April 17, 1999
TECH KNOCKOUT MAGELLAN SOLD $4.5B OF TECH STOCKS IN 1Q
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amBob Stansky has been selling tech stocks. The manager of Fidelity Investments' flagship Magellan fund, the world's biggest fund, reduced his portfolio's technology exposure from 25.8 percent to 20.9 percent...
NINE WALL ST. EXECS ADMIT STOCK FRAUD
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amSeveral top officials at a now-defunct Manhattan brokerage firm pleaded guilty to charges of stock manipulation and unauthorized trading that cost their investors $10 million, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau...
REEL FANSARRIVINGON QUEUE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amWANNA know just how kooky ''Star Wars'' fans really are? They're already camping out at theaters to be the first to see the new installment of the epic sci-fi series...
TWO MOMS FIND A MIRACLE: THEIR KIDS
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amTIRANA, Albania.MIRACLES can happen - even at war. Two Kosovar mothers and their children know that firsthand. Yesterday, they smiled amid the squalor at the Pishina refugee camp here, where...
ENRAGED MOTORIST CROSSES THE LINE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amA driver whose son was in the back seat had his window shot out allegedly by a fellow motorist brandishing a BB gun. DAVID TEJADAUnder arrest. A Long Island motorist...
FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES ENCOURAGE SAFIR TO STAY PUT
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amPOLICE Commissioner Howard Safir isn't leaving - at least for the foreseeable future. Battered by the PBA's vote of no-confidence, continuing fallout from the Diallo shooting and newspaper stories questioning...
GOV'S WIFE PULLING IN 170G
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amALBANY - Gov. Pataki's wife Libby has a fat new $90,000-a-year job, bringing her projected annual earnings to $170,000 a year, the couple's tax filing shows. Mrs. Pataki was hired...
DAFFY STAMP JUST DUCKY
April 17, 1999 | 4:00am"It's despicable" - Daffy Duck, star of screen, TV and Internet web pages, had to wait until today, his 60th birthday, to appear on a postage stamp. The long-suffering duck...
JONBENET'S KIN SMOOTH THE WAY FOR SURRENDER: TV REPORT
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amJonBenet Ramsey's parents are preparing for the possibility they will be charged in the murder of the 6-year-old beauty queen. John and Patsy Ramsey's lawyers recently sent a letter to...
MARLA'S MOM: SHOE-LOVER JONES GAVE BOOT TO FRIENDSHIP
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amMarla Maples' glamorous mother cried on the witness stand yesterday - repeatedly complaining that her friendship was "betrayed" by the ex-publicist on trial for allegedly burgling her daughter's shoes. "He...
RUDY BLASTS DIALLO MARCHERS WHO COMPARED HIM TO HITLER
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amA day after calling the Amadou Diallo police-brutality rally "peaceful," Mayor Giuliani lashed out at the protesters for carrying "hate" signs and trying to "manipulate" New Yorkers. The organizers, including...
BUSS STOP DUE FOR HERO CROSSING-GUARD GRANNY
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amA Queens third-grader yesterday said he wants to give the crossing guard who saved him from an oncoming car a "big kiss." Mayor Giuliani said he'll honor the woman as...
2ND INCIDENT MAY BE CLUE TO BIKE-RIDE ROB-SLAYER
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amInvestigators believe the bike-riding killer of a Manhattan woman shot to death while taking her laundry to the cleaners may have done another street-corner robbery on his bicycle. The earlier...
COPS: HUFFY 'PUFFY' PUMMELED RECORD BIG ; GETS STAR TREATMENT AT CRIMINAL COURT
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amHip-hop honcho Sean "Puffy" Combs was freed on $15,000 cash bail last night after being charged with terrorizing and brutalizing a top rap executive in a dispute over a music...
HARLEM-BORN RAPPER HAS BEEN LIVIN' LARGE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amSean "Puffy" Combs has more hats than a haberdashery. The 29-year-old entrepreneur is a blockbuster music producer, platinum-selling rap artist, restaurateur, clothing designer and magazine publisher. His last birthday bash...
WAYNE'S WORD: 'OVER' ; GREAT ONE ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amWayne Gretzky called it "a celebration, a party" - but he was the only one smiling at Madison Square Garden yesterday when he finally announced his retirement. One week after...
WHITE HOUSE RIPS SLOBBO'S 'EVIL DESIGN' ; 'COMPELLING' EVIDENCE OF NEW MASS KILLINGS
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - The Clinton administration yesterday said it has "compelling" new evidence of Kosovo killing fields that show the "evil design" of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. The new charge came...
REPORT: STRAW MAY HAVE SOUGHT DRUG SCORE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amYankee slugger Darryl Strawberry seems to have had drugs on his mind - much more than sex when he was busted for soliciting a vice cop, Tampa police records show....
NOW FAMILY MATTERS ARE HIS NO.1 GOAL
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amJanet Jones Gretzky may trade roles with her retiring husband for a while - spending some time in the limelight while The Great One plays Mister Mom. "We're going to...
PAM: MY IMPLANT WENT BUST!
April 17, 1999 | 4:00am"I just didn't feel like it looked very good."PAMELA ANDERSON A pared-down Pam Anderson says when doctors removed her breast implants last week they found a leak in one of...
DARRYL BLOWS IT ALL LOOKING FOR 'GOOS STUFF'
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amTAMPA.IAM standing outside Darryl Strawberry's door, in the gated golf community known as Cheval, ringing the bell again for a very good reason. I want to ask Darryl why he...
'GRANDMA WALTON' ELLEN CORBY, 87, DIES
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amEmmy-winning actress Ellen Corby, who played spinsters and prim neighbors but was best known as the no-nonsense, sharp-tongued grandma on "The Waltons," has died. She was 87. Corby, who was...
PATAKI RIPS CLINTON'S HANDLING OF BALKAN WAR
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amMILFORD, N.H. - Gov. Pataki last night accused President Clinton of badly bungling the war in Kosovo, charging the commander-in-chief has failed to achieve any of his stated goals. Pataki...
JUST DUCKY! DAFFY GETS HIS POSTAGE DUE AT LAST
April 17, 1999 | 4:00am"It's despicable" - Daffy Duck, star of screen, TV and Internet web pages, had to wait until today, his 60th birthday, to appear on a postage stamp. The long-suffering duck...
PAM: MY IMPLANT WENT BUST
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amA pared-down Pamela Anderson says when doctors removed her breast implants a week ago she was stunned to hear they found a leak in one of them. The actress formerly...
COP-SLAY SUSPECT OFF HOOK IN JERSEY
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe onetime prime suspect in the slaying of a New Jersey policewoman is a free man today, released from jail after his alibi checked out. But an unapologetic Essex County...
THREE SHOT IN B'KLYN THEATER
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amA gunman opened fire in a crowded Brooklyn movie house last night after a dispute over seats, injuring three men, one critically. The shooting erupted about 10 p.m. at the...
TV'S GREAT PLANS
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amHere are the final plans for Wayne Gretzky's finale tomorrow at 3 p.m. against the Penguins at the Garden: The Madison Square Garden Network will have everything from start to...
A LOT ON LINE FOR GIANTS, JETS ; BIG BLUE AIMING FOR BIG BADGER
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe last time the Giants used their first-round draft pick on an offensive lineman was 10 years ago, when they opted for a center out of Minnesota named Brian Williams....
NINETEENTH SELECTION LOOMS LARGE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amWith the 19th pick in the first round of today's NFL Draft, the Giants have their eyes on several offensive linemen. Here's a look at three players who could be...
STUNNED JAGR HOPED TO SEE 99 IN 2000
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amCANONSBURG, Pa. - Penguins superstar Jaromir Jagr had hoped to remain in Pittsburgh and sit out tomorrow's regular-season finale at the Garden to rest up for the playoffs. Those plans...
GANG GREEN IN SEARCH OF GUARD IN 2D ROUND
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amFor the Jets, the 1999 NFL Draft comes down to this theme: Find another Fabini. A year ago, almost by accident, the Jets filled their vacant starting right tackle position...
TEST RESULTS CRUCIAL TO DARRYL'S FUTURE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amLatest on Strawberry mess / Page 11 Darryl Strawberry was scheduled to undergo one of his major-league-sanctioned random drug tests yesterday, a procedure that could deepen his crisis with the...
ROCKED ROCKET SET FOR RECHARGE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - At the far end of the Yankees' cramped Tiger Stadium clubhouse, a small television was carrying Wayne Gretzky's retirement press conference yesterday. While Chuck Knoblauch, Joe Girardi and...
NOW, FTOREK HAS ONLY GREAT THINGS TO SAY
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe WHA's last first-team All-Star center had nothing but great things to say last night about the WHA's last second-team All-Star center. Even about their coach-player relationship. Robbie Ftorek was...
ISLES CAN'T AFFORD A WIN
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - It began with Hoistgate and without holdout Ziggy Palffy. It was highlighted by the head coach firing himself and reached a nadir during a five-player trading deadline fire...
FIVE QBS MAKE PERFECT GIFTS ON FOOTBALL XMAS
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amIT WAS this way once for Darryl Strawberry, before the rise and fall and rise and fall again, and it was this way once for Wayne Gretzky, before he was...
ARK. DERBY PROBE HEATS UP
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amDespite ESPN's videotape of last Saturday's Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park that clearly shows Billy Patin, the rider of 30-1 upset winner Valhol, dropping something - alleged by investigators to...
KNICKS HAVE NO INTEREST IN RODMAN
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amAUBURN HILLS - No socks, no shoes, no service. Now that Dennis Rodman is done with the Lakers, actually, the Lakers are done with Rodman, would the Knicks have any...
PIAZZA'S PROGRESS RIGHT ON SCHEDULE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amMike Piazza loosened the thick blue brace and stretched his right knee - the golden knee. It looked almost normal, the swelling that put the fear of collapse in every...
NO FAIRY-TALE FINISH ; BUT GRETZKY RETIRES WITH GREAT DIGNITY
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amOTHER than the fact that Janet Gretzky always saw herself walking down the red carpet on the final day of her husband's career with four kids, not three, she envisioned...
TERRIBLE TIGERS TAME EL DUQUE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - El Duque's command of the English language was better than that of his pitches last night against the pitiful Tigers. While the personable Cuban refugee is making wonderful...
TOAD HOLDS TIGERS
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amDETROIT - Three perfect innings don't transform Hideki Irabu from a toad to a pitching prince. However, the Yankees hope last night's sterling effort is the first step in rebuilding...
LEITER'S FLAME JUST A FLICKER
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amExpos6 Mets4 A Flushing sky leaking and ominous with thick, dark cloud cover, this was a night made for Al Leiter. It seemed like each time he pitched last season...
HOLIK'S VISION PUTS DEVS IN DRIVER'S SEAT
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amOT Devils3 Flyers2 He's no Babe Ruth, nor Mark Messier, but Bobby Holik called his shot last night, and it cut the Devils' Magic Number to one. Holik issued a...
FTOREK'S AT PEACE WITH THE LEGEND
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amThe WHA's last first-team All-Star center had nothing but great things to say last night about the WHA's last second-team All-Star center. Even about their coach-player relationship. Robbie Ftorek was...
EWING-LESS KNICKS HIT THE CHOKE KNICKS PRETENDERS IN PALACE
April 17, 1999 | 4:00amPistons80 Knicks71 AUBURN HILLS - No Patrick Ewing. No Dennis Rodman on deck. No composure, no baskets down the stretch. In the Land of No where the Knicks reside, they...