June 28, 2004
AARON TAKING SWING AT N.Y.C. EATERIES
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amHome-run hero Henry Aaron is ready to swing for the fences in New York. The all-time Major League Baseball home-run champion is planning to open nine Church's Chicken and three...
M'SOFT REPRIEVE - GETS TEMPORARY EU STAY ON ANTITRUST DECISION
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amMicrosoft got some breathing space in its battle with European Union regulators yesterday after they temporarily suspended a landmark decision against the software giant. The decision came just one day...
MGM FAILS TO SEAL SONY DEAL BEFORE SHAREHOLDER MEETING
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amAlthough sale talks continue with suitors, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is unlikely to announce a deal to sell the fabled film studio at tomorrow's shareholder meeting, The Post has learned. Japanese conglomerate Sony...
TRIAL BY TELEVISION - OPENING THE LACI CURTAIN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00am"The Trial of Scott Peterson" [] (Three stars) Tonight at 8 on A&E ALMOST as riveting as an Ann Rule book, tonight's A&E special, "The Trial of Scott Peterson, (A...
SPIKE GETS IN THE RING
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amULTIMATE Fighting Championship, the controversial pay-per-view fight club, is spawning a new reality series from the people behind "American Chopper" and "Survivor." The new show, "The Ultimate Fighter," is slated...
DEVIL IN DISGUISE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amHE'S pure Evel. Here's a first look at "Evel Knievel," TNT's highly anticipated movie about the life and times of daredevil Evel Knievel. "CSI" star George Eads plays Knievel (inset)...
STARR REPORT
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amHonoring Art, at last Well, they finally got around to inducting Art Carney into The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame this past Saturday - seven months...
TAUT MORALITY TALE VEILED AS COMING-OF AGE DRAMA
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amTHE STRAITS At the 59E59 Theater, 59 E. 59 St. Through Sunday. Call Ticket Central (212) 279-4200. FOUR army brats have a lifechanging summer at a military base far from...
DRESS CODE CRISIS - NEW RULES FOR PARTIES CONFUSE EVERYONE; HOW TO DECODE THE INVITATION - TRANSLATION: FESTIVE DRESS DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD WEAR A HULA SKIRT
June 28, 2004 | 4:00am'I feel that maybe I should put a tomato in my hair . . . or something.' - Astrid Munoz NOTHING strikes fear in the heart of even the most...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBROOKLYN * Two men were shot and wounded yesterday in a Crown Heights grocery store, police said. The men walked into the store at Albany Avenue and Pacific Street at...
SENATE VOTE COVERS THE 'TRACKS' OF PONY-LOVING POLS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amALBANY - Lawmakers last week couldn't pass a new state budget - but they did secretly agree to repeal a law disclosing the names of politicians who get free racetrack...
SILVER: GOV KILLED DEATH-PENALTY LAW
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amASSEMBLY Speaker Sheldon Silver is blaming Gov. Pataki for last week's court decision tossing out New York's death-penalty law. Silver, who is pro-capital punishment, told The Post that it was...
NEW MEASURES TOO LATE FOR VICTIM OF HORROR SURGERY
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amDisfigured by two scars and a deep dent in his skull after doctors operated on the wrong side of his brain, former New York firefighter Kevin Walsh could be a...
BIG APPLE ACCLAIMED AS THE ART CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe city with the biggest heart is now the city with the best art. The Big Apple has been named the nation's top destination to see great works of art....
O.J. STILL LYING ABOUT MONEY: NICOLE'S DAD
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amLOU BROWN was talking on the phone from a house in which the main room is dominated by a huge portrait of his late daughter, Nicole Brown Simpson. Padding around...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Virginia woman was busted for "crimes against nature" - after cops caught her having sex in her car. Keia Horton, 22, of Newport News, considered fighting the state felony,...
A GAY DAY FOR ALL - 'PARADE SHOWS THAT WE'RE EVERYWHERE'
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amPride was on parade yesterday as thousands of New Yorkers marched to celebrate gay culture and support equal rights regardless of sexual preference. Under sunny skies, the 35th annual Gay...
SHARK SCARE ON L.I. BEACH
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amLifeguards ordered swimmers from the water after a shark was sighted yesterday off Long Beach, L.I. . A fisherman spotted the shark and radioed a lifeguard about 10:30 a.m., said...
STADIUM WOULD CLEAR GRIDIRON GRIDLOCK: CITY
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amMove the Jets to Manhattan and watch traffic practically disappear. That's the word from city planners who predict that a mere eight cars with fans would cross the Triborough Bridge...
FERRER PANS BLOOMBERG'S REBATE PLAN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amFiring his first political shot since declaring his candidacy for City Hall in 2005, Fernando Ferrer yesterday accused Mayor Bloomberg of sacrificing public services in order to give New Yorkers...
THE BUCKS STOP HERE - KERRYS WOULD BE RICHEST 1ST COUPLE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amDemocrat John Kerry's wife, Teresa, is a billionaire - and if he's elected president, they'd be the richest family ever to live in the White House, a new report says....
HOLD THE PHONE: CELLULAR RAYS KILL SPERM
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amMen who regularly carry a cellphone may have their sperm count reduced by as much as 30 percent, an alarming new study reveals. And those who keep the phone on...
KIN COMPLETE THE PITCHER - JOSÉ BEATS METS AS WIFE & KIDS CHEER
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amJust days after José Contreras' wife and daughters were smuggled out of Cuba, the pitcher provided a storybook ending yesterday by throwing the best game of his pinstripe career as...
L.I. MAN IN SLAY OF B'KLYN WOMAN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman was stabbed to death yesterday during a furious argument with an older man in his Long Island apartment, police said. April Henderson, 35, was found by cops...
TERRORISTS NAB 'MARINE' - THREATEN TO BEHEAD HIM IN VILE VIDEO
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBloodthirsty Iraqi terrorists said yesterday they had captured a Marine after luring him from his base - and would behead him unless all Iraqi prisoners were freed. A chilling video...
SHED-DING INHIBITIONS - BUILDERS FLOUT CITY RULES FOR SCAFFOLDS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe Buildings Department isn't doing enough to force private contractors to remove scaffolding once construction is complete, according to an audit obtained by The Post. A random survey of 125...
TERRORISTS GRAB MARINE - LURE HIM FROM BASE, THREATEN NEW BEHEADING
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBloodthirsty Iraqi terrorists said yesterday they captured a Marine after luring him from his base - and will behead him unless the United States frees all Iraqi prisoners. A chilling...
NEW DRAMA IN BROADWAY STRIKE TALKS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amCall it an intermission. Talks between and Actors' Equity and Broadway producers broke down late last night, putting strike talks in limbo. The midnight strike deadline passed, but the shows...
GAZA BLAST COLLAPSES ISRAELI BASE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amJERUSALEM - Palestinian terrorists last night hit a deadly new low - secretly digging a tunnel under a crucial Israeli outpost in the Gaza Strip and then detonating a massive...
TWO WOUNDED IN SWEET 16 SHOOTING
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Sweet 16 party at a Brooklyn church turned bloody yesterday when two teens were shot in a dispute with a group of other youths, police said. Carlos Marmalejo, 17,...
SADDAM COULD FACE COURT SOON
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amComing soon to an Iraqi court: Saddam Hussein. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said yesterday that Saddam would be charged by the new Iraq government as early as Friday, two days...
TRASH BIN LADEN WITH BOMB PROTECTION
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA growing number of bomb-proof garbage bins have sprouted at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in an effort to thwart any plans by terrorists to put explosive devices inside...
IT'S OFFICIAL: WE'RE ALL ART
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe city with the biggest heart is also the city with the best art. The Big Apple has been named the nation's top destination to see great works of art....
CANCER PATIENT READY TO GO THE EXTRA MILE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amPaul Nicholls calls the broken arm that helped doctors diagnose his cancer a lucky break - and he went on to create a New York City Marathon team as a...
TIX BLITZ ON FRITZ - SCOFFLAWS BEAT FINES ON SUMMONS OVERKILL
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe Big Apple's most notorious parking scofflaws owe more than half a million dollars in fines - but the city may never see a dime because the cars were often...
L.I. GENIUS, 15, PENTAGON'S YOUNGEST SECRET WEAPON
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA 15-year-old Long Island student has become the youngest person ever to receive a Ph.D. fellowship from the Pentagon. Alia Sabur turned down a NASA fellowship in favor of a...
COP'S NEAR-MISS SPURS PUSH FOR HIV BILL
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amAn NYPD officer and his wife are the driving forces behind a bill that gives panicked cops, firefighters and medics who have been exposed to HIV access to tests that...
GOOD FOR GANDER - BOOZE BARON SELLS GREY GOOSE FOR $2B
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amMeet New York's newest billionaire - and the Grey Goose that laid a golden egg. Sidney Frank - an 84-year-old liquor magnate who survived a sex-harassment scandal and still jogs,...
'OOPS'LESS OPS - RULES AIM TO PREVENT HOSPITAL BLUNDERS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA simple "X marks the spot" will no longer cut it in operating rooms. Under a sweeping new mandate to wipe out cases in which doctors cut the wrong body...
CON ED DODGES A STRIKE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amCon Edison and union negotiators narrowly avoided a strike by 8,600 workers after reaching a tentative agreement early yesterday. Utility Workers Local 1-2 spokesman Steve Mangione said the new contract...
BOOZE & DRUG CRASH - GIRL, 14, HURT
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA maniac driver who ran over a 14-year-old girl was drinking vodka and injecting heroin before he began his Queens rampage, law-enforcement sources said. Richard Shropshire, 58, confessed to his...
BASKING IN THE LOVE OF FAMILY AND THE 'THROWS' OF VICTORY
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amON the 100th pitch, José Contreras felt a small tug of pain crawl up his forearm, shook his hand, tried to shoo the ache away, couldn't. So this was how...
NATO OKS AID PLAN FOR IRAQ SECURITY FORCES
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amNATO leaders agreed yesterday to take a bigger military role in Iraq as President Bush arrived in Turkey for a summit and declared the alliance was poised to "meet the...
HAMPTONS DIARY
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amSOME like to party - some don't. Father and stepson Barry Diller and Alex von Furstenberg hit Shelter Island for a lively AIDS benefit at Sunset Beach Saturday afternoon -...
9/11 PANEL REPORT TO BLAME CIA
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe 9/11 commission has concluded that the Sept. 11 attacks were probably preventable - and CIA lapses are primarily to blame, a new report said yesterday. The bipartisan panel, appointed...
$OCKUMENTARY
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBush bashing equaled boffo box office as Michael Moore's incendiary "Fahrenheit 9/11" rocketed to No. 1 - with a massive $21.8 million take over the weekend. The R-rated flick, which...
FOUR CITY COPS HURT IN CRASH
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amFour cops were hurt yesterday when their patrol cars collided in East Harlem, police said. The officers were responding to a report of a man with a gun when one...
L.I. MAN IN KNIFE-SLAY OF WOMAN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA Brooklyn woman was stabbed to death yesterday during a furious argument with an older man in his Long Island apartment, police said. April Henderson, 35, was found by cops...
HIGH-ROLLER DIVA - MARTHA OUT 'BLADING IN HAMPTONS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amShe may not skate free of a prison sentence, but that didn't stop carefree Martha Stewart from strapping on pair of Rollerblades in the Hamptons this weekend. The diva of...
2G TRASH BIN LADEN WITH ANTI-BOMB PROTECTION
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amA growing number of bomb-proof garbage bins have sprouted at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in an effort to thwart any plans by terrorists to put explosive devices inside...
RUNNING ON EMPTY - METS CAN'T REPEAT BASE-PATH FEATS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amMET NOTES Push the tempo. Be aggressive. Run when you can. That's been the Mets' baserunning mantra recently. But yesterday it backfired. After Saturday's three-steal afternoon, the Mets ran themselves...
YEAH, DOLEAC MAY BE BACK
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amWith Thursday being the first time Isiah Thomas is allowed to phone Rasheed Wallace and Kobe Bryant, the Knick president has tried to downplay his impending bid for the league's...
TRACH KEEPS HEAD UP
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amWhen Steve Trachsel takes a look at his pitching line from yesterday - seven innings, six runs - he won't hang his head in shame or bemoan how poor his...
WHAT HYPOCRITES!
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amRALEIGH - On Friday, as he has for the last nine months, Gary Bettman ridiculed the Oct. 1 proposal presented by the NHL Players' Assn., dismissing it publicly as a...
DEALING KITTLES KEY TO NETS' PLAN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amUnless the Nets find a taker for Kerry Kittles and his $10 million salary - and quickly - the team's Big Three could quickly become the Big Two. Nets CEO...
DONE IN BY DEREK - AGAIN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBENNY Agbayani hit a two-run double in the eighth for a thrilling 4-2 Game 3 win that put the Mets back in the 2000 World Series for all of one...
HIDEKI SIMPLY GRAND AGAIN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe Japanese word for "coincidence" is "guzen," while the term "deja vu" needs no translation. Hideki Matsui's grand slam in yesterday's doubleheader opener had an eerily familiar feel to Subway...
FLAHERTY A FLASH OF BRILLIANCE BEHIND PLATE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amJohn Flaherty took control when the opportunity arose, and then he yielded when he needed to. You might not realize it from today's box score, but the efforts of the...
EX-KNICK BARNETT LEADS NEW LEAGUE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe release says there will be a press conference Wednesday to announce former Knick great Dr. Dick Barnett will be named the commissioner of the Worldwide Basketball Association and you...
METS MOAN ABOUT WIDE STRIKE ZONE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amIt's safe to say the Mets did not love home plate ump Brian Runge's strike zone yesterday. In their 8-1 loss to the Yankees, several Mets griped or used their...
BRINKLEY KEEPS CYCLONES LOOSE
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amDante Brinkley saw his teammates celebrating and wanted to contribute. So he sneaked into the Brooklyn clubhouse to prepare a surprise for fellow Cyclone Ambiorix Concepcion, whose ninth-inning single beat...
GIAMBI GETTING 'DYSSED'
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amYANKEE NOTES Jason Giambi, suffering from dysentery since June 7, wanted to wait until today to undergo blood and urine tests and have a full physical, but the Yankees sent...
RANGERS BELIEVE THEY HAVE PIECES
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amRALEIGH - This weekend was the easy part. Now comes the challenge. Now the Rangers have the responsibility to actually develop the young men they drafted here into NHL players....
JOSE CAN SEE CLEARLY - WITH FAMILY ON HAND, CONTRERAS BAFFLES METS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 1: Yankees 8 - Mets 1 "With my family here, it gave me motivation to get my team a victory." -JOSE CONTRERAS If George Steinbrenner knew having Jose Contreras'...
DEREK'S A DAGGER, AGAIN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBENNY Agbayani hit a two-run double in the eighth for a pulsating 4-2 Game 3 win that put the Mets back in the 2000 World Series for all of one...
NO DEALS IMMINENT, BOSS SAYS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amFreddy Garcia and Carlos Beltran are off the market, and Yankee owner George Steinbrenner promised no knee-jerk reactions . . . yet. Between a two-game sweep of the Mets yesterday,...
SHEFF PLAYS THROUGH THE PAIN
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amGary Sheffield's left shoulder is cranky, and so was Sheffield by the fourth inning of last night's Mets-Yankees Game 2. The Yankee slugger, who is playing through bursitis, was ejected...
YANKS' BROOMS BELT METS - CAPTURE BOTH ENDS OF TWINBILL
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe Yankees don't always beat the Mets but that's the way to wager. Hours after Jose Contreras reduced their wood to dust in the first of two games yesterday, the...
KAZ-ARDOUS EXPERIMENT
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amSTOP the madness, Mets. The way this team is currently constituted, you are not in the NL East race. With the lineups you threw at the Yankees yesterday and last...
YANKEE OFFER FAILS; CHISOX GET GARCIA
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amBased on center fielder Carlos Beltran going from Kansas City to Houston last week and pitcher Freddy Garcia moving from Seattle to the White Sox yesterday, it's obvious what the...
BRINKLEY'S SPIRIT CAN'T CARRY 'CLONES
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amScrappers 6 - Cyclones 5 The enthusiasm that defines Dante Brinkley seeps out at times like this. It's the third inning of last night's 6-5 Cyclones' home loss to Mahoning...
JOSE CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW - CONTRERAS QUIETS METS
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amGAME 1: Yankees 8 - Mets 1 If George Steinbrenner knew having Jose Contreras' family in America would have turned the inconsistent hurler into a confident strike-throwing freak, The Boss...
AMAZIN'S REFUSED TO MAKE WRIGHT MOVE FOR GARCIA
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amThe Mets could have beaten out the White Sox for Freddy Garcia. But they wouldn't part with David Wright. The Mets had interest in acquiring Garcia to shore up their...
METS STUNG BY DOUBLE-DIP
June 28, 2004 | 4:00amWhat it comes down to is net versus nature. The net of the Mets' weekend series vs. the Yankees wasn't bad. They earned one victory and two losses, which is...