March 29, 2010
Paterson: NY to apply for 2nd round of ed grants
Gov. David Paterson said today he wasn't surprised that New York missed out on up to $700 million in federal education grants, but he believes the Legislature can act to...
NYC girls basketball rankings
It’s all over. Christ the King finished the season in style by knocking off archrival Murry Bergtraum and Sachem East (L.I.) for its first New York State Federation Class AA...
Yankees' Teixeira leaves game with elbow contusion
SARASOTA , Fla. -- Mark Teixeira chilled the Yankees’ marrow when he left tonight’s game against the Orioles in the second inning after taking a Jeremy Guthrie pitch on the...
PSAL softball rankings
After just one week of PSAL softball, it’s spring break time – pretty difficult to build any momentum. But most teams will be playing non-league games and scrimmages to keep...
Hamlin wins NASCAR race at Martinsville
MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Denny Hamlin and crew chief Mike Ford were in a tough spot, leading a race with a dominant car and eight laps to go when a caution...
Duke now favored to win NCAA title
LAS VEGAS -- Oddsmakers say Duke is the favorite among the Final Four to win the NCAA title and Michigan State is a long shot despite its trip to the...
Youths to Sen. Adams — keep your hands off my pants!
When it comes to wearing your pants, no one should tell you how low you can go.So said high school students on Wednesday as they bashed state Sen. Eric Adams’s...
Seton Hall names Willard, Donovan coaches
In becoming the basketball coach at Seton Hall, Kevin Willard has taken on two jobs. The first is to guide the Pirates to the next level in the Big East...
Group working to change charter cap laws
The news of the omission of New York from the Race to the Top winners today brought a statement from a newly-formed coalition - under the umbrella of Education Reform...
CHSAA softball rankings
With the weather getting warmer, CHSAA softball is about to heat up. The Staten Island and Bronx/Westchester divisions have already gotten underway and Brooklyn/Queens gets started with Bishop Kearney vs....
Mets' Escobar back to throwing
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Kelvim Escobar, who is in Mets camp on a minor-league deal, threw Monday morning for the first time since early March when he was shut down...
Apple is developing two new iPhones, one may be for Verizon
Apple Inc. is developing a new iPhone to debut this summer and also appears to be working on a model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless, The Wall Street...
Ex-LI legislator Blakeman gets enough support for GOP primary
Former Long Island legislator Bruce Blakeman — who was the first of the GOP Senate hopefuls to jump in the race for Kirsten Gillibrand’s seat — today became the first...
In mounting challenge, Carroll bucks Perfetto
He’s got $12,000 and a dream.Bay Ridge resident and would-be politico Kevin Peter Carroll has raised a considerable amount of cash to kick off his first-ever campaign — against Ralph...
Formet Met Milledge growing up with Pirates
Some major league players find role models in their father, a high school coach or a favorite uncle. Pirates outfielder Lastings Milledge discovered his in teammate Andrew McCutchen. Milledge, a...
Mets' Niese hit at plate, not on mound vs. Marlins
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Pitcher Jonathon Niese hit a two-run double and the Mets tagged Anibal Sanchez, beating the Florida Marlins 7-6 Monday. Niese, who’s been competing for the fifth...
Olympic sprinter Johnson chats with Yankees about repeating
Four-time Olympic gold medal sprinter Michael Johnson knows all about repeating a championship. The World Series champion Yankees got to hear about the mental aspect of that process from the...
Defending NCAA champs look to win NIT
This isn’t where Marcus Ginyard expected to end his career when he signed a letter of intent with North Carolina four years ago. He expected to be playing in the...
NYC to set record rainfall totals for March
The latest batch of heavy rains in the New York City area flooded roads and basements and was in position to set a rainfall record, but some officials on Monday...
Dodgers owner offers wife $150K in spousal support
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt on Monday offered his estranged wife $150,000 a month in temporary spousal support during a hearing in a bitter divorce case...
Sin City spots to avoid
PURE Once big and vital, now it’s just big and unnecessary. Compared to the city’s other mega-clubs, this Caesars Palace spot is a boring room with a cramped dance floor...
5 must-hit clubs in Vegas
SEXIER, more over-the-top and more accessible than what you’ll find in New York, Los Angeles or Miami, nightlife in Vegas is a party like no other, busted economy or no....
Changes coming to 'So You Think You Can Dance'
LOS ANGELES — "So You Think You Can Dance" is getting some new moves.The Fox network said Monday that multiple changes are planned for the dance competition's upcoming seventh season.The...
Toronto to host 2010 MLS Cup
Major League Soccer will put to bed several weeks of rumors tomorrow when it is announced that November’s MLS Cup will be played in Toronto. MLS commissioner Don Garber, as...
Roethlisberger absent for start of Steelers workouts
PITTSBURGH -- Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, accused of assaulting a female college student in Georgia, did not report to the team's offseason workouts. Team spokesman Dave Lockett said Roethlisberger will...
Former Woods girlfriend plans to be in Augusta for Tiger's return
Tiger Woods better watch his back in Augusta.Tiger's former mistress, Joslyn James, said she plans to be at The Masters in Augusta next month when Woods makes his much anticipated...
Els holds on for win at Bay Hill
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Ernie Els made two clutch par putts, escaped trouble from a buried lie in the bunker and wound up wearing a blue blazer Monday for winning the...
Norah Jones Windowgate controversy highlights neighbors' new window plan
There’s a new chapter in the Norah Jones’ Windowgate saga in Cobble Hill.The sultry Grammy winner’s next-door neighbors -- who fought unsuccessfully to keep the singer from adding side windows...
Recruiting class should keep Syracuse near top
SYRACUSE -- Jim Boeheim heads into the offseason facing a tall task — replacing the leaders that helped Syracuse to one of its best seasons in school history. Led by...
UFC Undisputed 2010: As real as it gets
For those who can never seem to satisfy their craving for the UFC by simply watching on television, THQ and the UFC have joined forces once again to create what...
Clemens delivered no fireworks in the bedroom, McCready claims in sex tape
Looks like "The Rocket" fizzed out when it came to performing in the bedroom. Roger Clemens' ex-girlfriend, country crooner Mindy McCready, said the former Yankees pitcher' had "problems" with erectile...
Levy grazed by gun question
Steve Levy got caught in a gun trap on "Keeler in the Morning" earlier today, saying he supported the rights of families to protect themselves but then got tripped up...
Back acts up on Yankees' Aceves, could miss opener
TAMPA -- Alfredo Aceves’ tender back is hurting again, and this time it could jeopardize his chances of starting the season in the Yankees’ bullpen.The valuable right-hander will not pitch...
Yankees ambidextrous pitcher will face major-league batters
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Joe Girardi wanted a look at switch-pitcher Pat Venditte at some point this spring. Tomorrow against the Braves may be the day.“I wanted to see it all...
Levy rips Lazio's poor campaign -- in 2000 interview
Steve Levy went there - back to 2000 - in an interview with an upstate radio station this morning, saying Rick Lazio lost to Hillary Rodham Clinton because he was...
Partial building collapse in Brooklyn injures 3 construction workers
A Brooklyn building partially collapsed onto three construction workers this afternoon, leaving one hardhat up to his neck in rubble and fighting for his life. The four-story building at 34...
Extra time for 'Lunch'
The Italian comedy "Mid-August Lunch'' has done so well at the Film Forum box office that the downtown movie house is extending the run through April 13. Directed by and...
Curry's torn calf latest cloud to depressing Knicks season
SALT LAKE CITY – The weather is beautiful, warm and sunny here in Salt Lake City just like the weather was beautiful, sunny and warm in Phoenix.But there is only...
Witness says he saw LI teen stab immigrant in brazen hate-crime attack
One of the four Long Island teens who admitted being involved in the brutal stabbing death of Marcelo Lucero described how his buddy killed an Ecuadorian immigrant as part of...
Knicks' Curry done for season with torn calf
SALT LAKE CITY -- The nightmare Eddy Curry saga took an even darker turn when the Knicks' maligned center revealed he has something torn in his calf that will take...
Bottom of the barrel relations
John Bolton was part of the Bush administration so no one would expect his analysis of the “other guy’s” foreign policy to be especially positive. And indeed, Bolton sees Obama’s...
S. Korean warship that sank may have been struck by mine
SEOUL, South Korea -- A naval mine dispatched from North Korea may have struck the South Korean warship that exploded and sank near the Koreas' disputed sea border, the defense...
Reyes takes live batting practice for first time since thyroid issue
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Jose Reyes today took his best cuts in a month.The Mets shortstop faced live pitching for the first time since returning from an overactive thyroid, taking...
Cabbie admits he caused college student's death
It was a seizure after all. After four years of denying blame, an off-his-meds epileptic cabbie Hassan Afzal today admitted in a Manhattan courtroom that he caused the death of...
Accused Brooklyn mobster denied bail
The Colombo crime family's favorite son, Michael Persico, might be a "gentle, peaceable man" in his lawyer's eyes -- but a Brooklyn federal judge saw him a little differently this...
Three Nets games won't make it to TV
The Nets have become too bad for TV. The YES Network will not be airing three Nets games next week because of conflicts with the Yankees. In past years, YES...
Nets on the New Boss To Be...And Homer
Devin Harris didn't have sound. And Brook Lopez couldn’t tune out the only show he watches faithfully. So while many Nets were watching last night's "60 Minutes" to see the...
9 teens charged with bullying teen who killed herself after being raped
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — Insults and threats followed 15-year-old Phoebe Prince almost from her first day at South Hadley High School, targeting the Irish immigrant in the halls, library and in...
June Havoc, immortalized in 'Gypsy,' dies at 97
Actress and writer June Havoc, whose childhood in vaudeville as Baby June was immortalized in the musical "Gypsy," has died in Connecticut at age 97, her publicist said Monday. Havoc,...
RNC runs up $2,000 tab at bondage-themed club in LA
WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is taking his calls to build a “big tent” party seriously – with the RNC running up a nearly $2,000 tab at...
Apple expected to ship more than 6 million iPads this year
Apple’s iPad hasn’t even hit the market yet, but the device’s suppliers are already raising their build rates in expectation of strong sales, thanks to encouraging pre-order rates, AllThingsDigital reported...
Mets starters not worried about spring training struggles
Mets starting pitchers have a come up with a March mantra: It’s only spring training. After every poor performance, there has been some variation of that statement coming from a...
'Dragon' proves toothless for DreamWorks animation
Entertainment companies are so diversified that one single movie doesn't make that much difference to its bottom line -- usually. But DreamWorks Animation is such a small company, with so...
Paladino mocks Cox, Levy in 'Titanic' poster
Carl Paladino, the Buffalo real estate developer whose style -- and bank account -- are making some ripples as he makes a play for the Republican nomination, is out with...
Read my lips!
There’s been a lot of buzz on the ladyblogs about a new lip gloss on the market that claims to be "emotionally activated" – i.e., one that changes shades with...
Sacred ground
I often walk by the Times Square Church on W. 51st Street (just west of Broadway) on the way to work, and wonder why there is no plaque outside indicating...
'Freakonomics' to close Tribeca Film Festival
"Freakonomics," a documentary based on the best-selling nonfiction book, will close the Tribeca Film Festival. The movie is based on the 2005 book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. It's...
Levy hires Faso veteran as top flack
Steve Levy is continuing to ramp up his effort, hiring a John Faso veteran as his communications director. Josh HIlls was Faso's communications director during his uphill fight for governor...
Christian militia members charged with plot to kill police officers
DETROIT — Nine suspects tied to a Midwest Christian militia that was preparing for the Antichrist were charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral using homemade...
DVD Extra: '39 'Cat and Canary' coming
Universal has finally cleared the U.S. video rights to Elliot Nugent's elusive "The Cat and the Canary,'' the 1939 movie that made Bob Hope a star, and it will premiere on...
For Sandra Bullock, you can't go home again
Actress Sandra Bullock will reportedly not be returning to the home she shared with cheating hubby Jesse James while he is still there. Bullock, who has remained in relative seclusion...
Cannes: Here's the 2010 Poster!
The Cannes Film Festival today unveiled this year's official poster with Juliette Binoche, photographed by Brigitte Lacombe. The lineup will be announced on April 15.
Serie A: Roma just a point behind league leaders Inter
It was another exciting weekend in Serie A after Roma sliced Inter’s lead at the top of the standings to just one point following a critical 2-1 victory Saturday against...
Brutal fight filmed outside Penn Station (video)
People are flocking to a video on YouTube of a brutal fight outside Penn Station. In the 25-second video, which supposedly happened on March 27, one man with a stick...
LAPD worried about Lindsay Lohan's mental health: report
A lot of people are worried about Lindsay Lohan's health -- even the Los Angeles police! Lohan's family and close friends aren't the only ones concerned about the troubled starlet...
TCM apologizes for airing ad
Turner Classic Movies today issued an apology for airing a commercial last night. "TCM fans: Many of you have asked about a Toyota ad that appeared on the network last night,''...
MTA beefs up security after Moscow subway blasts
Major transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday following the suicide bombing in Moscow’s subway system. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority had a “heightened security presence,” said spokesman...
Treasury to sell Citigroup shares, could profit $7.5B
The Treasury Department said Monday it will begin selling the stake it owns in Citigroup Inc., which could result in a profit to the government of about $7.5 billion. The...
Donovan leaving Liberty after season to coach Seton Hall women
Anne Donovan is leaving the Liberty after the upcoming WNBA season to become the women’s basketball coach at Seton Hall. The Big East university confirmed the hiring on Monday, noting...
It's a 'Shore' thing! Boosters back landmarking Coney theater
Advocates of landmarking a decrepit, 90-year-old Coney Island theater are pushing ahead whether the building’s owner is on board or not.The Shore Theater at Surf and Stillwell avenues has been...
The First Lady with the best pizza!
First Lady Michelle Obama and the First Kids downed three pies at DUMBO’s legendary Grimaldi’s Pizzeria today — and impressed even their jaded waiter.“It was great! It is an honor,”...
Porn star posts picture of hotel room key
Porn star Joslyn James is out to make the most of her fling with Tiger Woods.Late last week, she promised to post photos, presumably of her affair with Woods, on...
3UP: A-Rod, Yankees Rotation Depth, Mejia
1. In today’s Post , I wrote a column trying – for one day anyway – to block out off-the-field issues with Alex Rodriguez and just concentrate on what a...
Worries for the fall
Whites are fleeing the Democratic Party
Of bricks and extremism
Violence against the GOP but will the national media notice?
Flirting with budget disaster
Following passage of health care reform, President Obama is making a “hard pivot” to other matters like Afghanistan, Russia and the economy. Ah, the economy. Perhaps before celebrating again with...
Worthwhile 13 hours?
President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan. Since coming into office, Obama has taken ownership of the war, tripling the size of US forces fighting the Taliban and al...
Curry points the way to title for Christ the King
GLENS FALLS -- T.J. Curry listened to Boys & Girls make bold predictions. He heard the reason: Corey Edwards, who torched the Kangaroos for 25 points in the first meeting,...
Krzyzewski, Duke restore order
HOUSTON — At the end, there was the usual flurry of last-second desperation shots, and then a horn that cut through the Reliant Stadium silence, freezing for good the numbers...
North Brooklyn in running to become test subject for Google superspeed Internet service
North Brooklyn is one of about 600 communities across the nation vying to become the trial site for an ultra-high speed broadband network by Google that would provide Internet service...
Nets future owner Mikhail Prokhorov on '60 Minutes'
Since the news broke that Mikhail Prokhorov is set to own the Nets, the Russian billionaire has been as quiet as a cat, staunchly avoiding discussing his soon-to-be team the...
Chill factor
Top music downloads 1. TiK ToK, Kesha 2. Bad Romance, Lady Gaga 3. How Low Can You Go, Ludacris 4. Hard, Rihanna 5. Tie Me Down, New Boyz 6. Say...
Pulse sales
CATHERINE ANGIEL 43 Greenwich Ave., between Sixth and Seventh avenues; 212-924-4314 Sale: until April 5. Mon.-Sat., noon-7 p.m./Sun., noon-6 p.m.Up to 50 percent off jewelry. BEN SHERMAN 96 Spring St.,...
The ways of the office bathroom
Some people call the bathroom their “second office,” but in the workplace, New Yorkers seem to do everything besides their business once they enter the porcelain palace. Judging by the...
Go to Greg
Q I interviewed for a software job I have a good chance of getting. One of the HR guys tipped me off that the pay would be about $37,000. I...
60 seconds with Ellen Leikind
In your book and corporate programs, you argue that women can learn career lessons from playing poker. What does it teach? Poker is really a game about aggression. Women tend...
Into the void
At a dinner party a few weeks ago, a friend confided she was soon to be laid off from a job she loved, at a company where she’d worked for...
Bensonhurst man cracks the da Vinci code!
Look, the Mona Lisa’s great, but Leonardo da Vinci got her all wrong.That’s at least what Melchiorre Martino claims. The 79-year-old Bensonhurst retiree says that he’s improved on da Vinci’s...
'L&O' star's 'stalk' nightmare
The female star of TV's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" has found herself in the middle of a real-life crime drama, The Post has learned. Kathryn Erbe -- the honey-blonde...
Dave smells a 'Rat'vitch
Gov. Paterson has concluded that Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch is a "double agent" working for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and against his own efforts to cut the state's projected $9.5...
GOP 'health' scare
Republicans around the country are in danger of blowing their November edge if they keep up with "kill the bill" tactics and rhetoric over health care in the coming weeks,...
Fired over kosher clash: suit
This is not the kosher way to let your people go. Lordia Rudd says she was fired from her office- manager job at a Bronx rabbinical school after complaining she...
13 guards hurt in Rikers inmates 'attack'
More than a dozen Rikers guards were hurt in a wild jailhouse brawl triggered by the refusal of some prisoners to go back into their cells. Correction Department spokesman Stephen...
'Room' for everybody
ALBANY -- Assembly Democrats have quietly advanced sweeping legislation -- already being called the "Rubber Rooms for All Act" -- to extend tenure-like job protection to all public workers, countering...
Prez ripped on 'sneaky' pick
WASHINGTON -- Republicans cried foul yesterday as President Obama sneaked in an appointment of a union loyalist to the National Labor Relations Board -- among 15 federal posts he filled...
Chinese buy Volvo for $1.8B
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group signed a binding deal yesterday to buy Ford Motor Co.'s Volvo Cars unit for $1.8 billion, representing a coup for the independent Chinese automaker, which is...
'Dragon' slays 'Alice' at weekend box office
"How to Train Your Dragon" was the hottest movie this weekend, opening with $43.3 million in sales and knocking "Alice in Wonderland" down the hole to No. 2 on the...
JPMorgan 'chase' story in UK
A London-based precious-metals trader who had accused JPMorgan Chase of manipulating the gold and silver markets was involved in a bizarre weekend car accident that triggered a police chase before...
MGM creditors grow tired of the script
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ability to sell itself and avoid bankruptcy looks more in doubt as at least some creditors grow tired of giving the venerable studio more time to dig itself out...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan A woman was found dead under suspicious circumstances yesterday in her Lower East Side apartment. Nancy Cruz, 49, was discovered with head injuries in the Baruch Houses apartment after...
Private att'ys play defen$e
Who you callin' a fat cat? Threatened by proposed city cost cutting, 1,100 private attorneys who handle criminal cases involving indigent defendants insist they're a bargain compared with the nonprofits...
NYU vs. Village green
As NYU prepares to unveil an enormous plan to vastly expand its campus in Greenwich Village, longtime residents are warning the university to tread lightly while carving up their neighborhood's...
Kudos on coverage for adults under 26
WASHINGTON -- It wasn't anywhere near the center of the contentious health-care debate, but a provision letting parents keep their children on their own health plans until age 26 is...
Sarkozy, wife look very together in New York
France's first couple canoodles in Central Park yesterday, trying to silence gossip that their love is on the rocks. President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy -- both rumored recently...
Michelle McGee's dad says daughter shocked to see Sandra and Jesse at Oscars -- together
The other woman was hit from "The Blind Side." Michelle "Bombshell" McGee realized that her boyfriend, Jesse James, was still with his wife, Sandra Bullock, only after spotting the couple...
Fannie & Freddie: The biggest bailout
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac recently announced fresh losses, bringing their total since the fall of 2008 to $126 billion. It barely registered as news -- although taxpayers are completely...
Lake hunt for sheik
Rescuers were searching a Moroccan hillside lake for the boss of the world's largest sovereign fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, two days after his plane crashed into it. The...
City hopes Cyclone helps Coney rise
Coney Island's Cyclone reopened for business yesterday -- with its biggest booster content to watch from the sidelines. "I don't go on rides, not when I was a kid and...
Shirley Chisholm site
Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress and the first African American to seek a major party's presidential nomination. In honor of Women's History Month, Barbara Winslow...
Pulling Arab strings
Arab leaders were mostly tending to yesterday's news (Israel) during their week end summit in Sirte, Libya -- but today's main issue (Iran) kept creeping in. Sure, on the surface...
Gov: Shel's 'snark' off mark
ALBANY -- Gov. Paterson scolded Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday for being too quick with the "snark" and too slow to act as state leaders bickered their way to the...
O needs Dustbuster
If you're trying to find dirt on President Obama, look no further than his suit. The usually immaculately dressed chief executive was covered in dust yesterday as he visited the...
NYPD parking tix on decline
Cops are slapping drivers with fewer parking tickets. Summonses issued by the NYPD citywide dropped nearly 11 percent in the first 3½ months of the year, according to department statistics....
'Petty woman' up to old tricks: 2nd 'conned' man
The redheaded, big-chested call girl accused of conning a Manhattan real-estate developer out of more than $100,000 had done it before, a second ex-fiancé told The Post. Robert Brot, 57,...
Bam makes a surprise Afghan trip
WASHINGTON -- President Obama made a surprise visit yesterday to Afghanistan, where he thanked US troops for waging the war on terror and pressed Afghan President Hamid Karzai to weed...
Pain for crane man
The city yesterday lowered the boom on the operator it says left a construction crane in a dangerously extended position Saturday night before it crashed into a lower Manhattan building....
Property-tax crush: Made in Albany
The good news for taxpayers in most of New York is that you can lower your property taxes this year by voting "no" on your local school budget. The bad...
FDNY No. 2 to pull in $242G a year pension
He's the FDNY's pension king. The second-in-command of the FDNY has retired on a tax-free disability pension worth an estimated $242,000 annually for the rest of his life -- the...
MTA budget blues: Off-track management
* For at least the last 12 years, the MTA board has been going from financial crisis to financial crisis, always crying "deficit," especially during contract-negotiation years ("Runaway Money Train,"...
Crash kills Harlem cop
An NYPD cop was killed in a car crash in the Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant. Raphy Hidalgo, 28, died at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday following the accident on...
Feds launch militia raids
ADRIAN, Mich. -- FBI agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people. A militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least...
Bronx baby beaten to death; dad questioned
A Bronx baby died of a horrific head-bashing, and her father was being questioned last night, police said. Cops found 9-month-old Neveah Jackson unconscious at 11:11 p.m. Saturday after responding...
A dubious WTC deal
The "agreement" between the Port Authority and Larry Silverstein announced last week comes down to this: The new World Trade Center will be a mere shadow of the original in...
West Side art of the seal
Talk about piling on the cute! This little seal took an out-of-water breather yesterday, checking out waterfront property on the Upper West Side. An alert shutterbug snapped the adorable marine...
Archbishop Dolan compares pope abuse flap to torment of Jesus
The pope is being crucified over untrue allegations that he condoned the acts of pedophile priests, Archbishop Timothy Dolan told worshippers in St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday. The charges being hurled...
E. Flatbush is rail far
You can go places from East Flatbush -- it's just going to take a little bit longer. The latest numbers for commuting times in every neighborhood are out, and the...
Jell-O, no! LI geezer duo busted
The proof was in the pudding. An elderly Long Island husband and wife were busted yesterday for tampering with boxes of Jell-O pudding -- replacing the contents with sand and...
Harlem tots wander off
Two adventurous Harlem tykes wandered away from their apartment, touching off a frantic three-hour search before they were found only blocks away. Anas, 4, and his little sister, Rawda, 2,...
A grim sign for ObamaCare
How ironic that, even as the Senate last week debated the reconciliation "fixes" to ObamaCare, word came that Social Security has reached the so-called tipping point -- years ahead of...
'Breakthrough' baloney
After 8½ years of Ground Zero stagna tion, here's what officials now call "progress": Thursday, they struck a deal to stave off a complete collapse of the rebuilding plans. At...
Jackp-OT at the PA
Sky-high police overtime and pensions have turned the Port Authority into the Pork Authority. One of its police lieutenants retired last year with a $196,767 pension -- even though his...
At least 38 killed, 65 injured in Moscow subway bombings
MOSCOW -- Female suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday in twin attacks on Moscow subway stations packed with rush-hour passengers, killing at least 38 people and wounding more than 60,...
Two friends fatally stabbed aboard No. 2 train
Pals heading home from a Midtown nightclub yesterday tossed their trash out a subway door, setting off a senseless slashing rampage that left two of them dead -- and added...
Dental clinics recruit Medicaid patients off the streets with promises of cash
Dentists are using hawkers on the streets of Harlem to lure Medicaid cardholders to their clinics with promises of cash, The Post has learned. The practice is illegal and often...
Power co. to fight refunds
National Grid executives vow they'll never pay back the $157 million they're accused of taking from millions of Con Ed and upstate electricity customers in a complex price-fixing scheme. The...
Tablet journalism
With holy week for gadget geeks upon us (Apple's latest entry arrives in stores on Saturday), it's time to find out if the new buzz-bomb is more iFad than iPad....
Shack of cash
If RadioShack becomes the target of a buyout, its penny-pinching CEO will pocket a big payout. As reported exclusively last week by The Post, the Texas-based electronics chain is exploring...
Druggist nabbed in Rx 'scam'
It was an under-the-counter bust. An NYPD sting has netted a Harlem pharmacist accused of filing $21,000 in bogus Medicaid claims for pricey prescription drugs used to fight AIDS, mental...
UFC's Carwin shows 'heavy' mettle
There's an old adage that goes something like, "as goes the heavyweight division, so goes boxing." If that also applies to the UFC, then mixed martial arts is flourishing. When...
Mets' Pelfrey needs to add mental toughness
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Mike Pel frey better start finding answers to his problems. Here's a tip. Don't be afraid to pitch inside. The Cardinals bashed Pelfrey all over Digital...
Rangers need Gaborik to be a star again
Where's Gabby? It's difficult to know what is more troubling, that Marian Gaborik played poorly enough (again) to merit benching for the final 8:15 of the second period in the...
Pelfrey's struggles continue; pounded by Cardinals
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Mike Pelfrey has thrown two kinds of pitches this spring: sinkers and stinkers. The Cardinals jumped on the latter yesterday, hitting three home runs against the...
Off-field drama won't distract 2010's A-Rod
TAMPA -- After these few sen tences, we are going to attempt the daredevil journalistic stunt of writing an entire column in 2010 about Alex Rodriguez without mentioning steroids, HGH...
'Mission' not impossible
Saturday's Grade 2, $750,000 Louisiana Derby at the Fair Grounds produced a new candidate for the May 1 Kentucky Derby when the late-blooming Mission Impazible -- chalk another one up...
Damon, Cashman make peace
TAMPA -- Johnny Damon and Brian Cashman met for about 10 minutes behind the batting cage yesterday, their first face-to-face since Damon's contentious divorce from the Yankees. Both men refused...
Yankees GM Cashman quells fire -- about Joba's 2011 role
TAMPA -- Brian Cashman said he's not a fan of engaging in hypothetical situations. The Yankees GM's most trusted lieutenant, though, did exactly that. As did his pitching coach. So...
Turning around Nets 'excites' Prokhorov
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is aware of just how terrible the Nets are, and that's what excites him about buying the team. The 44-year-old's first interview with American television aired...
Pettitte does yet another rain dance
TAMPA -- Even though he was rained out again yesterday and has barely had any Grapefruit League work this spring, Andy Pettitte insisted that won't be an alibi for when...
Knicks' McGrady says Stoudemire acting 'childish'
PHOENIX -- Tracy McGrady still was bewildered by what he says were false allegations made by Amar'e Stoudemire that McGrady blew him off in high school when he asked him...
Body art 'tattoo' much of bad thing
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Division of Self-Mutilation, this NCAA tournament destroyed last year's record for in-view tattoos as seen permanently burned into the flesh of young student-athletes. I...
Devils a model of consistency
PHILADELPHIA -- If the Devils, who lost 5-1 to the Flyers last night, suffered a letdown after clinching a postseason berth Saturday night, it was from a pretty lofty height....
Ex-Yankee Gaudin joins injury-riddled Athletics staff
Right-hander Chad Gaudin has agreed to terms with the Athletics to help shore up their injury-riddled pitching staff, three days after being released by the Yankees. Gaudin was released by...
Devils road woes continue against Flyers
PHILADELPHIA -- The Devils are fortunate there are virtually no back-to-backs in the playoffs any more. And they can thank themselves that they're likely to own home ice advantage in...
Sports shorts
GOLF: Couples wins againFred Couples made 11 birdies and shot a course record 10-under 62 to win the Cap Cana Championship in the Dominican Republic by two strokes yesterday over...
Jazz will benefit in draft from Knicks' misfortune
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Jazz officially earned a 2010 lottery pick from the Knicks last night. In the ultimate irony, the Knicks were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs last...
Catalanotto eyes spot with Mets
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Frank Catalanotto hopes to be the last man standing -- or in this case sitting. The veteran utilityman, who is battling Mike Jacobs and Chris Carter...
The Post Line
NBA Favorite Line Underdog JAZZ 11 Knicks Spurs 8 NETS BOBCATS 6 Raptors Lakers 6½ HORNETS MAVERICKS 5 Nuggets Home team in CAPS NHL Favorite Line Underdog BRUINS $135-155 Sabres...
Jesus special could change everything
History Channel gets a rare opportunity to make good on its name by making history with a hugely expensive, terrifically compelling, technically amazing special, "The Real Face of Jesus?" The...
Oprah cooks for Oli
Call it the Oprah effect, but Jamie Oliver's new series, "Food Revolution," about nutrition in public schools, is starting to get some nibbles. The show -- which chronicles the British...
Spoon sounds sharp at Radio City
It's just like Mary Pop pins chirped in song -- a Spoon-ful of sugar helps the medicine go down. At Radio City Music Hall on Friday, the Austin, Texas, band...
'Smallville' creators sue WB
The creators of "Smallville," the long-running series about Superman's teen years, are suing Warner Bros., claiming the studio has cheated them out of millions in profits. The suit was filed...
3D Final Four games to be shown in Brooklyn
CBS is going to show the NCAA Final Four basketball tournament in 3D in about 50 movie theaters around the country -- the latest event to push 3D into the...
'24' movie in the works
Jack Bauer may never die -- though the network says that "24" will end this May. The tireless government agent played by Kiefer Sutherland is headed for the movies, says...
Starr report
Sarah Jessica Parker will be at The Paley Center April 7 (6:30 p.m.) to talk about her upcoming Bravo series, "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist," with series host...
Leave it to diva
Diva! The very word evokes tantrums, unreasonable de mands -- and the wrath of Aretha Franklin denied her Snickers bar. But to Angela Gheorghiu, who's opening tonight at the Met...
Members of a small male club
What is this mythical "Irish Curse"? Does it have something to do with the potato famine? Is it connected to drinking? Is it "Riverdance"? None of the above. Martin Casella's...
Weird but true
Maybe duct tape doesn't work for everything after all. Police busted an 18-year-old Cadillac, Mich., man for the alleged burglary of a payday loan business -- despite his sticking duct...
Pitino: Willard good fit for Seton Hall
While he may have the uncomfortable situation of having to face him at least once a season now in the Big East, that doesn't make Louisville coach Rick Pitino any...
St. John's to meet with 'interested' Lavin
St. John's athletic director Chris Monasch will interview former UCLA basketball coach Steve Lavin today to discuss the Red Storm's vacant head-coaching job, The Post has learned. Sources told The...
UConn women march on
DAYTON, Ohio -- Maya Moore scored 16 of her 25 points in the opening nine minutes and Connecticut took it from there to roll over Iowa State 74-36 in a...
Butler feels right at home in Indianapolis
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Butler Bulldogs have carried themselves with such tremendous confidence, they have toed the cockiness line. But after winning the NCAA Tournament's West Region title with...
Lovable? No. But Huggins has West Virginia on a roll
His players and colleagues in the coaching community, always with a tone of affection attached to the nickname, call West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins "Huggs." The truth is, though,...
Seton Hall names Iona's Willard to clean up Gonzalez's mess
In three years, Kevin Willard took Iona from the bottom to almost the top of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. He recruited locally, developed players, and proved to be a...
Siena's McCaffery named Iowa coach
Iowa has convinced Fran McCaffery to leave Siena to become the Hawkeyes' new coach. Athletic director Gary Barta announced the hiring in a release yesterday and said McCaffery would be...
Controversy as Duke defeats Baylor to return to Final Four
HOUSTON -- Well, the Duke conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one. Baylor had whipped Reliant Stadium into a frenzy, built itself a two-point lead late in...
Michigan State goes March-ing in again
ST. LOUIS -- The razor-thin margin, the single-point difference came on a free throw set up by an exquisite pass by a fun-loving sophomore named Draymond Green, a play that...
Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1 — A user's guide
There’s plenty to see in and around Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1, which opened its walkways, playground and greenspace on March 22.The views of Manhattan are panoramic, the playground exhilarating...
Experienced Ravens prey on division title
Logic would dictate that St. Raymond should be considered one of the favorites to win the CHSAA Class A intersectional baseball title this year. The Ravens took Fordham Prep to...
Air apparent! It takes more than hot licks to win the air guitar championships
Sure, it takes talent to wail on an axe in front of a blood-thirsty crowd — but it takes some serious finesse to put on a show with nothing but...
Red Bull day-after musings
With Red Bull fans still basking in the afterglow of their team's season-opening win over Chicago -- or is that the glow of the flares Fire supporter's group Section 8...
Gotta dance! But they need a brownstone in which to do it
A Brooklyn dance company needs a home. Several, actually.Tze Chun Dance Company looks to bring its latest production, “Parlour Games,” a playful look at what served as entertainment pre-TV, to...
Our exclusive mus-o-meter registers The Library is on Fire
The Library is on Fire has been characterized as 1990s rock revival. It’s easy to see why, as the trio’s echoes of the alternative rock scene are reminiscent of the...
Library is on Fire is heating things up in Williamsburg
All things considered, you’d think Steve Five would stay in Ohio.The Library is on Fire singer grew up listening to bands like Guided By Voices — also from his hometown...
Cops on horseback, plainclothes officers contribute to recent crime downtown
You could almost say they called in the cavalry.In an effort to quell a surge in crime that began in the new year, canarsie’s 69th Precinct has flooded neighborhood streets...
Cops who nabbed brutal robbers snag Cop of the Month honors
A key arrest of a pair of robbers has earned two canarsie police officers “Cop of the Month” honors.Officer Priscilla Goncalves and Officer Boris Durets were saluted at the March...
