April 15, 2000
CAUGHT IN OWN WEB PIXELON FOUNDER RAISED $35M WHILE MOST WANTED
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe founder of a Los Angeles-based Internet startup who managed to raise $35 million while on the Virginia State Police's Most Wanted list is back in jail. David Stanley, 39,...
MARGIN CALLS TIED TO BIG SELL-OFF
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amNot everyone who sold stocks yesterday did so by choice. Many investors who had been buying stocks on margin - with money borrowed from their brokerages - got a nasty...
PICKS AND PANS FOR KIDS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amPICK OF THE WEEK "28 DAYS" (PG-13): Alcoholism isn't pretty - but the hard-drinking writer that Sandra Bullock plays in "28 Days" is pretty darn cute. The film takes its...
EGGS-STRA, EGGS-STRA READ ALL ABOUT IT
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amABSTRACT: Parents who are hiding the matzo or those little chocolate eggs may want to tuck in a book or two for their children. Here are some fine reads -...
TRUE BLUE
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amWhen "Blue's Clues Live!" opens this week, only eagle-eyed kids (an parents who really study that playbill) may notice that Blue's best friend, Steve, isn't quite himself. He isn't. Playing...
250G CASH ON DELIVERY FOR POSTAL EXECS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe U.S. Postal Service put its stamp of approval on shelling out more than $250,000 to move two of its execs - who were tired of long drives to work....
L.I. EX-GOP BOSS GETS 2 YEARS IN JAIL
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amA federal judge on Long Island sentenced former Suffolk County GOP Chairman John Powell yesterday to two years behind bars for racketeering, extortion and operating a stolen-truck "chop shop." District...
IS B'KLYN BEEP TRYING TO STICK IT TO OLD FOE?
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amBROOKLYN Borough President Howard Golden has a lot of people wondering if he's going to step down early to keep an arch-foe from getting a shot at his job. Golden,...
PROTESTERS DUMP ON D.C. $$$ TALKS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A man wearing a cow costume - and driving a truck with a sign "World Bank Meat Stinks" - dumped four tons of manure on Pennsylvania Avenue yesterday...
GUY WITH TESTOSTERONE PUTS A STUD IN HER EAR
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amUniversity study reveals the male sex hormone actually improves guys' verbal abilities. Holy Macho Man! Testosterone may actually boost a man's ability to sweet-talk a woman, a new study says....
RUDY LIVID OVER DRAFT RELEASE OF COP REPORT
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will publicly release a draft of its scathing report on the NYPD - an unprecedented move that furious city officials slammed as illegal. The...
ON TV, IT'S GRIM AND BEAR IT
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amREMIND me not to turn on the cable business channels Monday. I don't need another day like yesterday. No sir! Watching the Dow and Nasdaq averages plummet on the cable...
'PUFFY': LEAKED 'LIES' COSTING ME FAIR TRIAL
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amSean "Puffy" Combs angrily insisted yesterday he's an innocent man - and his lawyer denied the rap mogul is the target of a new witness-tampering and perjury investigation. "I believe...
GOV'T LIES CAN'T POSTPONE A GRIM RECKONING
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amEVEN with all the nips, tucks, finagling and lies, the government had to admit yesterday that inflation is worse than it has been letting on. Surprise! Guess what? The 0.7...
BURGER BEHEMOTH EYES SUPER-SIZED RETAIL EXPANSION
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amWant a book with those fries? Burger champ McDonald's isn't satisfied with branching out by gobbling up restaurant chains like Boston Market, selling bottled ketchup in Europe and hawking its...
LONG AND SHORT OF IT: PATIENCE PAYS OFF
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe latest market crash illustrates one of the basic tenets for non-professional investors - it pays to think of the long haul. Despite the two-week Nasdaq sell-off, long-term technology investors...
APPLE'S GLUED TO THE NEWS AS PORTFOLIOS COME UNSTUCK
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amAll across the city, offices came to a complete stop yesterday as workers left their desks and crowded around TV sets to watch the stock market rout. With every other...
CABBY'S WIDOW PLEADS: FIND MY HUSBAND'S KILLER!
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe weeping widow of a livery cab driver who was killed yesterday collapsed in agony as she begged for help in finding whoever gunned down her husband three days before...
FIRED PRINCIPAL'S STUDENTS 'STRIKE'
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amStudents at Christ the King HS in Queens staged a mini-walkout yesterday over the firing of their principal. The school's board of trustees - headed by powerful Republican state Sen....
COP PLAYED DOC IN BID TO GET SUSPECT'S DNA
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amDesperate to stop a heinous string of rape-murders last year, Manhattan cops had a female detective disguised as a doctor try to get DNA evidence from the suspect. The unusual...
CHARITABLE CLINTONS OUTDO THE GIULIANIS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe Giulianis and the Clintons made roughly the same amount of money last year - around $400,000 - but the Clintons gave away three times more than the mayor and...
STOCKS SPLATTERED IN STUNNING BLOODBATH NASDAQ, DOW SUFFER RECORD POINT DROPS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amStock market investors stampeded for the exits yesterday, spooked by fears of inflation and higher interest rates. The flight hit the Nasdaq hardest, which suffered its worst point loss ever...
THEY TOOK A LICKIN' AND KEPT ON TICKIN'
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe grim, tired faces of traders hurrying out of the New York Stock Exchange said it all yesterday, as the big April stock sell-off continued. "I need some aspirin," growled...
ELIAN RESCUER ADRIFT HERO PARTED FROM FOUNDATION'S AIM
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amMIAMI. THE man who dove into the Atlantic Ocean to rescue raft boy Elian Gonzalez can't walk the streets of Miami. Sam Ciancio's life is in danger. "I've been threatened...
TAX SLACKERS GET 2 MORE DAYS FROM IRS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amTax procrastinators around the city can breathe a sigh of relief today - they have two extra days to file their returns. Some late filers, like Jennifer Spallone, 24, were...
JESUS STATUE SWIPED FROM B'KLYN CHURCH
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amA small metal statue of Jesus has been swiped from a Brooklyn church - the latest alarming incident in a wave of anti-Catholic bias crimes, cops said yesterday. The theft...
GOV'T APPEALS TO HAVE BOY TURNED OVER
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe government asked a federal appeals court yesterday to order Elian Gonzalez's Miami kin to hand the boy over to his father - who agreed to keep the tug-of-war kid...
DOCTOR STABBED PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND: COPS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amAn enraged married doctor repeatedly stabbed his pregnant nurse lover with a filled hypodermic needle outside a Bronx hospital last night in an apparent bid to induce an abortion, cops...
OAK WANTS NO PART OF THE KNICKS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Charles Oakley looked a lot like boxing promoter Don King yesterday - his hair teased to make it look like he put his finger in an electric socket....
CAMBY GIVES HIS VOTE TO MCGRADY
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amKNICK NOTES TORONTO - Marcus Camby probably has missed too many games to be a favorite for Sixth Man of the Year. But if his former Toronto buddy Tracy McGrady...
SWEENEY, ROYALS ON A ROLL
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amWhat team has the most wins in baseball, thanks to its ninth-inning heroics and late-game hitting? What young first baseman leads the American League in home runs and several other...
POSADA CATCHING FIRE
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amIf any teammate knew the agony Jorge Posada went through last year, it was Derek Jeter. The two had been the young, up-and-comers in the Yankee organization and forged a...
PANTHERS PROMISE MORE PAVEL
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amApparently, he was saving Pavel Bure for next season's exhibition games. How else can you comprehend why Panthers coach Terry Murray fastened his star right wing to the bench for...
NIEDERMAYER IN ARNOTT HOPING
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amSET TO GO:Devils' Scott Niedermayer (right) is ready to bang some bodies when he returns from 10-game suspension tomorrow. One key Devil returns to the ice tomorrow. Another hopes that...
HOW TO HIT THE BIG 3 PICK 3
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amWITH the Kentucky Derby just three weeks away, more than a dozen horses remain legitimate contenders for the "mile and a quarter without any water." That number will be winnowed...
FANS TO CHOOSE CENTURY'S BEST
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amFan balloting will begin today to honor the top horses, trainers and jockeys of the 20th century in New York. Balloting will continue through Saturday, May 6, with the leading...
'BAMA LINEMAN FEELS LIKE NEW KID ON BLOCK
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amAlabama offensive lineman Chris Samuels had been to New York two or three times before, a wide-eyed kid from Mobile awed by the big city, but this visit will be...
QUARTEY SUMS UP THE Y2K ATHLETE
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amLAS VEGAS - Ike Quartey could be some fighter, if only the guy would fight once in a while. He can fight well enough to beat just about anyone in...
ALEXANDER LOOKS GREAT TO BIG BLUE
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amDuring a phone conversation at mid-week, Ron Dayne excused himself when his call-waiting beeped. When he returned, he stated "That was the Giants on the line, checking in." Several weeks...
RAPTORS COACH: KNIGHT USED RACIAL SLUR
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Raptors coach Butch Carter found himself amidst a brewing controversy before last night's Knicks game after excerpts of his soon-to-be-released book branded his former coach at Indiana, Bobby...
JETS MIGHT MAKE DEAL FOR CINCY'S NO. 4 PICK
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amThe Jets, with an unprecedented four picks in the first round of today's NFL Draft, face a chance of a lifetime with such selection volume and talent pool. And, in...
DRUMMOND HANGS ON FOR ST. RAY
April 15, 2000 | 4:00am10 INNINGS St. Ray's6 Iona Prep5 Here's a friendly piece of advice to teams that must face Owen Drummond: You'd better get to him early. Yesterday, Iona Prep did, but...
MAGIC FOIL NEWMAN'S BIG NIGHT
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amMagic96 Nets88 Important, significant NBA basketball that impacted the playoff picture returned to the Meadowlands last night. Hard to believe the Nets were involved, huh? In what will be the...
JETER'S BAT FINALLY COMES ALIVE
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amFew sights could possibly have been more welcome for Joe Torre and the Yankees. The Bombers had labored through their first eight games with Derek Jeter struggling at the plate,...
OAK FEARS A REMATCH IN PLAYOFFS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amTORONTO - Before the game, ex-Knick enforcer Charles Oakley called current Knick enforcer Kurt Thomas "a tough-guy wannabe." The 36-year-old forward nearly got to prove it late in last night's...
BOBBY SAFE FOR NOW : PHILLIPS WON'T AX VALENTINE OVER RIPS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - In this whole Amazin' Mess that broke yesterday, the only thing that is known for certain is manager Bobby Valentine is not going to lose his job over...
HOW COULD BOBBY HAVE BEEN SON NAIVE?
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amCOULD someone who has spent three decades in public life be so careless? Bobby Valentine got a promise from a group of graduate students he had never met that nothing...
AIR CANADA DROPS BOMB ON KNICKS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amRaptors86 Knicks71 TORONTO - It was an excruciatingly long night for the Knicks and perhaps the foreshadow of an excruciatingly short playoff spring. Did somebody say one-and-done? It could happen...
FOR STARTERS, RUSCH EAGER TO PROVE HE BELONGS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00amPITTSBURGH - The topic wouldn't cease in the spring. Who is going to be the No. 5 starter? That is until 25-year-old left-hander Glendon Rusch stopped the discussion, making debate...
PIAZZA'S FIVE HITS (2 HRS) POWER METS
April 15, 2000 | 4:00am12 innings Mets8 Pirates5 PITTSBURGH - Before Al Leiter took the mound last night here, he told Jay Horwitz, the Mets' PR director, "I think I'm going to have to...