January 2, 1999
TV EN ESPANOL GETS HOT: FASTEST GROWING SEGMENT OF POP
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Spanish TV in the U.S. is finally having its day in the sun. Media companies are increasingly courting the burgeoning Latino population , which now makes up some 11...
GAMESVILLE'S PLAYERS AD UP EVERY 10 MINS.
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Will the new so-called e-mercials give the standard ad banners a run for their money? It will be interesting to see now that Gamesville.com has started taking a television-like...
THE INTERNET GIVETH - AND TAKES BACK
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A funny thing has happened to a handful of traditional retailers and wholesalers on their way to Internet bliss. Their stock prices have come crashing down to earth. SkyMall...
LUST IN THE DUST: LOVE GETS DOWN AND DIRTY IN 6 HOURS OF DICKENS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Our Mutual Friend - 3 ½ stars "Our Mutual Friend" is the best kind of TV, the kind that makes you want to go to the library to check...
GOV STARTS 2ND TERM WITH EYE ON NATIONAL RUN
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: ALBANY - Gov. Pataki kicked off his second term yesterday with an apparent eye toward national office, proclaiming that the "spirit of New York" can provide leadership for the...
MCCALL-SPITZER PARTY A REAL 'FREE FOR ALL'
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: ALBANY - Newly elected Democrats Carl McCall and Eliot Spitzer teamed up yesterday for their own joint inaugural party, stressing that the bash was free and open to all...
BAWL LIGHTS UP NEW YEAR AT TWO HOSPS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Two little precious bundles of joy tied for the title of First Baby of the New Year yesterday - making twin appearances at the stroke of midnight. As the...
3 YOUNG PARTY-GOERS DIE IN FIERY L.I. CRASH - RIKERS GUARD IS CHARGED WITH DWI
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A city jail guard - believed to be driving drunk - is facing charges in a horrific crash that left three young New Year's Eve revelers dead, in their...
BEST FRIENDS' NIGHT TURNS TO HORROR
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: They grew up together on Long Island, attended Riverhead HS, worked at the same suburban mall shop - and it was going to be their first New Year's Eve...
QNS. CLAN HURT ON WAY TO CHURCH
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A Queens family spent the New Year huddled in a hospital, praying for five relatives injured in a crash with a suspected drunken driver while on their way to...
PREZ'S HOPE FOR NEW YEAR IS AN END TO DIRTY POLITICS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: WASHINGTON - President Clinton gave wife Hillary a midnight kiss, played two rounds of golf and called for an end to the "politics of personal destruction" before ending his...
WRONG-WAY TRUCK KILLS FAMILY OF THREE IN CONN.
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Four people - including a young family of three - were killed in a horrific head-on New Year's smashup on the Connecticut Turnpike. The victims died when a pickup...
DEATHS BOLSTER CASE FOR STIFFER DRUNK-DRIVE LAWS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The deadly, allegedly booze-fueled New Year's Eve crashes on area roads come as lawmakers nationwide are fighting for better tools to nab drunken drivers. Just this week President Clinton...
TEARY TRIBUTE FOR VICTIMS OF AUSSIE YACHT TRAGEDY
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Mourners dropped red roses and beds of daisies into an Australian river yesterday to remember the six sailors killed in the nation's deadly yacht race. Some 2,000 people attended...
LETTERMAN JOKES BRING DOWN THE MOUSE
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: David Letterman jumped on New York's mice-in-the-donuts scandal - firing off a series of cheesy jokes about the vermin problem on his New Year's Eve show. "In New York...
CLEANUP CREW JUST GETTIN' WARMED UP?
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Like any good party, the morning after New Year's Eve required a massive cleanup in the city - and the streets should be clear just in time for the...
COPS UNCORKED ABUSE ON US, REVELERS SAY
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A New Year's Eve celebration turned into a fearful confrontation for a group of friends who said Midtown cops shoved them and shattered their champagne - just because they...
AND THIS LITTLE EURO WENT TO MARKETS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The euro made its big debut in 11 European nations yesterday - a single currency designed to link the continent's economic fortunes and political diversity. It means that for...
ARAB NEWS POST IN QUEENS VANDALIZED
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Vandals drove a car into the Queens warehouse of a controversial Arab newspaper and set it afire yesterday, damaging the building and destroying the vehicle, cops said. The incident...
'70S SONGWRITER WORKS DIFFERENT SET OF PIPES NOW
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: One-time hitmaker William DeVaughn has gone from climbing the charts to charting D.C.'s water mains - but the singer says he's never had it so good. The former soul...
VENDOR BRAWL TAKES TURN FOR WURST
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amTwo groups of warring hot-dog vendors got into a serious food fight near Madison Square Garden yesterday - with one vendor stabbing the other in the back, police said. Cops...
HEALTH DEPT. MERGER A VICTIM OF POL FEUD
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: A BEHIND-the-scenes battle is blocking the merger of the Departments of Health and Mental Health - nearly a year after it was first proposed. Administration officials charge the City...
SHARK-BITTEN TEEN WON'T BE SURF SHY
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The New Jersey college student who was attacked by a shark in Florida on Christmas Eve said he's not afraid to go back in the water. Andy Thompson hobbled...
BIMINI BLUES WINS INTERBOROUGH 'CAP
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Bimini Blues, who came up empty last out finishing fifth in the Garland of Roses Handicap at Aqueduct Dec. 5, was full of run yesterday to spring a $39.40...
MISS BLUES SWEEP WILL BE RUTHLESS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Speed rules over Aqueduct's inner dirt track, but that might not be the case in today's feature, the $50,000 Ruthless Stakes at six furlongs for 3-year-old fillies. That's because...
BRADY'S LEANING TOWARD JET COURSE
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The thick wall of ice that seemed to be standing in the way of Jet TE Kyle Brady signing a new contract with the Jets seems to be thawing....
THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: OTTAWA - Deep down the Devils know. They did it to themselves here last spring, and it wasn't the first time. Something self-destructive may hide in their hearts, and...
GRANIK PAINTS BLEAK PICTURE
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Suppose, just suppose for a moment, that the current positions between the NBA and the Players Association had existed a few months ago. Would the concessions made have made...
LEETCH'S SPEECH HAS DESIRED EFFECT
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: ST. LOUIS - Just over a year ago, on Dec. 27, 1997 when the Rangers had fallen six games under .500 after a dreadful performance the previous evening in...
THIS SEASON'S BEGINNING TO LOOK ALL TOO FAMILIAR
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: The ball had already dropped in Times Square when Islanders GM/coach Mike Milbury entered the elevator in a downtown Chicago hotel. It was still 1998 in Chicago, still 25...
VOL'S PRICE WANTS RESPECT OF PEERS
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: TEMPE - His name is in Webster's and these are some definitions: unequaled, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed. But Tennessee wide receiver Peerless Price isn't feeling incomparable these days. Peerless is...
CARDS, 'BOYS BACK WHERE THEY STARTED - NFC EAST SUPREMECY ON LINE IN SHOWDOWN
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: IRVING - Neither team is apologizing for meeting in the NFC wild-card playoff game today at Texas Stadium. Not the Cardinals, who took advantage of a soft schedule and...
PLEASANT SURPRISE: VETERAN HAS JETS' 'D' LINE CLICKING
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Quick quiz: Name two of four starters on the Jets' defensive line. Give up? Don't feel bad. Most of their NFL peers couldn't rattle off the Jets' unheralded, no-name...
TUNA'S GOT GLENN BACK IN HIS PLAN
January 2, 1999 | 5:00amABSTRACT: Jet Notes Aaron Glenn yesterday completed his second consecutive practice after missing the last three games with a sprained right ankle. The results have been encouraging enough that the...