May 27, 2009
NYPD FACING $220M 'SODOMY' SUIT
A tattoo artist who accused cops of sodomizing him in a Brooklyn subway station with a baton will hit the NYPD with a $220 million lawsuit tomorrow, according to his...
Perez will start again in minors
From MIKE PUMAIt doesn't sound as if Oliver Perez is close to a Mets return after struggling through 4 1/3 innings Tuesday during a rehab start for Triple-A Buffalo. Though...
Good news for Bruney; Cabrera iffy
By GEORGE A. KING IIIARLINGTON, Texas -- It looks like Brian Bruney doesn't have structural damage in his right elbow, with an examination by Dr. James Andrews today confirming the...
Power Surge
Let's face it, chicks dig the long ball; fortunately, so do fantasy owners. While the usual suspects are still smacking dingers like we are used to seeing, a few other...
SOMBER RETURN FOR IS 238 KIDS
Life seemed to return to normal for the students at IS 238 in Hollis Tuesday, but the adolescents said the mood at the middle school would never be the same....
John Lithgow to Kill on 'Dexter'
As always, Simmons will catch the eye of the show's resident serial killer, Dexter Morgan (Michael C Hall). Morgan, who doubles as a blood spatter analyst in the police department...
Barcelona Wins Champions League
APBarcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 on Wednesday night to win the European Champions League in Rome for the second time in four seasons, dominating behind goals from Samuel Eto'o and...
Jay Leno Bowing Out in Style
Plug in your headphones and watch the below reel of hilarious outtakes compiled to create the "Best of the Tonight Show."Host Jay Leno and his guests star in the video,...
NEW FARE PLAN LETS STRANGERS SHARE TAXIS
This fall, passengers will be sharing their taxi rides with total strangers and a new smart meter will split up discounted fares under a sweeping one-year trial plan that promises...
EXPERTS SAY BORO WILL GROW
Though Queens is certainly hurting from the current recession, the borough has weathered the storm far better than some of its neighbors and is poised for growth, analysts and public...
QUEENS MUSLIMS, JEWS CONDEMN BRONX TEMPLE PLOT
A Jamaica imam and a Flushing rabbi stood together inside a 168th Street mosque Friday to condemn the foiled plot allegedly crafted by four upstate men â" all recent converts...
FATAL CRASH SPURS CALLS TO WIDEN SNAKE ROAD
After a major auto accident killed a popular Richmond Hill teen and his driver on the dangerous section of Brookville Boulevard known as Snake Road last week, City Councilman James...
Mike Judge Back for More Punishment
Mike Judge's new animated TV show, "The Goode Family," which is a sendup of a family of pious liberals so extreme that they force their dog, Che, to be a...
Posada catches five innings in Tampa
APTAMPA, Fla. -- Catcher Jorge Posada played five innings of defense in an extended spring training intrasquad game Wednesday and is hopeful of rejoining the team during a series that...
Report: Red Bull losing patience w/ Osorio
The Washington Post has reported that "Red Bulls upper management is losing patience with Coach Juan Carlos Osorio.'' Not really going out on a limb, what with the team 2-6-3,...
MAN BARRICADES SELF IN DUTCHESS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The Dutchess County Sheriff's office in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was evacuated and surrounding streets closed after a shot was fired in the building Wednesday. City police Capt. Steven...
BROTHER: GOSSELIN CHILDREN ARE 'BEING EXPLOITED'
Kate Gosselin's brother and sister-in-law say the eight "Jon & Kate" kids are being exploited for the sake of TLC's reality show. "I think we're speaking out now because we...
BREAKING NEWS: ADMIRALS ROW WILL COME DOWN
The city and National Guard reached an agreement to save two decrepit, yet historic, buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and destroy eight others, ending an impasse and allowing the...
DEALS: 2 nights at Wynn for $199
Not even sure this is meant for public consumption, but one of our black ops field agents has uncovered the following high-value intel: stay 2 nights at Wynn Las Vegas...
MANGINI BRINGS EX-JETS TO TEACH DEFENSE
BEREA, Ohio -- Eric Barton stood in the middle of the Cleveland Browns' defense Wednesday, flashing signals and hollering for Kamerion Wimbley to take two steps to the right. Barton's...
RBNY trades Oduro, waives Boss
picture from mattcohenphoto.com The Red Bulls have pulled the plug on the Dominic Oduro experiment, trading the 23-year-old speed demon for Houston's highest first-round SuperDraft pick next year and their...
Osi, Giants back on field
From the New York GiantsOsi Umenyiora was back on the field today for the first time since a preseason knee injury, taking part on the first day of Giants organized...
AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCE CHECK FRAUD BUST
A brazen ring of thieves enlisted crooked bank tellers to run a shockingly widespread check-fraud scheme that was brought down only when they forged checks on an NYPD account, authorities...
Mixed reviews so far for Evans with Binghamton
When Nick Evans was sent down from Triple-A Buffalo to extended spring training earlier this month, it was done to give him a chance to clear his mind before going...
YANKEES' POSADA COULD BE BACK FOR WEEKEND
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jorge Posada could rejoin the Yankees during this weekend's series in Cleveland. "That's possible," manager Joe Girardi said before last night's game against the Rangers. Posada played...
FAMILY OF WOMAN WHO DIED IN PYSCH WARD SETTLES FOR $2M
The city has agreed to pay $2 million to the family of a woman who was ignored as she lay dying on the floor of a psych ward last year....
ATTORNEY: ASTOR WANTED CHARITIES AS PRIMARY BENEFICIARY
Brooke Astor changed her wills frequently, but some things remained "sacrosanct" -- chief among them that charities, not her son, be her primary beneficiary, her former estate lawyer testified for...
Garcia continues to impress
In his second start of the season in full-season ball, Yankee prospect Christian Garcia continued to impress with Double-A Trenton Monday. Garcia went five scoreless innings and allowed two hits,...
More possible good news for Knicks
Now that's a headline we haven't seen recently.Marc Berman wrote today how a Cavaliers playoff loss to the Magic, who they trail 3-1, would improve the Knicks chances of landing...
EX-COP GETS 32-TO-LIFE FOR WIFE'S MURDER
Killer ex-cop John Galtieri had to sit and listen to his daughter describe him as a "monster" and a "coward," before a judge sentenced him to 32-years-to-life today for murdering...
REPUBLICANS WON'T BLOCK SOTOMAYOR CONFIRMATION
WASHINGTON -- The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday he doesn't foresee a filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, even though he thinks her legal philosophy...
TWITTER: NO TV SHOW
TWITTER is "not making a TV show." In an effort to stay on the Twittersphere's good side, the social networking site has washed its hands of any involvement with the...
Report: Burress would love to play for Dolphins
According to a report in the Miami Herald, Plaxico Burress has told friends that he would love to play for the Dolphins.Burress, who owns a home in the Miami area,...
Detroit - On the Movement
Who knew it was possible to get a Hamptons' quality tan on the shores of the Detroit River? Some of the 75,000 people who attended Movement last weekend learned the...
NAPLES MAFIA "WHACKED " BY ITALIAN POLICE
ROME -- Italian police arrested 61 purported members of the Naples-based Camorra mob on Wednesday for allegedly running drug and extortion rings in the southern Italian city. The suspects arrested...
RUSSIA SET TO OPEN CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION PLANT
MOSCOW -- The bland buildings in western Siberia contain shelf after shelf of nerve-gas shells - some 2 million in all. Each could kill tens of thousands of people, if...
Danny Gokey Takes Step Toward 'Dancing With the Stars'
Danny Gokey wants to prove Simon Cowell wrong. Gokey, who finished third place on this season's "American Idol," was so criticized by the judges for his dancing skills that the...
DETECTIVES INVESTIGATE TEEN GARBAGE TRUCK DEATH
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Detectives say they are still investigating a fatal garbage truck accident on the campus of Farmingdale State University. Police say 19-year-old Kaeli Sarah Kramer of Huntington was...
JUDGE: ACCUSED HARASSER MUST STAY AWAY FROM GIULIANI
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. -- A judge has issued an order of protection, instructing a Long Island filmmaker to stay away from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his wife....
Sorry About All That Hype
With Fernando Martinez making his major league debut last night, the Mets' top prospect is now here. So I decided to make a list of the biggest Met and Yankee...
LINEN CEO BEAT HIS MAID: COPS
The CEO of the nation's largest linen company went berserk and brutally beat his housemaid in his posh Upper East Side apartment -- leaving her with swelling on the brain,...
Pitching set for Marlins series
The pitching matchups are now ready for the Mets' three-game series with the reeling Marlins -- losers of 25 of their last 35 games after an 11-1 start -- that...
SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO KILLING CHANDRA LEVY
WASHINGTON -- A man serving a prison sentence for attacking women in a Washington park pleaded not guilty Wednesday to killing federal intern Chandra Levy. Twenty-seven-year-old Ingmar Guandique was arraigned...
Game 46: Nationals at Mets
(UPDATE) The patchwork Mets will be counting on Johan Santana to provide his usual magic tonight at Citi Field as they try to complete a three-game sweep of the hapless...
First Look: 'Melrose Place,' 'Vampire Diaries'
Thanks to "True Blood" and "90210," vampires and '90s TV-reincarnations are all the rage. Cue the CW's upcoming dramas, "The Vampire Diaries" and "Melrose Place."Based on the book series by...
KRIS ALLEN TO VISIT 'HUCKABEE'
"American Idol" winner Kris Allen is stopping by fellow Arkansas native Mike Huckabee's Fox News Channel show. Allen, who defeated Adam Lambert in last week's "Idol" shocker, will visit "Huckabee"...
GOV THREATENS TO IMPOSE SPENDING CAP
ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Gov. David Paterson says that if the Legislature won't even introduce his bill to cap Albany's notorious overspending, he'll impose the cap himself. The Democratic...
Fans Flood Into Rome for Champions League Final
APManchester United and Barcelona fans began to arrive in the Italian capital Tuesday before the Champions League final as Rome officials prepared a strict security plan.About 67,000 fans are expected...
RUSSIAN POLICE FIND FERAL GIRL LIVING WITH CATS, DOGS
MOSCOW - Russian police have taken into care a 5-year-old girl who has been shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs for her entire life,...
Coverage in The Post
A flurry of injury-related roster moves before the game didn't slow down the Mets on Tuesday night as they steamrolled the hapless Nationals at Citi Field. The 6-1 win featured...
Agent: Jones' return 'went well'
Running back Thomas Jones made his first appearance at the Jets' OTAs today, NJ.com reports.Jones skipped the team's voluntary workouts trying to get his four-year, $20 million contract re-worked. Jones,...
PROSECUTORS TO JUDGE: JAIL JAYSON WILLIAMS
NEWARK, N.J. -- Prosecutors on Wednesday asked a judge to sentence Jayson Williams for covering up a fatal shooting at his mansion in 2002 and cited the former NBA star's...
1 DEAD IN QUEENS FIRE
A fire in an 11-story residential building in Queens has claimed the life of one woman and injured four others. Fire officials say the blaze was reported just before 10...
SURVEY: MOST ECONOMISTS THINK END OF RECESSION IS NEAR
WASHINGTON -- More than 90 percent of economists predict the recession will end this year, although the recovery is likely to be bumpy.Livn's a Bit Easier as Manhattan Rents Fall...
N. KOREA THREATENS TO ATTACK UNITED STATES
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas' disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a...
'Juno' Meets Wes Anderson?
The first original screenplay by Dave Eggers (who also wrote the upcoming adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are") to make it to the screen is "Away We Go," which...
UNABLE TO UNLOAD DEBT, GM LIKELY FACES BANKRUPTCY
DETROIT -- A General Motors Corp. bankruptcy filing seemed inevitable after a rebellion by its bondholders forced it to withdraw on Wednesday a plan to swap bond debt for company...
LeBron on LeBrink
By MARC BERMANAs the Cavaliers steamrolled through the regular season and first two rounds of the playoffs, there was rarely a day a Knick fan wouldn't ask me what I...
The weight on Minaya
From JOEL SHERMANI surveyed several baseball executives yesterday and heard that a wide array of corner players (first, left field, right field) are available for the inevitable trade that Omar...
3 UP: MINAYA, BRAVES AND CHURCH
I have surrendered to Twitter. You can join me at nyp_joelsherman.1. I surveyed several baseball executives yesterday and heard that a wide array of corner players (first, left field, right...
WEST IS BEST
EAT your heart out, Upper East Side -- land of leaf-eating, lunching ladies leaner than bank accounts skinned by Bernie Madoff. In contrast to the demoralized dining scene north of...
ONE 'HEL' OF A RIDE FOR INDY 500 CHAMP
What a difference a month makes. In April, IndyCar Series driver Helio Castroneves was on trial for six counts of tax evasion for allegedly failing to report about $5 million...
STARR REPORT
Jess gets realJessica Simpson is shop ping a reality show playing off her recent weight battles. Simpson's show, "The Price of Beauty," would chronicle society's scrutiny of women's bodies, according...
'WIVES' OF OBAMA COUNTY
BRAVO is taking its "Real Housewives" franchise inside the Beltway next. "The Real Housewives of DC" is in development and will be "set in the influential metropolitan region of Washington,...
HAS ALL THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS
'PRESSURE Cooker" is that rare commod ity: a film with only good things to say about public schools. It's an inspirational documentary about African-American high school foodies in Philadelphia who...
'GOODE FAMILY' IS GOOD, NOT GREAT
THE Goodes are so PC, it's not funny. And I mean that literally. This new animated series from the great Mike Judge ("King of the Hill," "Beavis and Butthead") has...
FILLING LENO'S SHOES
AFTER 17 years, Jay Leno is leaving the "The Tonight Show" this week. But not everyone is crying about it. "I think Jay's departure certainly makes it more of a...
'MARATHON' SERIES RUNS OUT OF JUICE
THE first offering in the En semble Studio Theatre's "Marathon 2009 -- Series A" is titled "Trickle," which neatly describes the evening as a whole: This collection of one-acts, the...
10 MIL. SQUIRMED
ONLY one word to describe the Monday night's season premiere of "Jon & Kate Plus 8": awkward. Footage of the sextuplets celebrating their fifth birthday was spliced together with parents...
BOLD ADVICE FROM COWARD
THE success of the Broadway revival of "Blithe Spirit," led by the incomparable Angela Lansbury, shows that Noel Coward's wit and style never go out of fashion. A stage adaptation...
AL PACINO TO PLAY DR. DEATH
AL Pacino is dying to play Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The famed actor is set to play the right-to-die doctor in an HBO movie biography that could start shooting later this...
ORLANDO TOPS CAVS IN OT TO TAKE 3-1 SERIES LEAD
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Superman swooped in just in time. Dwight Howard scored 10 points in overtime and the Magic, raining down 3-pointers like a Florida thunderstorm, withstood 44 points and...
MELKY AWAITS MRI AFTER WALL CRASH
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Yankees waited 2 hours, 24 minutes for the game to start and wasted Derek Jeter's leadoff single in the first. Then it got worse for the...
MORNEAU'S HOMER CAPS BIG INNING
BASEBALL ROUNDUP Justin Morneau's three-run homer capped a five-run fifth inning for Minnesota against Boston starter Jon Lester, and the Twins beat the Red Sox, 5-2, in Minneapolis last night....
GIANT STEP? BOLDIN FIRES ROSENHAUS
The Anquan Boldin-to-the-Giants murmurs that were clearly audible a few months ago could increase in volume with yesterday's news that Boldin -- frustrated he hasn't received a new contract or...
DUSTY OUTDOOR GEAR CAN BRING MAJOR 'BUCKS'
DURING these hard economic times, you may be able to find some extra cash right in your basement or garage. You could have thousands of dollars' worth of old hunting,...
NETS SET TO BROWSE AT DRAFT CAMP
The Nets figure to get up close and personal with their draft pick in the next couple of days. Of course, they still don't know who that pick, at No....
HONDO DOUBLE-DIPPING
Hondo, still in semi-stunned disbelief about Mon day night's Rays collapse in Cleveland, paid the price last night when Roy Harvey Oswalt was unable to improve to 24-1 against the...
BAD TRIP: NBA T'S UP NUG'S JONES
DENVER -- A day later, the NBA blew the whistle on Dahntay Jones for tripping Kobe Bryant. The league assessed Denver's defensive specialist a flagrant-1 foul for sending the Lakers'...
BREAK-UP WITH NORMAN'S DAUGHTER SINKS GAME
At the start of this year, it seemed Sergio Garcia was poised to finally elevate himself into a major championship winner. He had, after all, won the 2008 Players Championship,...
SERENA 'HORRENDOUS' BUT MOVES ON
PARIS -- Serena Williams entered yesterday with a 37-0 record in the first round at Grand Slam tournaments. She also began the day with a four-match losing streak, the longest...
'BIRD' CALL SET FOR TODAY
While jockey Calvin Borel's status is still up in the air pending a decision by owner Jess Jackson on whether to run Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra in the June 6...
WIENER FOLLOWS NO-HIT GEM WITH TWO-HITTER
Jordan Wiener had a tough act to follow after making national headlines by tossing a no-hitter last Thursday, the day after burying his father, Mitchell, the Queens assistant principal who...
JASPERS SIGN CENTER MISSING HIS LEFT HAND
Barry Rohrssen, like most other college coaches, has taken risks by bringing in players who had question marks. Sometimes those question marks involve grades, sometimes they involve talent level, and...
YANKEES' POSADA COULD BE BACK FOR WEEKEND
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jorge Posada could rejoin the Yankees during this weekend's series in Cleveland. "That's possible," manager Joe Girardi said before last night's game against the Rangers. Posada, who...
PENGUINS SWEEP INTO FINALS
RALEIGH -- Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins are headed back to the Stanley Cup finals. Max Talbot had a goal and an assist to help the Penguins beat the...
SPORTS SHORTS
SOCCER: Champions final on From Cristiano Ronaldo vs. Lionel Messi to Wayne Rooney vs. Thierry Henry, this Champions League final in Rome shapes up as a classic of European club...
LIVAN HERNANDEZ THROWS COMPLETE GAME, METS WIN
There's no use pitching and moaning about the recent deluge of injuries, so just pitch, pitch, pitch. It's a formula that is starting to work just fine for the Mets....
GM MINAYA MUST FIX METS' THIN ROSTER
REMEMBER when we all wondered when (if?) Omar Minaya would break down and sign Pedro Martinez again for a teetering rotation. For the Mets, that now qualifies as the good...
MARTINEZ, 20, MAKES LONG-AWAITED DEBUT
Bobby Parnell played with Fernando Martinez at three different minor league stops. There was Binghamton, there was St. Lucie and there was Hagerstown. He saw Martinez compete at multiple levels....
REYES, CHURCH LATEST TO DL
The Mets are now beyond a group of walking wounded. Yesterday the Mets placed star shortstop Jose Reyes and semi-regular right fielder Ryan Church on the disabled list. The team's...
METS' SHEFFIELD KEEPS HITTING, BELTRAN'S LEG STILL SORE
It might take a few sticks of dynamite to remove Gary Sheffield from the lineup. The 40-year-old outfielder slugged his third homer in five games in the Mets' 6-1 victory...
YANKEES LOSE TO RANGERS AFTER DELAY, CABRERA HURT
ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Yankees waited more than two hours to start because of rain, lost their center fielder in the first inning to an injury, watched Joba Chamberlain struggle...
KID FROM BRONX REIGNS SUPREME
President Obama made history yesterday when he nominated Bronx-born federal appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court. PHOTOS: Sotomayor's LifeObama's Radical ChoiceEx-Asst. DA Thrives...
CHINA KEY TO SOLUTION
The North Korean nuclear problem is China's to solve. No other country has anything like its influence. South Korea might feel itself more directly affected by the threat of a...
PRINTLESS FINGERS POINTING AT RX
When a cancer patient from Singapore traveled to the United States last year, he discovered an unusual side effect of his medication: missing fingerprints. The 62-year-old man was taking capecitabine,...
T.I. RAPS ON PRISON DOOR
FORREST CITY, Ark. -- Rapper T.I. entered an Arkansas federal prison yesterday to begin a year-and-a-day sentence on a weapon charge. He made a concert-like entrance to the Forrest City...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan Cops arrested an Upper East Side burglar after they watched him for 2½ hours trying to break into stores and restaurants, police said yesterday. They kept Alvin Ayala under...
BIG-BIZ BUCKS BLOCK BILLS
A torrent of massive campaign contributions by corporate and industry interests is blocking five key bills in Albany that, if enacted, would have consumers cheering, an advocacy group charged yesterday....
LIVIN'S A BIT EASIER AS MANHATTAN RENTS FALL
The recession has done something no public housing policy has been able to accomplish: drive down the cost of renting a Manhattan apartment to its lowest level since at least...
JAYSON MAY HAVE FOULED OUT
Ex-NBA star Jayson Williams may have to start packing his bags for jail. New Jersey prosecutors today may ask a judge to revoke Williams' bail because of his arrest Monday...
STAR-BLAST UNRELATED TO OTHERS
Investigators strongly doubt the blast that rocked an Upper East Side Starbucks is connected to earlier ones outside the Times Square military recruitment station and two consulates, sources said. They...
REAL NYERS 'MALLED' BY INCREDIBLY DUMB IDEA
IN THE annals of stupid ideas, this has got to be the worst. Ever. Yesterday, as New Yorkers dragged themselves back to work, they found cheap beach chairs thrown into...
PREZ GETS A LIBERAL DOSE OF DEM DURBIN
WHISPERING in President Obama's ear is one of the most ruthlessly effective masters of identity politics in America -- and the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the high court...
HISTORIC SELECTION FILLS LATINOS WITH PRIDE
The words "ecstatic" and "proud" resounded through the Big Apple's Hispanic community yesterday after Sonia Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court. But Latin leaders said they expect the confirmation...
RAPE AKIN TO IMETTE'S
A Japanese student abducted and raped in an attack eerily similar to the murder of Imette St. Guillen glared at the alleged killer in a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday and calmly...
GROWING HOPE FOR BALDIES
Researchers in Japan have identified a gene that could be responsible for hair loss in humans. In genetic experiments on mice, the scientists created "mutant" rodents that lacked Sox21 --...
NY HOME PRICES DOWN 12%
Housing prices continued to plummet across the New York metropolitan area, where single-family homes fetched, on average, 12 percent less in March than a year ago. LIVIN'S A BIT EASIER...
GOP'S DANGEROUS BENCH PRESS
WASHINGTON -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor's compelling personal story and Hispanic heritage won't insulate her from tough questioning and a careful vetting of her record, Republican senators and outside experts said...
BIG GAP IN MTA SAFETY
Please stand clear of the yellow line. The MTA botched its inspections of the yellow strips that run along the edges of subway platforms -- placing straphangers at risk of...
BOOS FOR CHAIRS IN TIMES SQ.
Welcome to Times Chair: the crossed legs of the world. The $15 beach chairs that have displaced Broadway's hustle and buses are too cheesy and flimsy for the city that...
HAMPTONS HIGH LIFE
A Hamptons bouncer got his job half-right by taking ecstasy and cocaine out of clubgoers' hands -- only to turn around and sell the drugs to other customers, police said....
HARVARD CELL CLUES
Some Harvard students may have more than end-of-year exams to worry about -- cops are rifling through the cellphone records of a murdered local drug dealer to uncover customers' names....
LIFE OF TRUTH & JUSTICE
Some little girls want to be princesses when they grow up -- but not Sonia Sotomayor. She dreamed of solving mysteries like her hero Nancy Drew. But after the little...
EX-ASSISTANT DA THRIVES IN HEAT OF LEGAL BATTLES
With her sharp mind, scrupulous research habits and no-nonsense manner, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will heat up -- in a legal sense -- the nation's high court, lawyers and...
CITY'S SWINE FLU DEATH TOLL HITS 4
Two more New Yorkers who contracted swine flu have died -- bringing the number of city deaths from the virus to four, officials said yesterday. The Department of Health would...
JACKMAN, CRAIG TO TAKE B'WAY BY STORM
Here come the hunks! Daniel Craig, a k a James Bond, and Hugh Jackman, aka Wolverine, will team up in a new play this fall on Broadway, The Post has...
CITY ACES ITS ROAD TEST
Shutting down Broadway to cars passed its first major test yesterday, with traffic flowing smoothly out of the city during the usually horrific rush hour. Drivers cruised down Ninth and...
ASTOR SON'S LAWYER WILL SPILL BEAN$
Poor Brooke Astor was laying in her bed in her nightie, recovering from a broken hip, when her allegedly swindling son put the squeeze on his 101-year-old mom to sign...
CASINO MELTS CON MAN'S FROZEN ASSETS
An Atlantic City casino somehow extracted nearly $50,000 from a frozen bank account to cover bad bets by the ringleader of a $200 million subprime mortgage scam, court papers reveal....
'PA BASH' TEEN BUST
An enraged Staten Island teen used a shovel to brutally beat his father into a coma after the older man hassled him about staying out late, authorities said yesterday. The...
PRINCE OF THE CITI
That Harry is a real Prince. The young British royal is taking a disabled Afghan-war soldier with him on his first official visit to the United States this week --...
IRON MIKE GRIEVES AS GIRL DIES
PHOENIX -- Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter, who had been on life support since getting her neck tangled in an electrical cord Monday, has died. The shattered former boxing champ and...
POL DEVOURS SEAL
RANKIN INLET, Nunavut -- Canada's governor general ate a part of a slaughtered seal's raw heart in a show of support to the nation's seal hunters, a display that a...
KERIK FACES NEW LIE RAPS
Disgraced former top cop Bernard Kerik was indicted in Washington, DC, yesterday on federal charges that he lied to the White House during his brief bid to head the Department...
GOV'S ETHICS REFORM KAPUT
ALBANY -- Legislative leaders were privately calling Gov. Paterson's hastily prepared ethics-reform proposal dead on arrival yesterday after the Democratic governor failed to consult with them on the plan. Most...
WEINER: COUNT ME OUT OF RACE FOR MAYOR
Rep. Anthony Weiner told supporters last night that he's officially pulling the plug on his mayoral campaign, according to Democratic sources. "He is out for sure," said an elected official....
'KOREAN WAR' THREAT
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea, facing international sanctions for Monday's nuclear test, threatened today to attack the South after Seoul joined a US-led initiative to check vessels suspected of...
'FRAUD RING' IN CHECK
A brazen group of thieves enlisted crooked bank tellers to run a shockingly widespread check-fraud scheme that was brought down only when they forged checks on an NYPD account, The...
SILVER BARES PLAN TO KEEP MAYOR AT SCHOOLS' HELM
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver last night unveiled a proposal preserving mayoral control over the city's schools. The plan was outlined for Assembly Democrats during a closed-door meeting to discuss renewal...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
Check out those gams! Dozens of men put their best foot forward, walking a mile in ladies' high-heeled shoes to protest violence against women. The walk in Camp Hill, Pa.,...
OUT OF RETIREMENT: CHENEY'S WAR ON TERROR
THE ISSUE: Speeches given last week by Pres. Obama and Dick Cheney on national security. *** Rich Lowry aptly frames the major question facing America today. How does a nation...
BEYOND THE LAW
IT was a historic day when President Obama announced his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. No president had ever nominated a Hispanic woman. Nor had a...
THE JOB-KILLERS ALBANY MUST AVOID
ALBANY lawmakers apparently aren't satisfied with passing a budget that raises many taxes, discourag ing investment in New York. They are also consid ering a number of proposals advanced by...
TWITTER FOUNDERS TWEAK POSSIBLE SALE RUMORS
CARLSBAD, Calif -- Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, speaking during a wide-ranging discussion on the opening night of the D conference, last night said they are in for...
NORTH KOREAN NUKES: O'S KICK IN THE TEETH
A North Korean nuclear- weapons test, taken in iso lation, is bad enough. But put into a wider context, the underground blast over the Memorial Day weekend is worse than...
SANTANDER SETTLES ON MADOFF CLAIMS
Banco Santander, Spain's biggest bank, agreed to pay $235 million to the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's defunct money-management firm to settle claims related to Madoff investments by two of its...
PROF SUED FOR FOREIGN EXCHANGE FRAUD
US regulators sued a Texas A&M University finance professor and a business partner over claims they used forged bank records to make it appear they reaped annual returns exceeding 20...
FACEBOOK RAISES RUBLES
Call Mark Zuckerberg the $10 billion boy. The baby-faced genius behind popular social-networking Web site Facebook raised an additional $200 million from a Russian investment firm that puts his company's...
CUBAN ASKS FOR DISMISSAL
A lawyer for Mark Cuban urged a federal judge to throw out the US Securities and Exchange Commission's insider-trading lawsuit against the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks. The SEC's...
WORLDWIDE PLAZA IS ON BLOCK
THE contest to take over the management, leasing and ownership of Worldwide Plaza is back on the front burner. This last piece of the Equity Office Properties portfolio, whose $7.1...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Bankers' $$ Bank of America and Citigroup are expected to soon raise base sala ries for investment bankers to compensate for limits on annual bonuses and retain key employees, in...
CONSUMER DATA LIFTS MARKETS
US stocks rallied, sending major indexes higher for the first time in five days, as the biggest jump in consumer confidence since 2003 spurred optimism the worst of the recession...
PROXY ADVISERS CALL FOR SAKS TO SHAKE UP BOARD
The pressure on luxury retailer Saks' board increased, as two proxy advisers threw their weight behind an investor who is plotting a shakeup. RiskMetrics -- typically the most influential proxy...
ACKMAN: I'M STAYING, NOW GET ME A CHAIR
Looking to blunt charges that his proxy battle against Target is all about a quick buck, hedge-fund tycoon Bill Ackman said he will keep his personal investment in the "cheap...
GM DEAL'S MECHANICS
"Governnent" Motors is taking a step closer to reality. As part of a new strategy to help pull the hobbled carmaker out of financial ruin, Uncle Sam could end up...
FEDS RETURN TO THE SOURCE
THE pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that Automobile and Motor Trend publisher Source Interlink Cos. filed late last month has hit a few speed bumps. Apparently, Uncle Sam, in the...
TESTING OBAMA
Commander-in-Chief Obama this week had tough words for North Korea -- flatly declaring its second-ever nuclear-warhead test Monday as "a blatant violation of international law" and vowing to "take action"...
SOTOMAYOR TO THE COURT
President Obama yesterday nominated New York's own Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to the United States Supreme Court. Once confirmed, she will join Ruth Bader Ginsburg...
JUDGE TO INDIANA PENSION FUNDS: NO MOTION
Indiana pension funds who say Chrysler isn't treating their claims fairly failed to persuade a federal district judge to take control of the automaker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. US District Judge...
TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE TAKES A HUGE Q2 HIT
Take-Two Interactive Software reported a second-quarter loss after the video-game maker's sales failed to match revenue from last year's "Grand Theft Auto." Results this quarter will trail analysts' projections. The...
CITIGROUP CARDS' WEAK HAND
Moody's Investors Service warned that Citigroup Inc.'s credit-card business will likely need further capital injections from its parent company because of large losses. Additionally, Moody's expects earnings for the operations,...
REPORTS: NKOREA TESTS MISSILES, STARTS NUKE PLANT
North Korea has restarted its weapons-grade nuclear power plant and fired off its sixth short-range missile, news reports said Wednesday, deepening a standoff with world powers following its latest nuclear...
HERNANDEZ GOES THE DISTANCE, METS BEAT NATIONALS 6-1
Livan Hernandez shut down Ryan Zimmerman and the Nationals, pitching the New York Mets' first complete game of the season Tuesday night in a 6-1 win over Washington.METS BLOGBOX SCORE...
Champions League: A Messi Debate
So, who's the better player: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?Ronaldo has the official title after FIFA and UEFA bestowed it upon him last December when his eye-popping 42 league and...