April 13, 2002
JETBLUE TAKES OFF IPO SKYROCKETS 67%; SOROS MAKES A MINT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amJetBlue Airways soared in its first day as a public company. The stock rallied 67 percent, one of the biggest first-day gains for an initial public offering since the dot-com...
L&L TAKES TWO FOR $164M
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amTwo office buildings - the office condominium at Metropolitan Tower at 142 W. 57th St. and 150 Fifth Ave. - have been sold to an investment group for approximately $164...
SITCOM JIM? YES, CAAN DO
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amJAMES Caan is going from "The Godfather" to the stepfather - with a smile on his face. The tough-guy actor, who played mobster Sonny Corleone in the classic Mafia movie,...
ELLEN READY TO START TALKING CHAT SHOW WILL START IF HER SITCOM IS BURIED
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amYOU can now add Ellen DeGeneres to the long laundry list of TV talk-show hosts. DeGeneres has signed a deal with Telepictures to host a daily, syndicated daytime talk show...
WILD ABOUT OZZY: WHY THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS RULES TV
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amIt's being hailed as the first bona fide TV phenomenon since the inaugural edition of "Survivor" in summer 2000. No other show since then has come close to generating the...
TOUR BUSES, FLYING HAM AND COPS... WELCOME TO MR. OSBOURNE'S NEIGHBORHOOD
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - There goes the bleeping neighborhood! Television and Ozzy Osbourne's posh Doheny Road neighborhood in Beverly Hills will never be the same in the wake of MTV's...
FACT OR FICTION?
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAs daughter Kelly laments in the TV show, Ozzy Osbourne is most notorious for chomping the head off a bat. This and other legends have shadowed the Prince of Darkness...
HOW TO GET THOSE @$#!& PETS TO BEHAVE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amIn a recent "Osbournes" episode on MTV, Sharon hired a pet therapist - to Ozzy's dismay - to address the issue of the family pets' relentless incontinence. In that spirit,...
CASHING IN ON SHOW'S SUCCESS
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amUnlike the Monkees or the Partridge Family, Ozzy Osbourne already had a devoted following and several million-selling albums under his black belt before he and his family went under the...
MAKING ART OUT OF THE ASHES: 9/11 WORKS GO ON DISPLAY - AND EVERYONE'S A WINNER
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amFor the last 82 years, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards have never had a theme. "It's always been whatever kids wanted to do or say," says B.J. Adler, who...
HARMONIC CONVERGENCE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amWhen Francisco Nuñez was growing up poor and lonely in Washington Heights - and his best friend was a second-hand piano - he wondered what it would be like to...
UNPLUCKY MUSIC MAN LOSES $1.6M VIOLIN
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAn 18th-century violin worth $1.6 million was reported missing yesterday from an Upper West Side musical instrument store, police said. Christophe Landon, owner of Christophe Landon Rare Violins Inc., on...
BAIL DENIED FOR BRONX 'COP KILLER'
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Bronx man was held without bail yesterday on charges of killing an NYPD narcotics cop. Luis Gonzalez - also known as Louis Gomez - was arraigned in Bronx Supreme...
FEMALE BOMBER LIVED IN REFUGEE CAMP
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - The homicide bomber who killed at least six people yesterday was a young Palestinian woman who may have been seeking revenge for Israel's siege of the refugee camp...
IT MAY BE 'GOODBYE, COLUMBUS CIRCLE' FOR TRUMP
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amTHE transfer of power from Rudy Giuliani to Mike Bloomberg might not be good news for Donald Trump. Trump outgunned the competition to win the property at 2 Columbus Circle,...
HOLLYWOOD STARS ARE ENGAGING COUPLES
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amSpring fever has hit Hollywood. Actor Benjamin Bratt has popped the question to Talisa Soto after five short months of post-Julia Roberts dating and Pamela Anderson got betrothed to rock...
FAMILY OF HEROES AT LAST BIDS FAREWELL TO THEIR INTREPID SON
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amSeveral thousand people stood motionless in silent tribute to fallen firefighter hero Jimmy Riches outside St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday morning. Hundreds of uniformed firefighters and cops standing at attention formed...
SOTHEBY'S BIG'S RETRIAL BID DASHED
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA federal judge yesterday slammed Sotheby's mogul Alfred Taubman as the "driving force" behind a massive price-fixing scheme, tossing the disgraced CEO's bid for a new trial. "The evidence revealed...
THIS HORIFIC ATTACK MAY IGNITE BUSH POWDER KEG
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amANALYSISTHE latest homicide bombing in Jerusalem targeted Israelis, but it poses more of a challenge to President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell. There is no doubt that Israel...
TERROR STRIKES BUSTLING MAIN MARKET IN HAIL OF GLASS, METAL . . . AND BLOOD
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Jerusalem's streets were half-empty yesterday afternoon - most shops and coffeehouses had closed by 3 p.m. for the Sabbath - when an enormous explosion once again rocked the...
ARABS BRING PROTESTS TO BIG APPLE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAbout 1,000 protesters lined the streets of Times Square yesterday to demand Israel withdraw its troops from the West Bank. "Peace can be achieved by one thing - justice," said...
DIETER EYES FAT CITY IN 'SNACK-SNEAK' SUIT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amArrrr, weighty! A Manhattan woman has filed a $50 million class action lawsuit against the makers of Pirate's Booty snacks, claiming she's suffered "emotional distress" because the corn and rice...
DOWNTOWN BRIDGES THE GAP ONCE AGAIN
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA key downtown pedestrian link is expected to be open by the end of the month. The South Bridge, which carried pedestrians across West Street from Liberty Street to One...
POLS TO 'BLOOD MONEY' SAUDIS: KISS YOUR U.S. ASSETS GOODBYE!
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - New York officials yesterday demanded the feds freeze the U.S. accounts of Saudi King Fahd after he contributed to a telethon for Palestinian "martyrs" while the uproar grew...
LOOTER AT WTC GETS 10 YRS. TO ROT IN JAIL
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amGround Zero was still aflame and littered with corpses when rescue workers spotted Roland Abarrategui taking souvenir snapshots of body parts - his two shoulder bags stuffed with looted watches,...
DIOCESE GIVES UP 'PERV' LIST
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAfter weeks of prodding, the Diocese of Brooklyn yesterday began giving authorities the names of priests accused of molesting children. The 15 names were delivered to the district attorneys' offices...
FIREMEN SOUNDING THE ALARM ON $$ CUTS
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe Bloomberg administration is considering closing fire companies as a cost-cutting move, sources said yesterday. The mere possibility of such a controversial move had fire union leaders outraged - charging...
OUTRAGE AT 9/11 SNUB PUSHES SENATOR TO FLIP ON MEDALS
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Sen. Patrick Leahy flip-flopped under fire yesterday and agreed to take up a bill next week that would give Medal of Valor awards to the 9/11 heroes. The...
MIKE RIPS AIDE OVER RUDY DISS
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amMayor Bloomberg has chewed out one of his top commissioners for making a negative crack about the Giuliani administration, The Post has learned. Sources said Bloomberg told Andrew Alper, president...
CHILLING CODE WORD: COPS: TERROR SHEIK'S AIDE WANTED TO SEE MORE 'WEDDINGS'
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA top aide to blind terror sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman used secret code words to push for new terror attacks, authorities charged yesterday. Federal prosecutors say Staten Island postal worker Ahmed...
ISLAMIC RANSOM
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON -The Bush administration helped pay a whopping ransom to Islamic guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden in the Philippines to free two American missionaries - but the first-ever U.S.-sponsored...
SOLDIERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS ON TALI-RAT'S BLINDFOLD
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - U.S. Special Forces wrote "s---head" on the blindfold of prisoner John Walker Lindh and posed for pictures with their American Taliban trophy in Afghanistan, legal sources said yesterday....
DRUG SMUGGLE WAS 'MULE' KID'S TICKET HOME
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA 12-year-old boy living in Nigeria with his grandparents turned to drug-smuggling - swallowing 87 heroin-filled condoms - in a desperate bid to be reunited with his mother in the...
QUEENS CAR PASSENGER KILLED IN HEAD-ON HORROR
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe passenger in a speeding car was killed in a fiery crash yesterday when the vehicle jumped the divider and slammed head-on into a truck on a major Queens thoroughfare,...
VICTIM LIVED IN FEAR OF HULKING FIEND
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amDalvis Small-White lived in fear of her estranged husband. Sean David White was a hulking figure at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds. He had a criminal record, a gun, and a...
CROWN HTS. RIOTER COPS PLEA: ADMITS INCITING SLAY WITH 'LET'S GET THE JEWS'
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe black man who incited the 1991 Crown Heights race riot that resulted in the stabbing death of a Hasidic scholar cut his losses yesterday, pleading guilty and agreeing to...
POWELL MET BY A MASSACRE: BLAST KOS HIS CONFAB WITH ARAFAT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amSecretary of State Colin Powell last night scrubbed plans to meet Yasser Arafat today after a woman homicide bomber gave Powell a bloody welcome to Jerusalem - killing at least...
HUBBY KILLS WIFE, THEN SELF FOUND DEAD IN B'KLYN AFTER PA. MURDER
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA gunman who killed his estranged wife by shooting her in the head in her Pennsylvania home was found dead last night in a Brooklyn hotel room, police sources said....
THE $220M JACKPOT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amYou could be $220 million richer if you picked the winning numbers in last night's Big Game Lotto drawing. Officials say they'll announce today if anyone has won. The odds...
9/11 'SCAMMER' IS EXTRADITED
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amA Florida man was extradited to New York yesterday after filing a fake death certificate for a nephew he claimed died in the World Trade Center, authorities said. Albert Dross,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amHe missed the school bus, so an 8-year-old Tampa, Fla., boy hopped behind the wheel of a stolen car, picked up a friend and drove to school. "He said he...
VIEQUES MAYOR HAILED AT HALL
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe mayor of Vieques yesterday was given a hero's welcome at City Hall. Both Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller expressed support for the campaign to end the...
WOOD LOOKS TO BE WIDE OPEN
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amIt's "Kentucky or bust" today at Aqueduct for the eight 3-year-old colts racing a mile-and-an-eighth in the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial, which shakes down as the most crucial Derby...
POWER SEEK MORE BALANCE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amPower coach Pat Farmer figures the pieces fell into place last year. "On paper, we were right about where we should've been," said Farmer, who led the Power into the...
WITH LOW ON HIS WAY OUT, SLATS SHOULD TURN TO MESS
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amPHILADELPHIA - He has been a gentleman, he has been honest, he has been a credit to New York and to the Ranger organization. But Ron Low hasn't been able...
BIRDIES LEAVE HIM BJORN AGAIN
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amNOTEBOOK AUGUSTA - Denmark's Thomas Bjorn set a Masters record for consecutive birdies to start a round yesterday when he opened with birdies on the first five holes. Bjorn, who...
MING PLAYS 'PERFECT'
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - Yao Ming played the perfect game Wednesday night. In the first game of the Chinese Basketball Association championship round, the 7-6 center who's expected to be one of...
VIJAY CARDS ROUND 'TWO' SINGH ABOUT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - On an historic and moving final round of Masters competition for Arnold Palmer, the second round of the 2002 Masters stood essentially still yesterday with little in the...
EMOTION RULES AT KING'S LAST ROUND
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - By noon yesterday, more than an hour before Arnold Palmer's final Masters tee time, enormous crowds began to swell along the ropes around the first tee box, adjacent...
TIME TO CHEER GARCIA'S GAME
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amAUGUSTA - If you have ever played golf, watched golf or heard the name Arnold Palmer, you rooted for the 72-year-old legend yesterday as he began his final competitive round...
FOILED AT FENWAY YANK BATS ARE NO HELP AS BOSOX BEAT EL DUQUE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amRed Sox 3Yankees 2 BOSTON - Orlando Hernandez' neck problem that forced him to be scratched from a start Thursday never progressed to the point where he needed to support...
KNEE STRAIN FORCES CEDENO TO BENCH
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amMET NOTES Although Roger Cedeno isn't worried about his strained left knee, he said it feels "weak" every time he takes off running. Cedeno's weak knee forced Bobby Valentine to...
SHANE'S TIME RUNNING OUT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - With two on and two out in the sixth inning last night, Joe Torre showed faith once again in Shane Spencer. He provided a little more hope and...
ISLES HOPING THAT RANGERS HELP OUT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amIsles 3Lightning 1 TAMPA - The Islanders were able to take care of business here last night against the Lightning, so today they'll have to get used to three words...
D'AMICO DA MAN FOR METS SHUTS OUT EXPOS OVER EIGHT FOR WIN
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amMets 2Expos 1 On Sept. 13, 2000 at Shea, Bobby Valentine witnessed Jeff D'Amico, then a Brewer, throw eight scoreless innings, while striking out 10. That's when Valentine first envisioned...
JASON'S BAT FINALLY GETTING IN THE SWING
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - There were big Yankee voices wondering what had happened to the Jason Giambi who struck fear in their hearts when he played for the A's. A...
POSADA'S SHOULDER CALLED OK
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES BOSTON - It appears the Yankees sidestepped danger regarding Jorge Posada's bruised right shoulder. When Posada was forced out of Thursday's game in the seventh because the pain...
KNICKS ARE ALL EYES FOR NEW TALENT
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amBOSTON - With this summer's free-agent class one of the weakest ever, Latrell Sprewell knows Knick GM Scott Layden has his work cut out for him in trying to reconstruct...
RJ GIVES NETS AN ADVANTAGE
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amJust consider it a case where a three goes into the two. As in Richard Jefferson, a 6-7 small forward playing the two guard spot when the Nets need size...
STRICKLAND DOIN' FINE SETTING UP
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amThe kids glared into 5-foot-9 Scott Strickland's eyes, trying to blaze a hole in his head. They were the worst kids in the Klein, Texas, school district. They didn't know...
DEVILS WOULD BE HAPPY TO SETTLE FOR 95
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amThey fell short of a sixth straight 100-point season, but the Devils like the sound of 95. "That would be a respectable season, I think," Scott Stevens said. "Anyone who...
MEADOW STAR DIES
April 13, 2002 | 4:00amMeadow Star, the unbeaten 2-year-old filly champion in 1990, died Thursday from complications foaling a colt by Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus. The colt also died. Meadow Star, by Meadowlake,...