorite in yesterday's$200,000 Spinaway. But...
UPON FURTHER REVIEW, FASSEL HATES REPLAY
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES BALTIMORE - The regular season hasn't even started, and yet this is Jim Fassel's take on the challenges that are allowed in the NFL's new instant replay system:...
GORING DOESN'T KNOW WHAT ISLES CAN'T DO
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amLAKE PLACID - Butch Goring has no idea what he's getting into. With training camp opening here tomorrow at the Olympic Center, the Islanders' new coach is taking over a...
MARTINA, PAPA 'BURY' THE HATCHET
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amIn what was a contrived attempt at a truce, Martina Hingis presented Richard Williams with an autographed white T-shirt to kick off Hingis' post-match news conference yesterday. Then they hugged...
AMAZIN'S ARE TALK OF THE TOWN
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe Mets have been our daily baseball soap opera, fighting for the playoffs and with each other. DARRYL Strawberry returns to the Yankees. Been there, done that. Borrrrrrring. Luis Lopez...
REY, LOPEZ: NO BIG DEAL
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amThe lockers of Rey Ordonez and Luis Lopez sit right next to each other in the Mets' clubhouse; both players were conspicuously absent before last night's game. Thirty-six hours after...
BULLPEN FAILS AS METS FALL 4½ OUT
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amThis clearly isn't how the Mets had hoped to open this homestand. First, a fight on the team bus Thursday morning that left their shortstop with a black eye, and...
REED RETURN MEANS SIX-MAN ROTATION
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amWith the return of injured starter Rick Reed, the Mets will use a six-man pitching rotation for at least the next two weeks, according to manager Bobby Valentine. "There's nothing...
CHAMBLISS, RANDOLPH IN MANAGER HUNT
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES ANAHEIM - Terry Collins wasn't halfway through his resignation speech yesterday afternoon when people were talking about Yankee coaches Chris Chambliss and Willie Randolph as candidates to succeed...
NEW-LOOK ANGELS HIT ANDY HARD
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amAngels 8 Yankees 2 ANAHEIM - The worst team in baseball lost its manager yesterday when Terry Collins resigned. Collins threw in the towel because he believed he had run...
SCOTT BACK AFTER TRIP TO SEE DAD
September 4, 1999 | 4:00amANAHEIM - If Thursday night was the last time Scott Brosius saw his father alive, the Yankee third baseman is thankful for the time he spent with Maury this past...