February 26, 2000
DAY TRADERS BLAST SEC'S 'WITCH HUNT'
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amDay traders accused regulators of conducting a witch hunt against them yesterday -- while regulators insisted they'll step up oversight of daytraders. In the second day of a two-day Senate...
CBS RUMORS BOOST SFX
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amShares of SFX Entertainment shot up 10 percent yesterday on reports that the world's leading live-entertainment company would merge with CBS Corp. SFX rose $3.31 to $35.13 in trading on...
BEST PLACES TO GET BOWLED OVER
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amSay goodbye to the bowling alleys of old. Gone are hard plastic seats, manual scoring with tiny pencils and racks of tattered rental shoes. Say hello to a new generation...
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE HISTORY? MINI-ME AS (WHO ELSE?) NAPOLEON
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amVERNE Troyer readily admits it was his size that won him the role of Napoleon Bonaparte on the syndicated action show "Jack of All Trades." "It's a funny comedy playing...
CHER, AND CHER I LIKE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHE months that Cher has spent on the road working her "Believe" tour have paid off.At the arena at the Meadowlands Sports Complex Thursday night, the thin diva was very...
MISSING WAR SCRIBE ALIVE IN DAGESTAN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amRadio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky, whose disappearance after being arrested by Russian troops in Chechnya drew worldwide protests, has resurfaced in a detention center in Dagestan. Lyudmilla Babitsky, his wife,...
NEWARK COPS IN HAIRY MESS OVER ARREST OF GIRL, 11
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amRed-faced Newark police officials yesterday suspended three cops who locked up an 11-year-old schoolgirl for snipping a lock of hair from a classmate in a gym-class prank. Police Director Joseph...
HE THREW THE 'BOOK' AT HIMSELF
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amSalvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano always believed that pushing drugs was the way to rake in the big bucks -- even if it meant having to whack a few guys to...
WHY CAN'T CITY DOI NAIL 'CROOKED' INSPECTORS?
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHE Department of Investigation hasn't been able to make a case against a band of allegedly crooked inspectors in the Housing Authority -- even though one of them stepped forward...
POPE PREACHES RELIGIOUS PEACE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amPope John Paul II, in the first papal Mass ever in Egypt, yesterday urges Christians and Muslims "to play an active part in a spirit of solidarity, in the building...
DAD CAN'T ANSWER THE BELLE ; DAUGHTER IGNORES FOREMAN PLEA NOT TO FIGHT
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amFormer heavyweight champion George Foreman has pleaded with his sexy boxer daughter to stay out of the ring -- but she's refusing to listen. Freeda Foreman, 23, says her famed...
B'KLYN BANDIT MAKES HACK LATEST VICTIM IN WAVE OF TAXI TERROR
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amA crime wave striking city cabbies continued unabated yesterday -- with a driver shot and robbed in Brooklyn, cops said. So far, five livery drivers have been killed and two...
STATE LETS 'ZORRO'S' OLD CLINIC OPEN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe Queens abortion clinic shuttered by the state Health Department in the wake of the "Dr. Zorro" scandal was allowed to reopen yesterday. Choices Women's Medical Center in Long Island...
HIT MAN FACES LIFE IN HARLEM SLAYS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amA Bronx hit man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted on first-degree murder charges for a double kidnapping-killing in Harlem, prosecutors said yesterday. Richard...
FB-EYE WAS CLOSED AS DEALS WENT DOWN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe feds had stopped watching mob turncoat "Sammy Bull" Gravano while he allegedly orchestrated a major Ecstasy-smuggling operation in Arizona, officials said yesterday. Gravano, a legendary federal witness who helped...
SAM IN SLAM FEDS: EC$TA$Y LURE TOO MUCH FOR BORED 'BULL'
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amPHOENIX -- Mob rat Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, apparently chafing under a low-profile life in the desert, helped catapult a local drug ring into its status as a major supplier...
HE GETS SPEC-TACULAR $4M FOR MOVIE SCRIPT
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amIN one of the most lucrative screenwriting deals ever, writer-director David Koepp has landed $4 million for a script he wrote on spec. Columbia Pictures bought the screenplay for "The...
NOW LITTLE SHAUNA CAN TELL EVERYONE: 'MY DADDY IS NOT A MURDERER'
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY.FIONNUALA CARROLL, wife of Officer Sean Carroll, phoned her 11-year-old daughter, Shauna, on Long Island last night, and said: "Now you can tell everyone, 'My daddy is not a murderer.'"...
BRADLEY EYES MCVOTERS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amWASHINGTON -- Democratic underdog Bill Bradley, struggling to keep his presidential bid alive, yesterday made a play for John McCain's votes. "McCain is a reformer and I'm a reformer," Bradley...
OLD FOES GIULIANI AND PATAKI CLASH OVER MCCAIN-BASH AD
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Aides to Gov. Pataki and Mayor Giuliani clashed yesterday after Giuliani refused to lend his name to a tough attack on GOP presidential contender John McCain. The clash,...
FURY COLLIDES WITH CURIOSITY IN ALBANY
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amALBANY -- Jay Speers stood in the rain -- curious, but showing little passion -- as chaos reigned outside the Albany County Courthouse following the Amadou Diallo verdict. "I came...
FINEST AREN'T OPENING THE CHAMPAGNE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amANALYSIS There was no celebration within the ranks of New York's Finest and top police brass over the Diallo verdict -- only a relief that jurors recognized that when cops...
FEDS EXAMINING CASE WITH EYE TOWARD ; CIVIL-RIGHTS CHARGES
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amWithin an hour of the not-guilty verdicts for the Diallo cops yesterday, federal prosecutors in New York announced they were examining the case for possible civil-rights charges. The feds had...
GOP RIVALS MAKING A GRAB AT GIPPER'S LEGENDARY COATTAILS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amRICHMOND, Va. -- George W. Bush and John McCain dueled yesterday over who's Ronald Reagan's real successor, with McCain launching new ads and Bush out stumping. McCain, who has drawn...
HOW BRADLEY LET GORE GRAB THE BALL AWAY
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amDEMOCRAT Bill Bradley's sport was hoops, but now it looks as if he's down to a Hail Mary pass. He's fallen way behind Al Gore in the polls, all the...
BLANKET COVERAGE AROUND THE TV DIAL
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amJudge Judy was interrupted yesterday afternoon for the real thing -- as New York's TV stations and the all-news cable networks broke into regular programming to carry live the dramatic...
BRONX PROTESTERS ARE DRENCHED BY TEARS FROM HEAVEN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHE rain that fell on Wheeler Avenue late yesterday, soon after the Amadou Diallo verdict was handed down, seemed appropriate. As Elizabeth Feliciano, 19, said, "How fitting is the rain,...
POLICE OUT IN FORCE IN EVENT OF UNREST
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amCops were hoping for the best -- but braced for the worst -- on the eve of today's planned Midtown march by the Rev. Al Sharpton and his followers. The...
AGENT THREW JOCKS FOR LO$$, FEDS SAY
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amSports agent William "Tank" Black skimmed $13.5 million from two dozen athlete-clients, including NBA superstar Vince Carter and NFL standout Fred Taylor, federal authorities charged yesterday. Black, also the subject...
RUDY MUST BUILD A BRIDGE OF TRUST TIME TO REACH OUT TO BLACKS AND LATINOS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amTHE jury has spoken from Albany. Now, the NYPD must consider disciplinary charges against the officers who killed Amadou Diallo. These four men can never again walk around with guns...
SHOCK & FURY FOR AMADOU NEIGHBORS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amFurious Bronx neighbors of Amadou Diallo flung open their windows as the verdicts were read and chanted: "Murderers! Murderers! Murderers!" And hundreds more stood along tension-filled Wheeler Avenue -- where...
COP TESTIMONY SWAYED JURY: EXPERTS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amAn hour after the 12 jurors handed down their verdict, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson defended his prosecutors' case against the four Diallo cops and called it a fair trial...
A DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF FOR GRATEFUL KIN OF NYPD FOUR
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amHours of tense waiting culminated in relief and gratitude yesterday when the families of the four cops charged in the Amadou Diallo shooting heard the jury's not-guilty verdicts. The parents...
COPS COULD FACE DEPARTMENTAL CHARGES
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe four cops acquitted in the death of Amadou Diallo could face departmental charges after final review of the case by NYPD brass, although it is unlikely. Since the shooting...
OUT-OF-TOWN HILL TAKES HER TIME WEIGHING IN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amHillary Rodham Clinton was tripped up by the Diallo case -- once again. When the stunning verdict came down, Clinton was nowhere to be found, and her aides were behind...
SOMBER MAYOR: JUSTICE WAS DONE BUT BLACK LEADERS VENT THEIR OUTRAGE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani last night said justice was done in the acquittal of the four cops who shot Amadou Diallo, while black officials erupted in outrage and demanded the feds step...
VICTIM'S MOM NURSES PAIN IN SOLITUDE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amAmadou Diallo's devastated mom immediately locked herself alone in her hotel room after yesterday's heart-breaking verdict -- emerging hours later to say "justice was not done here." A composed Kadiatou...
DID COST-CUTTING DOOM FLT. 800? ; BOEING HAD TECHNOLOGY TO PREVENT BLAST: BOOK
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amEngineers have known for more than 30 years how to prevent fuel-tank explosions like the one blamed for the TWA Flight 800 disaster -- but airlines say the cure is...
RICKEY & BOBBY ON SAME PAGE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Realizing they are better together this season than apart, Bobby Valentine and his left fielder, Rickey Henderson, spoke yesterday in the manager's office with Valentine stressing...
WATSON'S SORE GROIN A CAUSE FOR CONCERN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amYANKEE NOTES TAMPA -- The first injury of the Yankees' camp isn't considered serious but Allen Watson's left groin problem will be watched closely because the World Champions know how...
BRAVO MOVING TO SANTA ANITA
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amJoe Bravo, currently the second leading jockey of the Aqueduct Winter meeting, will leave March 5 and begin riding at Santa Anita on March 8. A mainstay on the New...
ZEILE TAKES 1ST STEPS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- The adjustment that everyone will talk about for Todd Zeile is moving from third to first. This makes sense and everything is going well so far...
PULSE: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amPORT ST. LUCIE -- Wearing a heart monitor yesterday, Bill Pulsipher -- shortly after his release from the hospital -- threw for 12 minutes and worked out on an elliptical...
FEICK SETTLES BACK IN WITH NETS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe trading deadline came and went Thursday evening, and surprisingly, Jamie Feick -- long-rumored headed to Cleveland in a swap for forward/center Andrew DeClercq -- found himself still a Net...
COACH K BEGS DUKE FANS TO LAY OFF ERICK
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amDURHAM -- Fear not, Erick Barkley. The notorious Duke student body will not harass you today when St. John's takes the court in the college hoops asylum known as Cameron...
LAYDEN'S DECISION: WALLACE IS A KEEPER
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES John Wallace was almost an ex-Knick at the trading deadline Thursday, but GM Scott Layden decided to keep his roster intact.New York Post: Charles Wenzelberg Clippers forward Maurice...
DUVAL GAINS SPOTLIGHT BY DISPATCHING GARCIA
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amCARLSBAD -- Slowly, but very surely, David Duval is changing before the eyes of the golf world. Once content to quietly hang out unnoticed in the back of the room,...
COLEY PLOTS PURR-FECT ENDING CONFIDENT COLEY PLOTS WIN OVER DE LA HOYA
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amGIMME a break, gimme a break. Break me out a seat in the Kit Kat Klub. That is where Derrell Coley's victory party will be held, beginning sometime after midnight...
LAWRIE & NEW CADDIE REVVED UP FOR TIGER
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amCARLSBAD -- It had already been a volatile week for Paul Lawrie by yesterday afternoon and to think: He hadn't even teed off for his quarterfinal match against No. 1...
OSCAR, DERRELL READY TO RUMBLE
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe wait and weight is over for Derrell Coley. Coley, saying Oscar De La Hoya weighed in a pound over the 147 limit, was furious with the four-time champion at...
YANKS MULL DEALS WHILE THEY WAIT
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amJoe Torre appears to be at peace with the world as he and daughter Andrea Rae watch Yankees go through a workout at Tampa yesterday.New York Post: Charles Wenzelberg TAMPA...
BARUCH BOUNCES YORK FOR CROWN
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amCUNY TITLE GAMEBaruch52York50York College marched into last night's CUNYAC final winner of 15 in a row, leaving the championship game a mere formality. Unfortunately for the Cardinals, Baruch College showed...
VAN GUNDY DOUBTS HE'LL HAVE CAMBY OR WARD IN MIAMI
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amJeff Van Gundy said last night he doesn't expect Marcus Camby or Charlie Ward to be back in time for Monday's showdown in Miami. Van Gundy wouldn't guess when they'll...
FIVE GOALS AGAINST HASEK HAS RANGERS THINKING BIG
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amRangers6Sabres3 BUFFALO -- Anything is possible now, making the playoffs, even beating the Devils in a game should they get the chance. Anything is possible now for the Rangers. Anything...
NERVOUS DEVILS LOSE 4TH IN ROW
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amMaple Leafs3Devils1 The last time the Devils slumped like this, they were collapsing towards their worst failure in franchise history. They have lost four straight for the first time since...
CHILDS PLAYS FOR KEEPS - SPARED AT TRADE DEADLINE GUARD SHOOTS DOWN SUNS
February 26, 2000 | 5:00amThe day after the trading deadline's passing, backup point guard Chris Childs was still a Knick, and for one night, management had to be thrilled about that. Childs made one...