August 30, 2005
HURRICANE KATRINA SPELLS PROFIT FOR OIL GOONS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J - and then finally K. It took oil speculators nearly half the alphabet before they got what they desperately needed...
HEATED EXCHANGE - NYSE BROKER SURRENDERS IN THREAT VS. MEMBER
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amAn angry late-night phone call to a lawyer's office looks to be the worst bet New York Stock Exchange broker Edward A. Reiss ever made. Reiss surrendered to the police...
AMI'S $1B DOWNGRADED AS TABS TUMBLE
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSupermarket tabloid empire American Media got another dose of bad news when Standard & Poor's reassigned its nearly $1 billion in long-term debt with a "negative" outlook, after the publisher...
230 PARK IS ON MARKET
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amONE of New York's beloved landmarks, 230 Park Ave., is up for sale and could fetch between $600 million and $720 million, The Post has learned. These days, it seems...
ANOTHER 'APPRENTICE' LINK
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amYET another questionable relationship has emerged for a contestant on "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart." Kelly Perdew, the winner of last season's Donald Trump version of "The Apprentice," and Martha-version contestant...
MONSTER 'DEVELOPMENT'
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amOSCAR winner Charlize Theron has landed a part on Fox's "Arrested Development." On the critically acclaimed comedy, Theron will play a love interest for Jason Bateman's character Michael Bluth for...
BREAKING WIND - KATRINA-KRAZY STORM TROOPERS LEFT HIGH & DRY
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amAM I crazy or was it tough to believe all those studio-bound TV anchors who begged the handsome hurricane hunks to be careful out there? They repeated their concern so...
WEST BESTS CLASS WITH 'DROPOUT' FOLLOW
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amWITH "Late Registration," Kanye West's anticipated second album, the uberproducer who became a star with last year's "The College Dropout" has moved into that hallowed land of rap - the...
DIDDY KILLED VIDEO STAR
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe Video Music Awards try to generate at least one buzzworthy, water cooler moment each year: Jacko and Lisa Marie Presley. David Lee Roth and Van Halen. Britney and Madonna....
'HEALTHWARE' STORES DUE
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amIf you want to buy a hammer, you go to a hardware store. If you want to find out about lead poisoning, you go to a doctor. But one day,...
GANG MEMBERS NABBED IN BIG L.I. CRACKDOWN
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amLong Island cops have busted hundreds of suspected gang members in a wide-ranging sweep, officials announced yesterday. From July 12 to Aug. 20, Suffolk County police concentrated on mopping up...
RIVAL AMBULANCE CLASH
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA "hot-headed" volunteer ambulance driver was detained by cops last night after refusing to yield to a city ambulance crew that had arrived first at the Lower East Side home...
PIRRO PAY$ FOR PUBLIC 'MUG'GING
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - Westchester County taxpayers have been indirectly underwriting District Attorney Jeanine's Pirro's campaign for the Senate, at least when it comes to her official campaign photo, The Post has...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA legless man is being pursued by the long arm of the law in Iowa after he tried on an artificial limb and ran off (as best as he could)...
'KIDNAP' REV MAY COP A PLEA
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe lawyer for a minister charged with barging into a woman's Bronx home and scaring the wits out of her and her 4-year-old son indicated a plea bargain could be...
VALUING FREEDOM - IN IRAQ - NO PAIN, NO GAIN
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amNERVE-wracking progress - that's been the condition inside Iraq since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003. This week, the nerve-wracking progress goes on. A subtle and supple constitution has...
DUMPING THE 'DAPPER DON' - WIFE: I LEFT GOTTI OVER MOB SON
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amJOHN GOTTI'S wife says she left the Dapper Don for two full years while he was in jail because he hid the fact that her son was in the mob....
GAZA ARABS EVACUATE TO ISRAEL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Most residents of a Gaza Strip Arab village were transplanted to Israel yesterday because they feared Palestinian retaliation for alleged collaboration with Israeli security. The 250 residents of...
'FOUND' IN THE POST - PIC BRINGS 'MISSING' MAN BACK
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe Pennsylvania man whose family reported him missing last week has been reunited with his relieved clan - after he saw his photo in The Post. Joe Colangeli, 47, of...
FAKERS LANCED - 6 ADMIT COUNTERFEITING ARMSTRONG'S BRACELETS MEANT TO AID CANCER VICTIMS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amALBANY - While Lance Armstrong was preparing to close out his career with a seventh straight Tour de France victory, some city scammers were trying to get rich by selling...
SHOPPING HERE NOW LESS TAXING
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amIf you're planning on shopping for clothing, today would be a good day to start: There's no sales tax in New York on items costing less than $110 for the...
COMEBACK KIDS SCORE - 7,200 PASS RETAKEN EXAMS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSome 7,200 schoolkids in danger of being left back because they flunked standardized reading or math tests in the spring will advance to the fourth and sixth grades after completing...
FLA. HIP-HOP MYSTERY: WHO SHOT 'SUGE'?
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amHip-hop mogul Marion "Suge" Knight told cops he had no clue who shot him Sunday at a star-studded Miami Beach party, authorities said yesterday. Detectives are investigating whether a dispute...
JACKO JUSTICE - DIMOND DITCHED BY COURT TV AFTER HER DOGGED REPORTING AT KIDDIE-SEX TRIAL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amWacko Jacko nemesis Diane Dimond has been given the boot by Court TV. Dimond, TV's best-known correspondent covering the Michael Jackson child-molestation case, left the network yesterday after she was...
'KIDNAP' REV EYES DEAL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe lawyer for a minister busted last week for allegedly barging into a woman's Bronx home and scaring the wits out of her and her 4-year-old son indicated yesterday that...
STAR LINEUP FOR BLAKE CIVIL TRIAL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amBURBANK, Calif. - Robert Blake's civil trial may include Barbara Walters, Larry King and Christian Brando as witnesses against the former "Baretta" actor, acquitted earlier this year on all charges...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amQUEENS (lcf) * Police are asking for help in locating a South Jamaica teenager who disappeared Aug. 15. Shamika Chambers-Glave (above), 18, vanished after leaving her apartment in St. Albans...
REV. AL'S WILD RIDE IN 110-MPH COP CHASE
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe Rev. Al Sharpton was in such a hurry to get out of President Bush's neighborhood that his driver blew past a deputy sheriff at 110 mph and then led...
2005 U.S. OPEN
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amCOURT JESTER Jim Carrey has plenty of balls - and he was whacking them all into the stands at the U.S. Open yesterday. The wacky comic delighted tennis fans as...
DISABLED 'DRUG' GRANNY SHOT DEAD
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA suspected drug-dealing, wheelchair-bound, party-loving granny was gunned down in front of her Brooklyn home yesterday as she returned from a late-night boat bash, police said. Detectives were trying to...
SUBWAY SICKO'S '94 BUST EXPOSED
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA city restaurateur suspected of being a subway perv had been busted years ago for exposing himself on a train platform, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. Authorities said Dan Hoyt -...
CITY EYES 'HEALTHWARE' STORES
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amIf you want to buy a hammer, you go to a hardware store. If you want to find out about lead poisoning, you go to a doctor. But one day,...
HILL ROUNDS THE BASES SHE SAVED
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday took a victory tour of the upstate military bases she helped save from being shut down by a federal panel. As the state's...
HURRICANE BLOWING ROOF OFF GOTHAM GAS PRICES
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amGas prices in the city soared well above $3 a gallon at some stations yesterday - and owners warned of additional 15-cent hikes soon to come, courtesy of Katrina. At...
PISTOL-PACKIN' POP SHOOTS BABY SON: COPS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA Bronx man went ballistic, whipping out a gun to threaten noisy neighbors, but accidentally plugging his own infant son in the leg, police said yesterday. Daniel Jones, 39, of...
WEINER TAKES GIFF TO 'SCHOOL'
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amRep. Anthony Weiner unveiled a new TV ad yesterday in which he says he went to public schools his entire life - a clear shot at rival Gifford Miller, who's...
'PREPPY' SMACKED - EXTRA DAYS FOR LATENESS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amAn annoyed Manhattan judge slapped "Preppy Killer" Robert Chambers with an extra 10 days in jail yesterday, after he was an hour late for sentencing on his latest brush with...
MAN LIVES AFTER 9-FLOOR CHIMNEY FALL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA construction worker miraculously survived a nine-floor fall down a chimney in downtown Brooklyn yesterday. The unidentified worker is in Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition with...
GOTTI SR.'S HIT THREAT ON WRITER
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amJohn "Dapper Don" Gotti showed the vengeful side of his love/hate relationship with the press in a taped prison chat with his son John "Junior" Gotti - venting that he'd...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS MET IN AN OPERATING ROOM PREGNANT WITH FEAR
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amMedical experts say Roseann Errante survived a nearly 90 percent fatality rate. Dr. Frank Seifert, a Stony Brook cardiothoracic surgeon, had only performed an acute aortic dissection on a pregnant...
MIRACULOUS MOM - GIVES BIRTH TO TRIPLETS BEFORE HEART SURGERY
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amIt was a case of not one, but two miracles for a grateful Long Island mom as doctors raced against the clock to save her unborn triplets - then performed...
SERENA'S WINNING LOBE - EARRING FALLS, BUT WILLIAMS DOESN'T
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amDiamonds may be a girl's best friend, but not necessarily so with women's tennis players. Eighth-seeded Serena Williams struggled early in the second set yesterday and fell behind a break...
'DRUG' GRAN SHOT DEAD - KILLED IN WHEELCHAIR
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA suspected drug-dealing, wheelchair-bound, party-loving granny was gunned down in front of her Brooklyn home yesterday as she returned from a late-night boat bash, police said. Detectives were trying to...
GOTTI SR. MADE JAILHOUSE HIT THREAT ON MOB AUTHOR
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amJohn "Dapper Don" Gotti showed the vengeful side of his love/hate relationship with the press in a taped prison chat with his son John "Junior" Gotti - venting that he'd...
'MISSING' MAN BACK IN PICTURE, THANKS TO POST
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe Pennsylvania man whose family reported him missing last week has been reunited with his relieved clan - after he saw his photo in The Post. Joe Colangeli, 47, of...
HILL ROUNDS BASES SHE SAVED
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday took a victory tour of the upstate military bases she helped save from being shut down by a federal panel. As the state's...
CRUSHED HARD HAT DIES IN HIS BROTHER'S ARMS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA worker died in his brother's arms while another miraculously escaped a nine-story fall in separate construction-site accidents in Brooklyn yesterday. Arturo Gonzalez, 27, was crushed to death at around...
GIRL SHOT IN B'KLYN GUNFIGHT
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA 14-year-old girl was hit by a stray bullet when gunfire erupted on a Brooklyn street yesterday afternoon, police said. Three people, including the suspected shooter were taken into custody....
RIDER HURT IN HARLEM SUBWAY FIRE
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amA fire broke out in a Harlem subway tunnel last night, injuring a man and halting train service for more than an hour, fire officials said. The blaze, just south...
STORM'S DEATH TOLL SOARING - 69 AND COUNTING AS HURRICANE WREAKS HAVOC ALONG GULF COAST
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amHurricane Katrina yesterday roared through the Gulf Coast, killing at least 69 people - with officials fearing more bodies will be found today. The wild Category 4 storm's howling winds...
EMINENTLY ODD - BETSY'S BROOKLYN BLINDNESS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amDOES Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum understand what is going on in her own city? On her official Web site, Gotbaum calls herself, "the city's watchdog and New Yorkers' ombudswoman." In...
SERENA 'BLINGS' IT ON - SPORTS 40G IN JEWELS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSerena Williams proved that diamonds are a girl's best friend as she marched onto the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium yesterday in a stunning pair of diamond earrings worth $40,000...
A 'POP' STAR - PITT PLAYS DADDY TO JOLIE KIDS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amIt's Brad the dad! Brad Pitt shows off his parenting skills in New York yesterday as he tenderly cares for gal pal Angelina Jolie's adopted son and daughter while she...
'KAT'ASTROPHE ON GULF COAST - KILLER 'CANE TEARS A PATH OF DESTRUCTION IN NEW ORLEANS, MISS & ALA.
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amKiller Katrina yesterday devastated the Gulf Coast as her howling hurricane winds toppled buildings and shredded part of the Louisiana Superdome roof, as her rains submerged entire neighborhoods in New...
'KAT'ASTROPHE ON GULF COAST - KILLER 'CANE TEARS A PATH OF DESTRUCTION IN NEW ORLEANS, MISS. & ALA.
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amKiller Katrina yesterday devastated the Gulf Coast as its howling hurricane winds and rain toppled buildings, shredded off part of the Louisiana Superdome roof, and submerged entire neighborhoods in New...
TEACHERS MADE IN AMERICA
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThe city is seeking homegrown teachers - again. Seven years after making headlines by aggressively wooing teachers overseas, the Department of Education has cut foreign recruitment to its lowest level...
ANDRE'S KING ON COURT - AND WITH FANS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amMidway through Andre Agassi's 6-3, 6-3, 6-1 romp over Razvan Sabau - a dominating way to start his 20th straight and perhaps last U.S. Open - a fan yelled out...
IT'S DEJA BOO FOR BLINKER SNAFU
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amGreatest handicapping angle going: late blinker-change announcements at Old Spa. Last Thursday, as reported in "Binocs," Nolan's Cat donned blinkers for Dale Romans - although change was not listed on...
IT'S UP TO NADAL TO UNSEAT ROGER
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amANDY Roddick, whose game is mostly unreturnable serves, is unwatchable when at his very best. Andre Agassi, who is 35 and feeling it, might have one more run in this...
BEYOND QUESTION, A BAD INTERVIEW
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSOME of the most noteworthy moments in sports broadcasting have a way of sneaking in under the radar. This past Saturday, for example. ESPN's live coverage of the King's Bishop...
ELI'S ELBOW PASSES 1ST REAL TEST
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amGIANT NOTES Feeling nothing was the best-case scenario for Eli Manning, who awakened yesterday and felt no discomfort whatsoever in his strained right elbow. Manning on Sunday threw for the...
DOMECOMING IN DOUBT - KATRINA IMPERILS JINT'S BIG DAY IN BIG EASY
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amCorey Webster took special notice of the destination of his first-ever NFL road game. Right there, in Week 2, the Giants travel to New Orleans, a homecoming for the rookie...
ABRAHAM RUSHES BACK TO JETS WITH NO HARD FEELINGS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSaying his absence from training camp "was something I had to do," John Abraham signed his one-year, $6.67 million franchise tender late yesterday afternoon and said he can't wait to...
BAKER HOT IN OPENER
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK Who says American men's tennis is dead? Wild-card entry Brian Baker, an obscure 20-year-old from Nashville who carried in a 3-11 career record and a 181st ranking, pulled the...
KOZLOV HOPING TO STAY A DEVIL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amOne of the Devils possibly endangered by the NHL's new salary cap doesn't want to be a victim. Center Viktor Kozlov is working out informally with his teammates at South...
THOMAS NOT BUMPED FROM DE SPOT ... YET
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amJET NOTES Just because John Abraham ended his long absence from the Jets yesterday doesn't mean fellow defensive end Bryan Thomas will be a forgotten man. "If we were to...
SVETLANA'S DONE EARLY
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amLast September, Svetlana Kuznetsova made history as the lowest seeded woman - ninth - to win the U.S. Open, when she defeated fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Yesterday, in her return...
YANKS, A'S BATTLE FOR BELLHORN
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - The fight for the AL wild card wasn't the only one being waged between the A's and Yankees yesterday. Each club, as well as another team,...
BULLPEN BAIT - METS LOOK INTO TRADING TRACHSEL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES After deciding not to put Steve Trachsel in their rotation for the foreseeable future, the Mets have been pursuing possible trades for the veteran right-hander. Multiple baseball officials...
NO COASTING - BOMBERS CAN'T LOOK PAST LOWLY MARINERS
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSEATTLE - When the Yankees began play on Aug. 11, they were 5 ½ games behind the Red Sox in the AL East and 4 ½ lengths behind the AL...
TRACH OUTTA TOWN?
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amMET NOTES After deciding not to put Steve Trachsel in their rotation for the foreseeable future, the Mets have been pursuing possible trades for the veteran right-hander. Multiple baseball officials...
RINGING FOR BELLHORN - YANKS READY TO SIGN EX-BOSTON 2B
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES SEATTLE - If Mark Bellhorn clears waivers today, the free-agent infielder will sign with the Yankees. Another team could claim the former Red Sox second baseman but that...
MARIA'S LOOKING JUST FINE
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amMaria Sharapova didn't look like somebody nursing a bad pectoral, or play like somebody who had to withdraw from a Los Angeles tournament just three weeks ago. But the Russian...
TWO MORE TIMES! - JASON BLASTS ANOTHER PAIR AS YANKS PREVAIL
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amYankees 7 - Mariners 4 SEATTLE - Jason Giambi's muscles were big enough to overcome Mike Mussina's second consecutive putrid outing last night at Safeco Field. With Mussina gone after...
THREE GAMES FOUR FRUSTRATING YEARS IN THE MAKING
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amTHE last time Shea Stadium felt the way it's going to feel the next three days, there was still a smoldering ruin blunting the southern tip of Manhattan and boring...
SERIES HAS A PALYOFF PHIL - WILD-CARD DREAMS COLLIDE AS METS GREET PHILLIES
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amThere won't be any scoreboard-watching tonight. There doesn't need to be. The team the Mets are chasing will be in the other dugout. Coming off their impressive 5-2 journey against...
KATRINA MAKES WAVES FOR LAWTON
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amSEATTLE - Usually a trade from a non-contending team to one in the thick of a pennant race becomes the most important issue in a ballplayer's life. But Matt Lawton's...
SVETLANA'S STUNNED IN FIRST ROUND
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amLast September, Svetlana Kuznetsova made history as the lowest seeded woman - ninth - to win the U.S. Open, when she defeated fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Yesterday, in her return...
ONE AND DONE - KUZNETSOVA STUNNED IN OPENER
August 30, 2005 | 4:00amLast September, Svetlana Kuznetsova made history as the lowest seeded woman - ninth - to win the U.S. Open, when she defeated fellow Russian Elena Dementieva. Yesterday, in her return...