May 2, 2013
Remains of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be claimed
BOSTON — The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was set to be claimed Thursday. Department of Public Safety spokesman Terrel Harris said authorities were informed someone would...
New summer festival for Metro Tech
The owner of the Metro Tech office complex in Downtown Brooklyn announced today that it is launching a summer-long festival which will fill the complex’s outdoor public plaza with free...
Rhode Island to become 10th state allowing gay marriage
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island is joining nine other states and the District of Columbia in allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry after the state's General Assembly gave it...
Howard Kurtz leaves Daily Beast, Newsweek after controversial column
Howie Kurtz, one of the country’s best-known media scribes, is out as Washington bureau chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast. The news came a day after Huffington Post’s Michael...
WATCH: Taxidermist with a feminine touch
Some women may want to run away from street rodents. Divya Anantharaman is they type of girl driven to the four-legged creatures; especially, if the mice are dead. The Williamsburg,...
Sing-Sing inmate who claims he was wrongly convicted in retired-cop shooting death wants case reopened
A Sing-Sing murder inmate whose wrongful-conviction claim was recently rejected by Manhattan prosecutors is now asking that Manhattan judge re-open the case. Jon-Adrian Velazquez is serving a life sentence for...
Guilty verdicts for former associates of Comptroller Liu
Two former associates of a candidate seeking to become the city's first Asian-American mayor were convicted Thursday in a scheme to illegally raise campaign funds. The defendants were charged amid...
Jets cut two players after marijuana bust
Two members of the Jets were arrested and charged with marijuana possession on Monday in Morristown, N.J. and then released by the team a day later.Defensive back Cliff Harris and...
Yankees clear A-Rod for baseball activities
It doesn't mean Alex Rodriguez's recovery from left hip surgery is progressing at a quicker than expected pace but the Yankees third baseman has been given permission to start baseball...
Son who allegedly killed mother during seizure bailed to mental health facility
The young man charged with murder for bludgeoning his La Guardia High School teacher mom in their Midtown apartment last year -- while he was in the throes of an...
Jets WR Hill ready to make second-year jump
Jets wide receiver Stephen Hill says he already feels more comfortable in his second year in the NFL."It's a lot different," he said Thursday. " Last year, you really didn't...
Crosby's return still in limbo for Penguins
PITTSBURGH—There was no update Thursday on the status of Penguins star Sidney Crosby, who missed his team’s 5-0 Game 1 win over the Islanders on Wednesday night here in the...
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: A neon action flick gone blissfully insane
The first time protagonist Rex Colt gave the finger in Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, it came out of nowhere. How did it happen? Was it an idle animation? Was...
Jets' Coples confirms move to OLB: I have to 'make a lot more plays'
Jets second-year player Quinton Coples confirmed he is moving to outside linebacker on Wednesday. Coples, the team's first-round pick in 2012, played defensive tackle and defensive end as a rookie....
Yankees put Joba on DL with oblique strain
Add Joba Chamberlain to the Yankees’ ever-growing list of injury woes.The righty reliever suffered an oblique strain and was placed on the 15-day DL on Thursday, retroactive to Apr. 28,...
Shots fired, one person dead at Houston airport
HOUSTON — A man who had fired a gun inside a ticketing area at Houston's largest airport was killed after being confronted by a law enforcement official during an incident...
Red Bulls could unveil Juninho-Cahill midfield
With Dax McCarty injured, the Red Bulls will likely start a central midfield of Juninho and Tim Cahill for the first time all year on Saturday. It’s an older, offensive-minded...
Anthony's wife to Celtics’ Crawford: ‘You on the bench for a reason’
Carmelo Anthony doesn’t have time for Jordan Crawford, and neither does his wife. Crawford, who did not play on Wednesday night, found himself in the middle of a melee at...
Sanchez: 'No doubt' expects to be Jets starting QB
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez said he is embracing the competition to be the team's starter and believes he will win the job.Sanchez spoke to reporters Thursday for the first time...
Plane makes emergency landing beside Long Island road
A small plane made an emergency landing along the side of a road in West Islip, Long Island Thursday afternoon. It is not clear how many people were aboard the...
Insider trader Newman gets more than 4 years
Todd Newman, the stock trader who helped take down hedge-fund firm Diamondback Capital Management with a multimillion dollar insider trading scheme, was sentenced today to 4-1/2 years in prison. The...
'Warren is in the house': Buffett announces belated Twitter arrival with hilarious tweet
Warren is in the house! Warren Buffett, that is. The billionaire business magnate has finally joined Twitter, declaring he was "in the house" in a hilarious first tweet that was...
Boyle skates with Rangers, but won't return for Game 1
WASHINGTON — Brian Boyle skated with his Rangers’ teammates for the first time since sustaining the right knee injury in Philadelphia on Apr. 16 that sidelined him for the final...
Obama nominates Pritzker, Froman for top economic posts
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday chose two old friends with corporate executive experience for top posts on his economic team, naming longtime fundraiser Penny Pritzker as Commerce secretary...
Queens product Moore chooses A-10 bound George Mason
Prep school did wonders for Marquise Moore.Despite leading Holy Cross to the Catholic league city championship, the 6-foot-2 guard from Queens had no Division I scholarship offers. After a big...
Demolition work starts on house that was swept into bay by Hurricane Sandy in Mantoloking
MANTOLOKING, NJ — Another of the defining images of Superstorm Sandy's destruction at the Jersey shore is disappearing as New Jersey cleans up and struggles toward normalcy. Works crews on...
Suicide rate rose sharply among middle-aged Americans from 1999-2010
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday. The trend...
Woodson furious that Knicks wore black to Celtics' Game 5 'funeral'
A fuming Mike Woodson said he’s upset his players wore all black to Wednesday night’s potential close-out game vs. the Celtics, reprimanding them before Thursday’s practice. Woodson said he didn’t...
FBI recovers accused Boston bomber's laptop: report
The FBI has recovered accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's laptop, according to new reports. Dias Kadyrbayev's attorney Robert Stahl told NBC News that the feds have the machine but did...
Lindsay Lohan is MIA after pretending to check into unlicensed Calif. rehab center
Lindsay Lohan is on the loose. "The "Mean Girls" star fooled an L.A Superior Court judge, a Santa Monica prosecutor and apparently her own lawyer, by pretending to check into...
First woman added to FBI's list of most wanted terrorists
NEWARK, N.J. — A militant convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper 40 years ago is now the first woman on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. The...
Lin wants to return from injury, but Rockets won't let him
The Rockets have now won back-to-back games against the Thunder and they’ve done it without Jeremy Lin. The former Knicks point guard says that it’s been the team’s choice to...
Michael Shannon can’t thaw out not-so-hot crime biopic ‘The Iceman’
Excuse the pun, but it’s hard to warm up to “The Iceman,’’ a sketchy, flatly directed biopic based on one of the most compelling true crime stories out of New...
Flag-covered spire hoisted to top of One World Trade Center
The final pieces of the massive spire that will crown One World Trade Center were hoisted up the building today — exactly two years after a Navy SEAL team broke...
Mamma Mia! Pierce Brosnan is back on a Mediterranean isle for delightful ‘Love Is All You Need’
Pierce Brosnan plays a middle-aged businessman who finds love on a picturesque, sun-dappled Mediterranean island where he’s arrived for a wedding in “Love Is All You Need.” But rest assured,...
Red Bulls' Heath Pearce not starting...and not happy
For every starting job won, another is lost. Roy Miller’s return to the Red Bulls’ Starting XI has cost Heath Pearce his spot in it, something the former all-star defender...
Warren Buffett says women key to nation's prosperity
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire Warren Buffett is optimistic about America's economic future because the nation has begun to unleash the potential of women. Buffett's views on the role of women...
Intel taps COO Krzanich as new CEO
Intel's chief operating officer, Brian Krzanich, will become its next CEO in two weeks, tasked with steering the world's largest chipmaker through an industry shake-up that is seeing tablets and...
Community college establishes scholarship in memory of Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell
WELLESLEY, Mass. — A suburban Boston community college has established a scholarship in memory of a marathon bombing victim. MassBay Community College announced Wednesday that the scholarship would go to...
POST-CAST: Vaccaro, Hale talk Knicks' collapse and Lo Duca joins to discuss Mets, Kentucky Derby
After the Knicks dropped two straight against the Celtics, Post columnist Mike Vaccaro and reporter Mark Hale talk about a potential collapse after the team had a 3-0 lead. Also,...
'Whitey' Bulger can't use immunity defense: judge
BOSTON — Reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger cannot argue at his trial that a now-dead law enforcement official granted him immunity from prosecution, the new judge presiding over his case...
Starbucks makes management changes
Starbucks Corp. is making management changes it says will give its top leaders deeper experience with the company. The world's biggest coffee chain declined to say whether the changes were...
Two kids struck in Brooklyn auto accidents
Two boys were hurt in accidents this morning in Brooklyn, authorities said. In Bath Beach, a 12-year-old boy was hit by a car on Bath Avenue and 24th Street at...
'Boob job' bikini boosts bust by 2 cup sizes
A bikini that boosts boobs by up to TWO cup sizes has been launched in time for summer. Shoppers have demanded cleavage-enhancing swimwear after seeing snaps of big-busted stars such...
Boyfriend: I killed tot over her ABC’s
A man admitted in Bronx court yesterday that he beat his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death with a belt when she refused to do her ABC’s — a form of...
Yankees magic, Terry Collins, Cubs reality and a cool exhibit
Here’s my column off last night’s Yankees game, which was not the most compelling game the Yankees will play this year. The Yankees are very much still in survive and...
US calls for NKorea amnesty for sentenced American
WASHINGTON — The U.S. called Thursday for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for "hostile acts" against the state. Kenneth...
Former Giants LB Michael Boley arrested for child abuse: report
The Giants back on Feb. 5 made the mildly-surprising but hardly shocking move of releasing linebacker Michael Boley. Three days later, he was arrested for child abuse, according to TMZ.The...
Reese Witherspoon on her arrest: Just 'one of those nights'
It was just "one of those nights." Reese Witherspoon is finally speaking out about her high-profile arrest last month on disorderly conduct, after her husband was pulled over for allegedly...
Cops hunt for pair who stole $170K watch from luxe Midtown shop
Two thieves stole a pricey watch from a luxury store in Midtown, authorities said today. A woman distracted one of the employees at the Porsche Design Store on Madison Avenue,...
Fans will sink their teeth into CW's 'TVD' spin-off 'The Originals'
On April 25, the CW premiered the backdoor pilot for "The Originals," the highly anticipated spin-off from the network's flagship series, "The Vampire Diaries." The new show focuses on the...
CW's 'Originals' spin-off risks damaging fan-favorite series
On April 25, the CW premiered the backdoor pilot for "The Originals," the highly anticipated spin-off from the network's flagship series, "The Vampire Diaries." The new show focuses on the...
Unemployment aid applications fell to five-year low last week
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008. The drop points to fewer layoffs and possibly more...
Khadafy's son appears in court on charges of harming state security; case postponed
ZINTAN, Libya — Wearing a sky-blue safari suit and a pair of sandals, the imprisoned son of slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi made his second court appearance this year on Thursday...
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI returns to Vatican to move into retirement home behind St. Peter's
VATICAN CITY — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home to the Vatican on Thursday for the first time since he resigned Feb. 28, beginning an unprecedented era for the Catholic...
Former CIA director Petraeus to join USC faculty
LOS ANGELES — David Petraeus' next tough assignment will be in the trenches of academia. The University of Southern California announced Thursday that the retired general and former CIA director...
Five-alarm fire in the Bronx under control; only minor injuries reported
Firefighters battled a five-alarm inferno in the Bronx this morning, which also snarled subway service, authorities said. The blaze began in Wakefield about 6:15 a.m. on White Plains Road near...
2 airplanes about to take off clip each other at Newark Airport
NEWARK — Two airplanes taxiing while preparing for takeoff at Newark Liberty International Airport clipped each other, leaving one of the planes with a portion of its left wing ripped...
Knicks dress for Celtics’ Game 5 funeral, but defeat sends series back to Boston
The Knicks and J.R. Smith faded … to black. In nothing short of a choke, the Knicks allowed the Celtics to keep their season alive and take Game 5 last...
Tip Ins
Game 5: Celtics 92, Knicks 86 Knicks lead series, 3-2 HERO Kevin Garnett delivered a superb performance, racking up 16 points, 18 rebounds, five assists and two blocks. The Celtics...
Unclear if Amar'e could suit up for Knicks' potential Game 7
Could Amar’e Stoudemire be ready for Sunday’s Game 7 if necessary? This series might go seven games and coach Mike Woodson was preparing Stoudemire for the second round, which still...
Revived Celtics gunning to do to Knicks what ’04 Red Sox did to Yankees
Yes, the Celtics know all about the Idiots and Big Papi and Manny and Dave Roberts. And the Celtics would love to draw a parallel between the 2004 Red Sox...
Johnson would sit if Nets' season wasn’t on line tonight
CHICAGO — As the Nets take the floor tonight at United Center for Game 6 of their first-round series against the Bulls — one they hope to push to a...
Lopez, Blatche getting some big results for Nets
CHICAGO — Throughout the season, interim coach P.J. Carlesimo has said playing Brook Lopez and Andray Blatche together is a combination that would be successful in certain matchups. It appears...
Valdespin’s 3-run, pinch-hit homer helps Mets end six-game skid
MIAMI — In case of emergency, break glass and reach for Jordany Valdespin. The Mets went that route yesterday and watched the flamboyant utilityman again deliver the kind of hit...
Parnell cools off, then saves Mets game
MIAMI — Bobby Parnell isn’t holding a grudge toward his manager. A day after the Mets closer was visibly angry for not getting the call in a save situation against...
Power Plays
1. Adam Henrique Just 1:03 into overtime, he scored the game-winner that sent the Devils to the Stanley Cup Finals. 2. Martin Brodeur Brodeur was tested early and often in...
Rangers-Capitals matchups
WASHINGTON — No team in the NHL played better hockey the final five weeks of the season than the Capitals, who came from nine points behind the Jets on March...
Business briefs
Stocks downUS stocks tumbled yesterday following weak employment and manufacturing data, and as the Federal Reserve stuck to its aggressive economic stimulus program.Vrooom!Ford, GM and Chrysler reported US sales increases...
Mobile ads power new-look Facebook
Facebook’s mobile business is making big strides, counting for nearly one of every three of its ad dollars last quarter. The social network announced quarterly results yesterday that showed its...
Netflix sees media giants start own streaming services
The video-streaming sector is getting crowded. Time Warner, AMC Networks and CBS each launched their own video-streaming apps recently and Viacom yesterday told investors it would soon roll out apps...
Coliseum demo plan joins mix
Bruce Ratner is facing some surprising opposition in his bid to renovate Nassau Coliseum. Long Island developer Ed Blumenfeld is expected to unveil a rival $200 million plan today that...
Sink QE! (the money-printing plan, that is)
Quantitative easing must die! The Federal Reserve made it official yesterday, saying it’s full steam ahead for the money-printing operation that is creating all sorts of financial dislocations without helping...
JCPenney panders in corny TV ad
We screwed up big time, please forgive us! JCPenney released a video ad yesterday that begged shoppers to come back to its stores — just weeks after it fired Chief...
Dell holder weighs own $9B plan
The Blackstone Group has walked away from Dell Inc., but that doesn’t mean Michael Dell’s buyout offer for his PC maker will have the field to itself. Southeastern Asset Management,...
Apple fees bank boon
Goldman Sachs pocketed $38.3 million and Deutsche Bank $9.3 million for underwriting Apple’s $17 billion bond offering, its first since the mid-1990s. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the...
NY regulators poised to act on ailing MBIA
Time has just about run out for MBIA Insurance Corp. — once one of the country’s most respected specialty insurers. New York state regulators are poised — within “weeks or...
Einhorn is gored by gold
April was the cruelest month for the gold bugs in hedge-fund land, and the proof is just starting to trickle in. Gold is one of David Einhorn’s top six holdings;...
MS slapped on pay plan
Morgan Stanley shareholders should vote against its executive pay plan in an advisory ballot this month, a shareholder-advisory firm said. The firm gets an “F” in tying executive pay to...
Sumner’s late tax hit
In 1972, President Nixon cruised to re-election, “The Waltons” premiered on CBS — and Sumner Redstone, who wasn’t yet a global media mogul, made a taxable gift to his children...
SideCar ‘taxi’ is off-duty
SideCar has gotten stung by a sting. Undercover city taxi regulators over the weekend conducted a sting operation on Gotham’s first app-centric ride-sharing service to see if they were collecting...
CBS saw ‘Super’ profits
Broadcaster CBS reported higher-than-expected profit for the first quarter, helped by advertising during February’s Super Bowl broadcast and a jump in revenue from cable channels. Net earnings for the January...
Tough TV-ad biz hurts big media
Some of the biggest US media conglomerates beat earnings expectations yesterday, though Time Warner, Viacom and Comcast all found their TV businesses under scrutiny in a tough advertising market. Time...
One of a Kind
Back in 1997, Richard Kind, now co-starring in Clifford Odets’ “The Big Knife” at the American Airlines Theatre, had a plan. He was going to propose to his then-girlfriend Dana...
Just sold!
Manhattan MIDTOWN WEST $3,550,000 146 W. 57th St. Two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath condo, 1,489 square feet, with floor-to-ceiling windows, Central Park views and master suite with marble bath and six-closet dressing...
Ichiro in there
Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has found a new home base. Suzuki is renting the 111 Central Park North apartment that both Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez also took a look...
Killer’s ‘confession’
A Queens man walked into a station house with his father — and announced that he had suffocated his mother’s boyfriend hours after the victim was found buried in their...
Dirt-biker in tragedy is $lapped
The Bronx man who was riding a dirt bike when a police cruiser plowed into him last August, killing his friend, was found guilty yesterday of reckless driving and fined...
It’s art – for porn’s sake!
The city has gone porn. Walking through Times Square or Chinatown, in Brooklyn or even the cloistered Hasidic Jewish precincts of the Lower East Side, we of traditional family values...
‘Cookie’: I no want plea deal!
The Times Square “Cookie Monster” insists he’s no menace. Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez — accused of violently shoving a toddler whose mother wouldn’t tip him — is continuing to fight his misdemeanor...
Cabby cruises
A cabby accused of ramming his taxi into two would-be passengers rather than drive them from Midtown to The Bronx has been acquitted of trying to murder them. Mohammed Azam,...
Brakes put on taxi-hail app
An appeals court stopped the city’s rollout of a taxi e-hail app called Uber yesterday, just a day after it started.The ruling was a temporary win for black-car companies, which...
News you can abuse
Raging ex-anchorman Rob Morrison’s temper has gotten him into another ugly mess after he furiously insulted a weekly-newspaper reporter for making a minor mistake in a story about the wife-choking...
Freed mob big’s wings clipped
New York was too hot for Chilli last Christmas. Bonanno crime family captain Gerald Chilli flew north from his Florida home last December for a holiday season jaunt to the...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn A man was arrested yesterday for fatally stabbing his brother in the neck, police said. Jamel Staton was picked up after a deadly dispute with Oufmon Staton, 35, in...
‘Stop sawing me’
A retired postal worker recounted his horrific encounter with a power-saw- wielding madman on a subway platform, telling a Manhattan jury in emotional, dramatic detail yesterday how the lunatic relentlessly...
Fiend gets 5 years for raping boy
An Orthodox man who pleaded guilty to raping a young Brooklyn boy in a Jewish ritual bath was sentenced yesterday to five years behind bars, as his victim’s mom called...
Groper gets off squeezy
A Brooklyn lawyer who turned out to be Manhattan’s notorious serial “Gentleman Groper” got a wrist-slap, no-jail sentence yesterday that may let him even keep his law license. Paul Kraft,...
‘Debt’ on arrival
Michael Jackson’s Doctor Feelgood was buried under mountains of debt — and thus susceptible to selling his prescription pad, a cop testified yesterday in the lawsuit pressed by MJ’s family....
Kriss rap star dies
Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly, one half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kriss Kross, died last night at an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34, said a Medical Examiner’s...
Sex-rap Shel aide returns as lobbyist
Michael Boxley, the former top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver who was convicted of sexually abusing a legislative staffer, has re-emerged as principal in one of Albany’s top lobbying...
Pagan pol out of the running
The pagan pol is pulling out. Disgraced, heathen City Councilman Dan Halloran (pictured) announced yesterday that he won’t seek re-election — so he can try to clean up his scandal-splattered...
'The Great Gatsby' premieres in NYC
A dapper Leonardo DiCaprio led a Hollywood invasion of Lincoln Center last night for an all-star premiere of “The Great Gatsby.” DiCaprio, who plays the title role, wore a dark...
Wanted posters in Libya attack
WASHINGTON — The FBI yesterday started circulating photos of three men wanted for questioning in the murderous terror attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, as the investigation has...
Three pals of bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev busted in alleged ‘cover-up’
Real funny. Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn’t have a care in the world as an army of feds and cops hunted for him after the marathon attack — texting “LOL”...
NYC race’s bag ban
The 32,000 cyclists in Sunday’s Five Boro Bike Tour will only be allowed to carry fanny packs and water bottles — with backpacks banned in the wake of the deadly...
I’m in no fracking hurry: gov
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo continues to drag his feet on whether to allow hydraulic fracking for natural gas upstate. His administration admitted yesterday there is “no timetable for a decision”...
Christine to Bloomberg: Frisk you!
Mayor Bloomberg’s impassioned speech in defense of stop-and-frisk this week wasn’t enough to persuade City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to back off from her support of a bill to create...
‘Spring’ time for pay-to-play jailbird
ALBANY — Hank Morris, the political mastermind behind the pay-to-play pension scam that brought down then-state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, is a free man starting today. And the Albany guru isn’t...
Qns. girl, 7, molested
A 7-year old girl was sexually assaulted early last night after she left her Queens back yard to get a ball that went over a fence while she was playing,...
Biz big’s ex gets last bash
The ex-wife who says Manhattan “linen king” George Bardwil battered her is hitting back — with a $15 million lawsuit for “horrific acts of violence and intimidation” she claims she...
‘Fare-beater’ is eyed in murder
He should have just paid the $2.50.An aspiring Queens rapper was caught jumping a subway turnstile — and cops soon learned he was wanted in a murder and two shootings,...
Beauty blamed for own death
A defense expert for the accused-killer son of “You Light Up My Life” composer Joseph Brooks said yesterday that a stunning swimsuit designer found half-stripped and submerged in an overflowing...
Figoski jury white slight nixed
The defense attorney for a Brooklyn man accused in the fatal shooting of NYPD Detective Peter Figoski challenged every white person in the jury pool yesterday — earning a rebuke...
Andy’s hedge on casino vote
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo says asking voters to legalize casino gambling this year may be a bad bet.The governor said yesterday he’s worried that a potentially big New York City...
City gets $800M tax boost for budget
The city has taken in an extra $800 million from capital-gains taxes this year, but the revenue will be offset by other unexpected costs, sources told The Post.Mayor Bloomberg will...
Feds gave Liu ‘break’
The feds had a prime opportunity to try to nail city Comptroller John Liu on campaign-finance charges — but made a “strategic decision” not to, a lawyer for Liu’s former...
‘It feels like a burial, like a casket’
Police yesterday hauled away the 255-pound hunk of World Trade Center plane wreckage that was recently discovered in a tight alley behind the planned Ground Zero mosque. Once the wing-flap...
Plan B legal appeal
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is appealing a judge’s decision lifting all age limits on the Plan B morning-after birth-control pill and a cheaper generic.The federal government says that New...
New York City bike-share program bans riders who weigh more than 260 pounds
Can obese cyclists sign up for the city’s new bike-share program? Fat chance! It is “prohibited” for any rider who weighs more than 260 pounds to sign up for the...
‘Smoking’ gun nets 60G fine
The owner of a Midtown tourist shop is firing back at Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against toy guns, filing papers to block a $60,000 fine from the city for selling lighters...
Realty deal a ble$$ing
The Jehovah’s Witnesses have sold one of their most coveted properties — a huge empty lot in DUMBO zoned for hotels, residential and commercial use.The religious group’s prayers were answered...
Al Qaeda on march across the globe
Two years ago today, SEAL Team Six sent Osama bin Laden on his way to Davy Jones’ Locker — but his Islamist terror machine is anything but sinking to the...
Too late for Syria
To borrow the climactic line from “Easy Rider,” “We blew it.” Or, to be fully accurate, President Obama blew an unprecedented chance to aid Syria’s then-moderate opposition back in 2011....
Jihadis’ death toll: Struggling to understand
The Issue: Jihadists who blame America for Muslim deaths, while some Muslim regimes kill their own people. *** As an American Muslim, I take issue with extremists who link terrorism...
Quitting while she’s ahead
The Issue: Whether Gov. Cuomo should run for president in 2016, if Hillary Clinton also runs. *** I can’t believe that Gov. Cuomo won’t run for president if Hillary Clinton...
Tebow time for The Bronx
If only Bronx politics were more like professional football. This week the Jets finally released backup quarterback Tim Tebow, ending a one-year experiment that proved embarrassing to all. With just...
Woulda. coulda. shoulda.
Startingwith 9/11, Washington has been quick to holler “no one’s connecting the dots!” whenever there’s been an attack. But when it comes to ensuring those dots are collected, it’s another...
No work experience needed
“That’s what we need. Not these career politicians who have never really held a job. Like our president.” — Rudy Giuliani at a fund-raiser for Republican Joe Lhota, dismissing all...
Welfare for politicians won’t clean up Gov’t
New York taxpayers are the most beleaguered in America; they don’t need to start forking over even more money to fund political campaigns. It’s welfare for politicians. Last week, more...
Plan B is not safe without a Doc’s Rx
The federal Food and Drug Administration decided this week that if your daughter is 15, she can reach for Plan B without a prescription to prevent pregnancy the morning after...
New York City Ballet celebrates Balanchine with a program of his classics
New York City Ballet opened its American Music Festival on a bittersweet note: Tuesday was the 30th anniversary of George Balanchine’s death, and in its founder’s honor, the company danced...
Muddled ‘Love Therapy’ needs its head examined
Manhattan therapist Colleen Fitzgerald has an unorthodox twist on treatment: She sees only the patients she likes. Good luck with that in this town. And good luck to audiences at...
Blazers' Lillard named NBA Rookie of the Year
PORTLAND — Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard has been unanimously chosen the NBA’s Rookie of the Year. Lillard, the sixth overall pick in last June’s draft out of Weber...
Tomorrow’s Belmont Entries
All horses appear in post position orderFIRST-6 fur; $55,000; alw; 3YO(f) PN Horse, Wt.JockeyLast 3TrainerOdds1 My BellaBeauty(L),118E Castro3-4-1Esler10-12 Currency Union(L),120D Cohen1-7-4Antonucc7-23 Sweet Sway(L),120CVelasquz2-1-1Rodrigez2-14 Sister City(L),115GRodriguz1-5-6Hushion5-25 Lurabell(L),111M Franco1-x-xAdsit15-16 RunaDubbDubb(L),120R Maragh2-1-3Persaud4-1SECOND-1 mile;...
Belmont Charts
May 1st, 2013Clear and Fast Turf Firm©2013 Equibase. All Rights ReservedFIRST-6f(T); $72,000; alw; 3upOff: 1:05. Good. stumbled brk, coax 2pTime: 22.26, 45.4, 57.22, 1:09.14.Trainer: Gary ContessaWinner: DK B/ C, 3,...
Vic Cangialosi at Churchill Downs
Post Time: 12:40 p.m. FIRST-6 fur; $23,500; alw; 4up(f) PN Horse, Wt. Jockey Last 3 Odds 1 Wildie(L),120 RNprvn 1-5-1 5-2 3 Rigamaro(L),118 SBrdg 2-4-1 8-1 2 Brezing Rain(L),118 RAlbrd...
Hondo takes two!!
The Cardinals and Rockies carried out their assignments for Hondo yesterday, vanquishing their opponents to lower the deficit to 240 mcgees,Tonight, Mr. Aitch will maintain his poker face and ante...
Senior Tour pro spotted Woods’ Masters gaffe
Tiger Woods’ Masters tattler, and the subsequent chaos that led to a two-stroke penalty, has been revealed. The person originally identified as a “television viewer,” the person who called into...
Sports Shorts
NBA: West leads Pacers to victory over Hawks David West scored 24 points and Paul George had 21 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Pacers past the Hawks 106-83...
New Jets QB tweeted during NFL visits: report
New Jets quarterback Geno Smith is already taking hits, and he has not even put on a pair of shoulder pads for the team yet. Yahoo Sports posted a damning...
Home Team Lineups
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Orb early favorite as contentious Kentucky Derby draws full field
LOUISVILLE — A full field of 20, with one also-eligible, passed the entry box yesterday for Saturday’s 139th Kentucky Derby, and after post positions were drawn, at least half of...
Flashy Gray out of Oaks
LOUISVILLE — West Point Stable’s 3-year-old filly Flashy Gray, runner-up in the Honeybee and Fair Grounds Oaks in her last two starts for trainer Bill Mott, was scratched from tomorrow’s...
Nets believe they’re better than Bulls, now they have to prove it
CHICAGO — I asked Brook Lopez if he was looking forward to Game 7 in Brooklyn. He didn’t go for the bait. “We’re not focusing on Game 7 at all,”...
Penguins punish Islanders in opener
PITTSBURGH — It would have been near impossible to imagine a way in which this postseason could have started any worse. The welcome-back-to-the-playoffs gift the Islanders received was a 5-0...
Rangers finally found their identity after trade deadline
WASHINGTON — A year ago, we knew exactly who and what those guys were when the playoffs began. They were Black-and-Blueshirts and they were Bluebloods who for the most part...
Penguins’ Crosby not cleared to play
PITTSBURGH — It was pretty clear Wednesday morning how much Sidney Crosby wanted to play. But the Penguins star center had his broken jaw to blame for him having to...
Playoffs open with Rangers needing to play disciplined
WASHINGTON — Let us break down this Rangers-Capitals first-round playoff series that begins here tonight to its most fundamental equation. The Blueshirts had the third-best five-on-five goal ratio in the...
Capitals' Ovechkin restless and ready to go
ARLINGTON, Va. — The wait for Washington seems endless. Four days have passed since the Capitals last played a game and the hottest team in hockey has found it hard...
Yankees reliever Robertson tweaks hamstring
David Robertson pitched a perfect eighth inning Wednesday night, but it didn’t end exactly the way he wanted it to. After striking out the first two batters he faced, Robertson...
Yankees acquire infielder Nelson from Rockies
The Yankees acquired infielder Chris Nelson from the Rockies last night for cash or a player to be named. To make room for Nelson, the Yankees moved Francisco Cervelli (fractured...
Crucial for Yankees to not overuse Hafner, keep him healthy
Brian Cashman calls Travis Hafner “a field-goal kicker.” In that case, the Yankees’ designated hitter has been an in-his-prime Morten Andersen here in 2013. If Hafner has proven a particularly...
Overbay’s smart play on bases propels Yankees over Astros
Because the Yankees took two out of three from the lowly Astros they don’t have to spend today’s off day answering questions about how they could have been on the...
Too early for blame game to cost Collins his Mets' job
Here is the deal I would urge you to make with yourself: Do not heap praise on Terry Collins for the Jordany Valdespin swing that resulted in an A.J. Ramos...
Knicks' J.R. shoots blanks in return from suspension
J.R. Smith stood at his locker, dressed in black, from head to toe. “We were going to a funeral,” Smith said, “but it looked like we got buried.” It is...
Fashion sense, common sense both in short supply as cocky Knicks lose to Celtics
For a couple of minutes, anyway, the Knicks were allowed to think they were every bit as good, every bit as accomplished, as they believe themselves to be. They came...
Another off night for Melo dooms Knicks
Carmelo Anthony is mired in a brutal two-game shooting slump. In the Knicks’ 97-90 overtime loss to the Celtics in Game 4, Anthony shot a miserable 10-for-35, missing 25 shots...
WATCH: Incident ensues after Celtics scrub appears to talk trash about Melo's wife
There was another exchange between the Knicks and Celtics that inflamed tensions between players last night. Once again, Carmelo Anthony was a target. And once again, perhaps Anthony’s wife, too....
Drama Mama
Your weekly guide to TV’s best and worst one-hour shows. Let’s look at that unexamined phenomenom — a televised identity crisis. These shows will make you go, “Huh?”: “Once Upon...
Jenny McCarthy as next Joy on ‘The View’?
Pop quiz: Jenny McCarthy has just wrapped a three-day co-hosting gig on “The View,” a stint that gave the other co-hosts the chance to flatter her like she was the...
‘Downton Abbey’ adds black actor
The Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) may reach for the smelling salts because it looks like “Downton Abbey” is about to get some rhythm. Among the many new characters viewers will...
Last hurrah for ‘Elmo’ at the Emmys
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who voiced Elmo but was driven out of his job by an underage-sex scandal, made a surprise appearance yesterday. Not in person — but on the...
Wonder bar
When you see Allison Williams doing chin-ups next season on HBO’s “Girls,” you’ll know how she did it. The sizzling young actress got some just-out-of-camera-range support from two crew members...
Weird but true
A 16-year-old Florida high-school girl who teachers say is an exemplary student was hit with a felony rap for what she claimed was a “science experiment.” Kiera Wilmot, 16, mixed...
Burger wars!
It's on. The ultimate battle royale with cheese. More than 50 new burger joints are set to open in the city this year, with new chains, like California’s Fatburger and...
Chris Kelly of rap duo Kris Kross dead: authorities
ATLANTA — Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade's most memorable songs with the frenetic "Jump," died at an Atlanta...
Yankees slip past awful Astros
The Yankees took two of three from the worst team in baseball so they avoided the embarrassment of being on the other end of that deal and having to answer...
Jets moving Coples to outside linebacker
The Jets are shaking things up along their defensive line.Quinton Coples, the team’s first-round pick from a year ago, is moving from playing on the interior to outside linebacker in...
Three adjustments Bulls could make for Game 6 vs. Nets
CHICAGO – After each game of this series, I’m going to look at how the losing team can adjust their tactics and try to flip the script in the next...
Islanders outclassed in Game 1 loss to Penguins
PITTSBURGH—There are few ways this postseason debut for the Islanders could have gone any worse. The moments of hope that the young Islanders had a chance in this first-round series...
Shaky Knicks fail to put away Celtics
The Knicks and J.R. Smith said this series was over, but somebody forgot to tell the Celtics. In nothing short of a choke, the shaky Knicks allowed the Celtics to...
How Kirk Hinrich’s absence helped Nets win Game 5
For all of the things the Nets did right in Game 5 – and they did plenty, just as they did for the vast majority of Game 4 – an...
Idzik makes changes to Jets' scouting department
New Jets general manager John Idzik has begun making some changes to the scouting department now that the NFL Draft is over.The Jets will not renew the contracts of assistant...
Coked-up cab-jacker gets 11 years for dangerous joy ride
A coked up, booze-addled, bi-polar cab-jacker was sentenced to 11 years prison today for taking a taxi on a high-speed joy ride from Delancey Street to Union Square, where he...