July 12, 2003
WHICH WAY IS UP? MARTS LOOK TO GREENSPAN, EARNINGS FOR DIRECTION
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street is looking for a turning point next week to help guide its growing piles of limp cash. Traders have been moving stocks up and down and sideways all...
XMAS IN JULY: VERIZON ORDERED TO REHIRE 2,300
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amMore than 2,300 Verizon workers laid off here last Christmas are getting rehired due to a technical bungle by the phone company. An arbitrator ordered Verizon to give the New...
NEWS ENQUIRES: ZUCKERMAN WOOS SUPERMARKET TAB EDITOR
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amAmerican Media Editorial Director Steve Coz is in talks to take a high-level editorial job at the Daily News, The Post has learned. News owner Mort Zuckerman has been searching...
MARTS LOOK TO FED HEAD FOR DIRECTION
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amWall Street is looking for a turning point next week to help guide its growing piles of limp cash. Traders have been moving stocks up and down and sideways all...
DUTTON GIVES HIS BEST SHOT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - USA Network won the race to produce TV's first movie about the Washington D.C. sniper attacks. Now the next hurdle: Will this history-writing-on-the-run be accurate? "We present...
POOLISH PLEASURE; GETTIN' SWIMMY WIT' IT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTHINK you're too cool for the city pool? Get over yourself: New York's 33 outdoor pools are the answer to The Long Hot Summer (unless, of course, you like Jersey...
CHEAT SHEET
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amCheat Sheet has established itself as the primary source of news for people waking up from long-term comas.WELL-RESTED A 39-year-old Arkansas man has awakened from a coma after 19 years...
FREE FOR ALL
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA moment's paws Tail and tongues will be a waggin' today at Broadway Barks 5, the annual fundraising effort and adoptathon for homeless animals that always brings out the high-wattage...
A NEW ZEALAND STATE OF MIND
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe Datsuns are New Zealand's hottest export since Split Enz, and D4 is also getting some play these days, but there's a lot of other music coming out of the...
P.S. I LOVE YOU : PARTY PEOPLE ARE WARMING TO QUEENS DANCE BASH
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amIt's the hottest party in New York City - and not just because it requires you to dance under the blazing afternoon sun in 100-degree heat. Last Saturday, P.S. 1...
'SWAN' TO RUN
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amAdd Bruce Springsteen to the legion of "The Summer of the Swans" fans: He's letting Theatreworks/USA sample his "Born to Run" in the show - for free. "We called Bruce's...
RAINES: 'LANDMINE' BLAIR RUINED MY REIGN
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amFormer New York Times executive editor Howell Raines said yesterday he never knew Jayson Blair was duping the paper and called the disgraced reporter "a landmine" on his march to...
MOM IS KILLED IN HOME HOLDUP
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amBlood stains a Rye Brook home where a woman was murdered yesterday. Robert Miller Slay suspect. A mother of two was shot to death and her husband critically wounded during...
GAY CON PUT 'HIT' ON LADY RIVAL: COPS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amIt was a May-December gay prison romance - and it led to a foiled murder-for-hire plot, Manhattan prosecutors charged yesterday. The bizarre story started in 2000, when the older man...
HOT DOGGERS' BUN TO PICK WITH BAT BRAT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amDoggone it, the wurst is not over. The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council is steaming over the baseball-bat clobbering of an Italian sausage by Pittsburgh Pirate first baseman Randall...
DUCHOVNY PULLS THE 'SEX'-FILES
July 12, 2003 | 4:00am"X-Files" star David Duchovny has ditched his search for little green men in favor of sex with the gals of "Sex and the City." "He might be heating up the...
TRASHY TRINKET PEDDLER DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTHE Franklin Mint has to get the Academy Award of tastelessness. They are not my words; I wish they were. They came from the old sage Raoul Felder, known as...
GO FIGURE: TALKING BILL DOLL FOR SALE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amWhat a doll! The Talking Bill Clinton Action Figure - all 12 inches of it - hits novelty stores and Internet outlets this week just days after the former president's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amShe may have said, "I do," but she doesn't remember, so a judge granted Alma Tremmel, 32, of Altoona, Pa., an annulment of her two-month-old marriage. Tremmel was hospitalized in...
HAMAS' KIDNAP THREATS SHAKE TRUCE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - A new obstacle appeared on the "road map" to Mideast peace yesterday because of Palestinian demands that Israel free thousands of jailed Muslim militants. Hamas, the largest of...
DI FUND $OUR ON MINT; $25M SUIT FORCES CHARITY TO TIGHTEN ITS BELT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amLOS ANGELES - Princess Diana's charitable fund froze its assets and stopped doling out new grants, officials said yesterday, because of a legal brawl with The Franklin Mint. Trustees of...
SCAMMED WIDOW WANTS HER 80G
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe cancer-stricken 79-year-old Long Island widow who claims she was bilked out of her life savings by a heartless scam artist said he ignored her sickness and used the cash...
HARVARD AXES HS STUDENT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA Harvard-bound New Jersey teenager who successfully sued her high school because she wanted to be the sole valedictorian at graduation has been dumped by the Ivy League university, apparently...
TEACHER KEPT TOT INSIDE CLOSET: SUIT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA little Brooklyn boy and his mother are suing his Head Start program for $4 million, claiming he was locked in a "coffin-size" closet that was shut with duct tape....
AIRPORTS BOOTING SHOE HASSLES
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Travelers will no longer have to remove their shoes before going through security airport checkpoints, the feds said yesterday - ending a rule that started after the arrest...
RAP BIGSHOT TERRORIZED IN S.I. HOME ROB
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA trio of gunmen stormed into the Staten Island mansion of chart-busting rap producer Samuel "Tone" Barnes, held his family at gunpoint, then took off with jewelry, sports memorabilia and...
JUDGE FINDS OSAMA-SADDAM LINK
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - A federal judge helping to rebuild Iraq's judicial system says he's come up with an intriguing document linking Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden. Federal appellate Judge Gilbert...
UGANDA'S AIDS KIDS MOVE DUBYA DEEPLY
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amAn emotional President Bush yesterday hugged AIDS patients at an Uganda clinic and heard a children's chorus - many of them AIDS orphans - sing "America the Beautiful" as he...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amQueens A 29-year-old man was shot and killed early yesterday after he struggled with thee armed men who forced their way into his Lindenwood home, police said. In an apparent...
MYSTERY MAN LANDS ON PREZ PLANE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amIn a worrisome security breach, a mystery man managed to sneak aboard the White House press charter plane, fly from South Africa to Uganda, and get into the hotel where...
IN DEEP I DO-DO; HUBBY JUGGLED 2 WIVES FOR 11 YEARS: COPS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amHe had the urge to merge - and merge. But when Anthony Guarino, 64, tied the knot with a Connecticut woman 11 years ago, he was still hitched to a...
MIKE: I'M RIGHT MAN TO LEAD N.Y.
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amSUN VALLEY, Idaho - Mayor Bloomberg yesterday told a crowd of high-powered business tycoons that New York City won't get a better chief executive. Speaking behind closed doors at the...
CRASH ROCKS ZELLWEGER AND HER GUY
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amOddball rock-and-screen lovebirds Jack White and Renee Zellweger were taking a few days off after the White Stripes guitarist was injured in a car crash in Detroit this week, the...
SLAY PROBE IN DUMPING OF DEAD TOT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amQueens prosecutors yesterday mulled murder charges against the woman who allegedly dumped the body of her 8-year-old foster child in the trash - and also began probing the celebrity-linked children's...
MOUSE MEAL GROSSES OUT CUSTOMER
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amEeeeek! A Staten Island man went berserk yesterday inside a Wendy's restaurant in The Bronx after he swallowed part of a dead mouse mixed in his bowl of chili. Charles...
QNS. HUBBY REFUSES TO FREE HOSTAGE WIFE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA tense standoff continued last night in the Richmond Hill section of Queens as cops kept a vigil over the home of a woman who was being held hostage inside...
CIA BIG: NUKE FLUB'S MY FAULT ; TENET ADMITS HE OK'D BAD IRAQ CLAIM FOR BUSH SPEECH
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amCIA chief George Tenet last night took the blame for the "mistake" of letting President Bush's State of the Union speech include the now-discredited claim that Saddam Hussein was trying...
BRASS BIG BUSTED; FRAUD RAP OVER 113G BILL
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA respected top city cop was busted yesterday on a fraud charge relating to nearly $113,000 worth of "personal" telephone calls male prisoners made to his Manhattan apartment. The shocking...
CAMPBELLS LIKE THE ODDS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTrainer Jim Campbell finds himself in an enviable position for tonight's $1 million Meadowlands Pace - not only does he have two horses in the race but the entry of...
COP-UNION BIG TWEAKS FDNY
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amFire Department officials "spoke before they got their facts straight" in a flap over the alleged near-drowning of a firefighter in a cop bungle, the police union said last night....
COPS WAITING OUT WIFE-HOSTAGE TAKER
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amA tense standoff continued last night in the Richmond Hill section of Queens as cops kept a vigil over the home of a woman who was being held hostage inside...
BASEBALL SUSPENDS BAT BRAT 3 GAMES
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amMajor League Baseball yesterday whacked Randall Simon with a three-game suspension for the Pittsburgh Pirate hot dog's role in hitting a woman in an Italian sausage costume with a bat....
'SOPRANO' A MOB PRINCESS BRIDE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amJamie-Lynn Sigler's ex-manager is married to the mob - he and Sigler wed last night in a romantic twilight ceremony witnessed by members of the "Sopranos" family. Sigler - who...
AIRPORTS BOOTING FOOTWEAR HASSLES
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amWASHINGTON - Travelers will no longer have to remove their shoes before going through security airport checkpoints, the feds said yesterday - ending a rule that started after the arrest...
LOVESICK GAY JAILBIRD TRIED TO RUB OUT LADY RIVAL: COPS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amIt was a May-December gay prison romance - and it led to a foiled murder-for-hire plot, Manhattan prosecutors charged yesterday. The bizarre story started in 2000, when the older man...
YANKS STILL CHASING SETUP MAN
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - With Ugueth Urbina a Marlin on the same night Mariano Rivera jammed a foot and was forced to pitch two innings, the Yankees' search for a right-handed setup...
MARIANO TOUGHS IT OUT ; RIVERA SETS UP, CLOSES OUT VICTORY OVER JAYS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 8 Blue Jays 5 TORONTO - Mariano Rivera's right foot stuck to the SkyDome carpet for a nano-second. However, watching the AL's best closer and the Yankees' first-half MVP...
GOOD MOURNING FOR JASON, NETS ; JERSEY SIGNS 'ZO TO 4-YEAR DEAL THAT KEEPS KIDD HOME
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amJason Kidd is staying. Alonzo Mourning is coming. The healing is starting. In twin decisions that assure the Nets favored status again in the East, All-Star point guard Jason Kidd...
CHSAA CUTS INTO RICE'S TRAVELING
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amOne of the perks of being among the country's top high-school basketball programs is that you have the opportunity to travel to the best tournaments, wherever they may be. Rice...
EPICENTRE GEARED UP FOR 'GREEN'
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amIn the absence of one or two particular standouts, today's Grade 2, $150,000 Bowling Green Handicap, at a mile-and-three-eighths over Belmont Park's Widener turf course, drew a field of 10...
NOAH SHINES IN SPOTLIGHT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amABCD NOTES Joakim Noah's potential has never been questioned. His toughness and desire, however, have. The 6-foot-10 former Poly Prep star picked a good time to answer those questions. The...
CAMPBELL BROTHERS LIKE THE ODDS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTrainer Jim Campbell finds himself in an enviable position for tonight's $1 million Meadowlands Pace - not only does he have two horses in the race but the entry of...
POWER HAVE TO TURN INTO ROAD WARRIORS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amIf the 6-7-2 Power are to continue their winning ways, they must do it on the road. After two solid home victories, the Power will play their next three games...
EAST TAKES AIM AT WEST STREAK
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amDoes the Eastern Conference have any shot? That's the question going into today's WNBA All-Star Game, to be played at Madison Square Garden for the second time in its five-year...
JUAN BLASTS YANKS: SAYS HE HATED STINT IN BRONX, WANTS REVENGE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - Juan Acevedo touched all the bases yesterday when discussing his short but dreadful Yankee stint. The Blue Jays' trainers are better than their Yankee counterparts. George Steinbrenner wanted...
CLEMENS WON'T GO VS. RED SOX
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Roger Clemens won't get to make adjustments on Red Sox slugger David Ortiz or hook up with Pedro Martinez when the Yankees visit Fenway Park July...
FREE-AGENT LEETCH MAY SURFACE IN PHILLY
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe stealth free agency of Brian Leetch is not only about to register on the NHL radar screen, it may well do so in Philadelphia. Multiple sources have told The...
METROSTARS CALL ON ADDO TO HELP DEPLETED DEFENSE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amAfter an ill-advised red card landed Joe Addo in the MetroStars' doghouse, it's taken him almost a year to get back on the field. Today, he'll try to steady the...
ARBITRATORS TRAIN EYES ON QUESTEC
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Assuming Tom Glavine came out of yesterday's side session all right, the veteran is scheduled to start tomorrow on three days' rest. Glavine, the self-admitted "poster boy" against...
A MATTER OF TIME: ARMANDO A GONER ONLY QUESTION IS WHEN
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amThey happen every year around this time with Armando Benitez. Rumors of new destinations abound and possible trades are reported for the Met closer. Nothing ever happens. This year the...
'ZO MAKES NETS GROW LOT TALLER
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amThe way Dikembe Mutombo envisions it, the Nets' front line at times could go 7-2, 6-10, 6-9 - Mutombo, Mourning, Martin. "That's one possibility," Mutombo said with obvious glee at...
GOOD MOURNING ; FOR JASON, NETS ; JERSEY SIGNS 'ZO TO 4-YEAR DEAL THAT KEEPS KIDD HOME
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amJason Kidd is staying. Alonzo Mourning is coming. The healing is starting. In twin decisions that assure the Nets favored status again in the East, All-Star point guard Jason Kidd...
BUT NO GUARANTEES FOR EMBATTLED SCOTT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amHAPPY faces. See them on display as early as Wednesday, when Jason Kidd steps forward and officially re-signs with the Nets, swearing he never really wanted to leave, that everything...
DOC: ALONZO'S PLAY SHOULD BE LIMITED
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amAlonzo Mourning can resume his career and be a productive player for the Nets, but he cannot be the same forceful, iron-man athlete he was as an opponent of the...
SCRIMMAGE SHOWS LAMPE STILL HAS LOTS TO LEARN
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amLast week, Maciej Lampe got a tattoo on his right ankle -a picture of a basketball inside a cross, with the No. 30 inside. Lampe does not want to forget...
QUESTEC UNDER FIRE FROM ANGRY UMPIRES
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTom Glavine will start tomorrow on three days' rest, the first time he's done so in more than four years. But while nothing can be done about QuesTec prior to...
METROS CALL ON ADDO
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amAfter an ill-advised red card landed Joe Addo in the MetroStars' doghouse, it's taken him almost a year to get back on the field. Today, he'll try to steady the...
TELFAIR PROVES HIS POINT
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amABCD NOTES Sebastian Telfair talked to plenty of people this week, but one of the few he actively sought out was OJ Mayo, a freshman from Cincinnati. "I remember being...
BENITEZ READY TO PACK BAGS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amMET NOTES Rumors about Armando Benitez' departure are an annual ritual. But even Benitez' agent, Mike Powers, admits there's a better chance than ever that his client is in his...
RAUL SHOWS SOME LIFE
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amYankees 8 Blue Jays 5 TORONTO - Joe Torre returned Raul Mondesi to the lineup last night against the Blue Jays after not starting him Thursday evening in Cleveland, where...
ACEVEDO'S ANGRY OVER BRONX DAYS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES TORONTO - Juan Acevedo touched all the bases yesterday when discussing his short, dreadful Yankees stint. The Blue Jays' trainers are better than their Yankee counterparts, he said....
URBINA DEAL SHUTS OUT YANKS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amTORONTO - With Ugueth Urbina a Marlin, the Yankees' search for a right-handed setup man continues in a market where Urbina was the gem. "When they made it very clear...
ART'S MAD, AND HOWE ; BLOWS HIS STACK AFTER PHILS RIP SLOPPY METS
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amPhillies 10Mets 3 Where do you want to even begin with this one? You could start with Aaron Heilman's worst start as a Met. Or with the Phillies' six-run fifth...
THREE-CUP MAN DANEYKO HAPPY TO GO OUT ON TOP
July 12, 2003 | 4:00amMore than 20 minutes into a soliloquy filled with laughter and tears, it dawned on Ken Daneyko to get around to why he was at the Meadowlands to begin (or...